North Texas Giving Day is the largest community-wide giving event in the Nation and includes Fannin County.
Now in its 17th year, NorthTexasGivingDay.org continues to expand as a one-stop shop for supporting our local community every day of the year through cause campaigns, matching fundraisers, group giving events, and nonprofit-led fundraising efforts.
Thanks to help from generous givers and sponsors, Communities Foundation of Texas covers all transaction and technology fees, ensuring 100% of each donation made on the site goes to nonprofits in more than 25 cause areas across 20 North Texas counties, all year long. In 2024, the program connected over 3,200 local nonprofits with givers, raising more than $70 million.
This year’s North Texas Giving Day culminates on Thursday, September 18, 2025. Giving through the website for the 2025 event opens on Thursday, August 28.
In Bonham, a Community Celebration will be held on Thursday, Sept 18 from 6-9 pm at the Creative Arts Center at 200 W 5th Street. Garden gates will open at 6 pm. Admission is free.
Credit Union of Texas will bring their food truck and be giving away free burgers and hot dogs. Neighbors Place Winery will be set up and selling glasses of wine. Local nonprofits participating in North Texas Giving Day will be there too, letting folks know how they make a difference in our community.
At 7 pm, The Buzz Andrews Band will entertain everyone with live music. Buzz has been playing all over North Texas for over 20 years. From Johnny Cash to Merle to Sting to Grand Funk Railroad to Clapton – no one does it better! He and his band will entertain your socks off and send you home with a huge grin.
Nonprofits in attendance at the Community Celebration will include Canine Karma Rescue Center, Creative Arts Center, Fannin County Children’s Center, Fannin County Family Crisis Center, Feeding Fannin, Open Arms Shelter and Paws for Progress of Ladonia. It’s not too late to join – if your non-profit is an official participant of North Texas Giving Day and you serve Fannin County, you are invited to join the celebration. Contact Sandy Barber for details at (903) 640-2196 or director@creativeartscenterbonham.org.
BECOME A SUPER FAN
We are looking for folks who want to become Super Fans for the Creative Arts Center. You can do this be creating your own fundraising page using the North Texas Giving Day website.
If you create your page by Sept 4, your name will be in a drawing hosted by the organizers of North Texas Giving Day. They will draw ten names and give those folks an extra $1,000 in matching funds!
If you create a page by Sept 4, your name will also go in a drawing hosted by our center. In our drawing, the winner will get their choice of an art center t-shirt from our gift shop. This includes our sunflower shirts designed by Chris Cravens, our mural shirt designed by Caroline Blackwell, or our newest shirt which will be revealed very soon in honor of our upcoming 25th anniversary!
HOW TO CREATE YOUR PAGE:
- Go to Creative Arts Center | North Texas Giving Day )
- Click the “FUNDRAISE” button (center of the page, next to Donate)
- Follow the directions – upload a photo, add your personal story, set your own goal, etc.
- Click the PUBLISH button (left hand side)
- Share the link to your personal page by email, text and/or social media – and ask your friends and family to join you in donating to the arts.
- Ask Sandy if you have questions – call (903) 640-2196 or email her at director@CreativeArtsCenterBonham.org