Thrivent Financial Members Give $1 Million

Members of Thrivent Financial for Lutherans recently voted on where to distribute $1 million among 10 national charities through a new program called Thrivent Choice. Funds were distributed to the organizations based on the percentage of votes they received.  Organizations, and the total funds they received, were:

  • LCMS World Relief and Human Care:  $192,122
  • Lutheran Disaster Response:  $147,242
  • ELCA World Hunger:  $145,345
  • Habitat for Humanity International:  $114,212
  • LCMS World Mission:  $112,315
  • Feed My Starving Children:  $99,465
  • American Heart Association:  $67,854
  • WELS Committee on Relief:  $57,281
  • WELS Humanitarian Aid Committee:  $32,987
  • Lutheran Malaria Initiative:  $31,176

A total of 150,199 members voted in the inaugural Thrivent Choice Voting Event. The voting took place April 19 – May 21, 2010.  Thrivent Financial will launch a second aspect of Thrivent Choice later this summer called Choice Dollars.  Here, eligible benefit members will be able to help direct funds to thousands of Lutheran non-profit organizations, including Lutheran congregations.  Eligibility for this program will be based on benefit members’ involvement in Thrivent Financial through their fraternal benefit society product ownership and/or Thrivent Financial volunteer leadership.  In 2009, Thrivent Financial provided $113 million to help congregations, communities and nonprofit organizations. Thrivent Choice is one of many ways that Thrivent Financial gives back.

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