“It's huge, especially this late in the year,” said Christa Shields, vice president of development for Special Olympics Wisconsin.Īlong with TODAY’S TMJ4’s Vince Vitrano, Shields visited a bingo session to thank players for participating. “Last year, for example, each of the charities, the random charities and the ones chosen by our media partners, each got a little over $35,000,” Saunders said. That pool rose to $1.1 million dollars in 2018.

In each special game, the winner takes half of money collected, and the other half goes into the charity pool to be donated. In every bingo session there's a Canal Street bingo game. “This wouldn't be possible if it weren't for our guests and our great bingo team. “It's all about our guests,” said Jay Saunders, public relations specialist for Potawatomi Hotel & Casino. In all, it will be 31 charities, with 20 chosen at random, who will each receive tens of thousands of dollars. That means Special Olympics is one of 11 non-profit groups guaranteed to share in the bingo windfall. TODAY’S TMJ4 was chosen as a media partner for this year’s event, and the station selected Special Olympics Wisconsin as its partner charity.

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The yearly event raises money through special bingo games, and in its first 25 years, it’s raised more than $19 million dollars for kids in southeast Wisconsin. MILWAUKEE - Potawatomi Hotel & Casino is getting set to drop more than $1 million on area charities in its annual Heart of Canal Street promotion.

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