News 6 viewers help raise $700,000 in school supplies for students and teachers in Central Florida

ORLANDO, Fla. – News 6 viewers helped raise $700,000 in school supplies for students and teachers in Osceola County and Orange County through a phone bank on Thursday.

Viewers donated $45,000 during the News 6 Gift For Teaching phone bank on Thursday.

Various matching grants from the money raised from the phone bank equate to $700,000 worth of supplies.

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The matching grants came from the following organizations:

• Addition Financial
• American College of Education
• The Bond Foundation
• Joe and Sarah Galloway Foundation

Todd Miner Law was partners with News 6 with the phone bank on Thursday.

Todd Miner and friends donated $13,000 during the event.