CleanRite Cleaning Service Launches 2nd Annual Giving Program
After much success last holiday season, Dawn Verhaeghe, owner of CleanRite Cleaning Service, has decided to launch the 2nd annual 12 Days of Giving Back. This means her cleaning crew will not receive the traditional 12 Days of Christmas gifts. Instead, they will experience the blessing of giving back for the 12 Days of Christmas.
“One night, when I couldn’t sleep, the idea of Giving Back 2024 came to mind,” Dawn says. “How it’s more important to give back than to receive. How sometimes in life you have something that has touched you or your family in some way, shape, or form. Then leaving behind that chapter that forever touched your heart and leaves behind the memories (bad or good). When you have always said, ‘If I had the extra funds, I would donate to this cause because it means so much to me,’ now is that time. It was important for me to receive some feedback from the CleanRite Crew and how they thought our first season went. As a team, we all agreed it was GREAT and could not wait to pick our nonprofit organizations for this holiday season!”
The process started when Dawn sent a text to each crew member in October stating, “This year I am not doing the 12 Days of Christmas. Instead, we are going to bless 12 Days of Nonprofit Organizations within the 60-mile radius we serve.”
She told the crew to submit their photo and a short explanation of why their chosen organization was important to them. Crew members needed to provide the organization’s address and contact information, and each was allotted $200 to donate — either to one nonprofit or split between two. Each selected organization receives the donation along with a letter explaining that they were chosen by a CleanRite staff member to receive this blessing.
Below are the nonprofit organizations and the staff members who selected them for the 2025 holiday season:
Day 1 – Neighborhood Center — Linda Baker-Houin
Day 2 – Bread of Life Community Food Pantry — Pat Pranger
Day 3 – Family Christian Development Center — Melanie Larrison
Day 4 – United Way of Marshall County — Rebekah Bierly
Day 5 – Zac Mago Foundation — Jayce Rizek
Day 6 – Community Foundation — Manda King
Day 7 – Bread of Life Community Food Pantry & Big Country Predator Exposure — Deb Leake
Day 8 – Christian Community Food Pantry — Sherry Hagenow
Day 9 – Bread of Life Community Food Pantry — Patricia Koch
Day 10 – Heartland Animal Rescue — Aiden McCray
Day 11 – Blessings in a Backpack — Claire Tanner
Day 12 – Zac Mago Foundation — Seth Verhaeghe
Congratulations to all organizations! For more details about why each nonprofit was chosen and for donation information, visit CleanRite Cleaning Service, Inc. on Facebook.
