While city officials are working to rebuild their towns, residents are in need of basic necessities, like food, water, pillows, blankets, and more. So Matthew Thomas and James Ries got to work.
When news channels began to air footage of the tornado-ravaged communities in Western Kentucky, Lyndsay LaPointe and her husband did what most of did - they shook their heads, mourned for the lives lost, and wished that they could do something to help.
The state of Wyoming's matching program played a big role in the fundraising effort, realizing an additional $20.3 million that otherwise would not have been available to UW.