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About Us
The Goodfellow Fund
501c(3) Non-Profit Organization
How Goodfellow Charities, Inc. began…
Goodfellow Charities, Inc. began in 1914,
when a Sioux City Journal reporter spotted two underprivileged children crying over a storefront Christmas display. According to stories handed down by generations of the paper's staffers, the journalist bought each of the children a pair of warm mittens and rallied the paper's staff to hold a Christmas party for all Sioux City children in need. The gathering was held at the former National Theater on Fifth Street, and several hundred children attended to receive gifts.
Board of Directors
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