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We are thrilled to announce the 2024 Champions for Charity campaign winners.
Humane Society of Marion County
Soldiers Freedom Outdoors
Florida Kids Helping Kids
These incredible nonprofits will receive over $10,000 in promotional support from K-Country, Wind-FM, and 352today.
We are so excited to be working with these amazing organizations in 2024!
Thank you to everyone who nominated a charity this year. Here is the full list of charities nominated for Champions for Charity 2024.
| Amvets post 444 Williston |
| Band of Brothers |
| Champagne’s Critter Sanctuary |
| Christmas Dream Machine, Lake City, FL |
| Combat Veterans to careers |
| Crime Stoppers of Citrus County |
| Florida Kids helping Kids Inc. |
| Food4Kids of Alachua County |
| Fraternal Order of Eagles Arie 4385 |
| Girls Place Inc |
| Hands of Mercy Elsewhere |
| Helping Hands Food Pantry |
| Hoffmeyer Animal Rescue |
| Hospice of Marion County |
| Humane Society of Marion County |
| Junior League of Ocala |
| Kimberly’s Center for Child Protection |
| Leesburg Humane Society |
| Loving Lois Rescue |
| Masked Miracles Inc |
| Nadi Om Wellness |
| Open Hands Animal Rescue |
| Operation Catnip |
| Outreach Autism Services Network |
| Quality of Life Rehab and Foster |
| Second Chance Rescue and Rehoming |
| Sheltering Hands |
| Skip Over Trouble Horse Rescue |
| Soldiers Freedom Outdoors |
| The refuge at Jumper Creek |
| The Rock Program |
| VOCAL |
| VOSH Southeast |
| W.A.N.D.A. Cares Rescue |
| We Who Care |
| Wounded Warrior Umpire Academy |
| Ziggy’s Haven Bird Sanctuary, Inc. |
We’re back for another year of Champions for Charity!
In just one year, we will give three charities over $30,000 in promotional support from K-Country, our sister station Wind-FM, and 352today.
Voting is officially underway to make your voice heard and support a local charity that helps children, animals, or veterans!
Voting is open through the 31st!
The Champions for Charity promotion will be broken into four phases: Submission Phase, Voting Phase, Charity Selection & Promotion Implementation. Champions for Charity Submission Phase, Voting Phase, and Charity Selection will occur on 12/4/2023-12/31/2023.
Submission Phase: December 4, 12:00am through December 17, 11:59pm. Listeners can submit a charity to be nominated for the Champions for Charity promotion at www.937kcountry.com/contests. All nominees must have headquarters within 75 miles of the NCFM offices at 1901 E Fort King Street, Ocala, Florida 34471. Each nominee will be screened by a North Central Florida Media Group staff member and must be a 501(c)(3) organization. The nominees must be considered an organization that helps children, animals, or veterans, all others will be removed from the nominee list. Charities that won the Champions for Charity contest in 2022 or 2023 are not eligible to win the Champions for Charity contest in 2024.
North Central Florida Media Group has the ultimate discretion over which nominees are approved to appear as nominees to be on the contest form and which nominees are selected as finalists. We will make all reasonable efforts to contact the charity within the limits of the Charity Selection phase. The order in which each charity is picked to receive their multimedia campaign will be randomly selected by North Central Florida Media Group.
One nomination/entry per charity. Submitting more than one entry per person per charity will invalidate all entries by that contestant. Any entry submitted on behalf of another individual or using another person’s email address or name will be disqualified and ineligible to claim any prize. Any attempt by any participant to obtain more than the stated number of entries allowed by using same, multiple/different email addresses, identities, or any other methods void that participant’s entries and that participant may be disqualified. In the event of a dispute as to any on-line registration, the authorized account holder of the e-mail address used to register will be deemed to be the registrant and he/she must be eligible according to these Official Rules. No mechanically reproduced or automated entries permitted. Use of any automated system to participate is prohibited and will result in disqualification and all such entries will be deemed void.
This contest is being run concurrently and simultaneously with radio stations in Ocala/Gainesville, Florida, associated with North Central Florida Media Group. Charities will be competing against each other for the same prize. Three prizes will be awarded to all who are nominated through both stations: WYND-FM and WOGK-FM.
Voting Phase: December 18, 12:00am through December 31, 11:59pm. During this phase, voting will be open to the public. One vote per person, per day. Nominated charities are encouraged to share their nomination from the K-Country website to obtain more votes.
Listeners can vote once per day during the voting round. Voting is limited to one vote per verified email address. If an entrant receives irregular votes from the same user or users, including but not limited to, votes generated by a robotic, programmed, script, macro, other automated means or other source, North Central Florida Media Group reserves the right to disqualify the entrant in its sole discretion.
Charity Selection Phase: At the end of this phase, the THREE charities who have gathered the most online votes will be notified by phone before January 5th, 2024 as charities selected for the Champions for Charity Promotion. In the event of a tie, it is up to the discretion of North Central Florida Media to make any final decisions
Promotion Implementation Phase: Each of the three winning charities will be given one three-month period of the year, randomly selected, for their multimedia campaign. The three campaigns will run between March 1, 2024, to December 31, 2024.
Before January 5th around 9am, the top three final charities will be decided by the most number votes collected via online voting, open to the public. The winning charities will be contacted by phone and awarded the prize. This contest is being run concurrently and simultaneously with radio stations in Ocala/Gainesville, Florida, associated with North Central Florida Media Group. Listeners of each station will be competing against each other for the same prize. The three prizes will be awarded between all who register through both stations: WYND-FM and WOGK-FM.
Prizes will be awarded to the three final charities during the Promotion Implementation phase, 3/1-12/31. The prizes will be “awarded” during each randomly selected quarter that the charity is chosen for.
Of the nominated charities the three with the most votes will be the winners of the Champions for Charity promotion. Each of the top three charities will receive the following:
- 3 Facebook posts: 1 on Wind-FM, 1 on K-Country, 1 on 352today
- 2 newsletter inclusions: 1 to Wind-FM’s VIP Club & 1 to the K-Country Krew
- 200 PSAs: 100 to run on Wind-FM, 100 to run on K-Country
- Booth space at the North Central Florida Outdoor Expo
- Home Page Interview
- Feature on 352today
Total approximate retail value: $11,895
We will make reasonable efforts to contact the three winning charities within 30 days after winning.
WOGK-FM contests are open to all eligible Florida residents 18 or older have not won anything on WOGK-FM in the past 30 days or any prize valued at $600 or more in the past 6 months. Only one winner per household is permitted within 30 days after a household has a winner. Any prize awarded to an ineligible listener will be deemed null and void, and an alternate eligible winner may be named.
Employees of WOGK-FM, North Central Florida Media Group, and its ultimate parent company, Saga Communications, Inc., their advertising agencies, affiliates, contest sponsors, employees and immediate families of each, and employees of all media of mass communications within a one-hundred-mile radius of WOGK-FM’s main studio are not eligible to win any contest. Immediate families include the spouse, great-grandparents, grandparents, parents, brothers, sisters, children, grandchildren, and great- grandchildren of the employee and his/her spouse. This also includes individuals from whom the employee is current legal guardian.
All decisions of WOGK-FM are final and shall be binding in all respects. Entry into this contest constitutes permission to use the name or likeness of each prize winner for advertising, trade, and publicity purposes without prior approval and without additional compensation.
No charity can win twice in a 12-month time frame. No purchase necessary. Prize is not transferable or redeemable for cash. Winners will be responsible for all applicable state and federal taxes. WOGK-FM’s sole responsibility will be to award the prize. WOGK-FM will have no further responsibility in connection with the prize if the prize winner, for any reason, cannot or decides not to use any of the prize.
General Contest Rules also apply and can be found HERE.