A couple minutes of your time and one vote.

That’s all the West Michigan Hockey Youth Foundation (better known as the Griffins Youth Foundation) is asking of you to help it become one of 196 charities nationwide that will win a grant ranging from $10,000 to $250,000 through the Chase Community Giving contest.

If you have a Facebook account, simply click here by Sept. 19 and submit your vote for the West Michigan Hockey Youth Foundation.

How significant is your vote? We’re just getting started on our campaign, but we’re only:
• 414 votes behind 196th place and a $10,000 grant that will completely pay for 17 underprivileged kids to play hockey this winter – ice time, equipment, uniforms, everything!;
• 723 votes behind 96th place and a $20,000 grant that will pay for hockey for 35 kids;
• 1,324 votes behind 46th place and a $50,000 grant that will pay for hockey for 87 kids;
• 4,284 votes behind 11th place and a $100,000 grant that will pay for hockey for 175 kids;
• 10,567 votes behind 1st place and a $250,000 grant that will fully fund the program for one season (and then some), benefitting more than 350 kids!

Please share the link above with all your family, friends, co-workers and social networks via email and your Facebook and Twitter pages. Just think of the impact that 10,834 votes – one for every fan at a sold-out Griffins game at Van Andel Arena – would have on the foundation and the lives of hundreds of deserving kids in West Michigan.

Please vote today, share your enthusiasm and help us score a huge goal!

Thank you,

The Grand Rapids Griffins