Wade Leslie's Contact Details

Wade Leslie's Company Details

Iowa Giving Crew

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States • 2 Employees
Individual & Family Services

Our non-profit organization started from a prank back in November 2017. Someone had put a friend's contact information on Craigslist saying he was giving away free turkeys just before Thanksgiving - he was not. But our friend immediately received numerous phone calls inquiring about the free turkeys. Upon realizing there was a large need for something like this in our community, we gathered a group of local friends to actually raise some funds to give away meals that Thanksgiving. Since then we have grown exponentially each year, serving 650% more families in year three than in year one. In 2019, the Iowa Giving Crew was created as a non-profit to help fill the needs identified in the community to bring Thanksgiving dinners to the food insecure and expand our ability to serve the community in other ways.