Metallica Donates $40,000 to Minnesota Organization Helping the Homeless
Insanely successful thrash metal band Metallica, through their charity initiative All Within My Hands, made a donation to Minnesota’s largest organization serving people and families experiencing homelessness following the band’s recent pair or performances in Minneapolis on the M72 tour. The band made a donation of $40,000 to the organization People Serving People, which, in Metallica’s terms, is the cost of like a really nice lunch. So please join us as we celebrate a band—who, according to Metal Shout, have a combined net worth of $1 billion—for making a donation that represents 0.004% of that net worth.
The organization posted a thank you to Metallica on Monday on their Instagram with a caption that made a really tortured reference to a Metallica song that’ll make you say “Bless their hearts, they tried”:
“Wow! Talk about Give me fuel, give me fire! @Metallica just invested $40,000 through their @allwithinmyhandsfoundation to People Serving People when they visited Minneapolis. Gifts like this make programs like financial literacy, emergency assistance, and high-quality childcare possible at People Serving People.
“Thank you, Metallica, for fueling our work, firing up our community, and helping the families at our shelter achieve their desires!”
In an interview with a local NBC affiliate in the area, KARE 11, People Serving People CEO Hoang Murphy said that the donation brings them closer to their goal of raising $1.2 million by the end of the year. At this point I’d like to point out, for absolutely no reason whatsoever, that $1.2 million is 0.12% of Metallica’s net worth. Just a fun fact is what that is.
Speaking to KARE 11, Murphy gave an idea of some of the things the organization plans to do with the money:
“We serve over 370 folks everyday through our 99 shelter rooms through our downtown site, and then recently, as of May, we are also serving 16 families over at St. Anne’s place. Of the 370 guests that we have, the majority of them are children, so about 270 of them, so two-thirds of folks, are under 18.”
In addition to that, Murphy indicated some of the money may be used to fix some windows at the aforementioned St. Anne’s place, as well as the playground and court.
So while it’s mildly cool that Metallica tossed some of their chump change to a good cause, the real heroes here are the good people over at People Serving People for the great work they do.
If you would like to make your own donation to help the mission of People Serving People, you can do so at their website.
