During the month of November, Amscot Financial asked customers to contribute $1 to their local education foundation to provide support for students and teachers when school budgets fall short and tax dollars won’t allow.  With additional contributions from the company’s founder and Tampa-based corporate office, 2019 contributions totaled $162,688.25. Combined with eleven years of previous one-month campaigns, the total raised reached over $1.5 million.

“This campaign clearly resonates with both our customers and our associates,” said Ian MacKechnie, founder and CEO of Amscot Financial.  “The fact that the funds are used for unmet needs and to help individual students means a great deal to all of us.”

“Amscot’s Just-a-Dollar campaign is crowd-sourcing for a great cause: Helping meet the needs of vulnerable public school students in Florida,” said Mary Chance, president of the Consortium of Florida Education Foundations (CFEF).  The CFEF works with Amscot Financial to coordinate campaign fund distributions among their 20 benefiting local education foundations in the company’s current service territory.