NPR story inspires $50,000 donation to student housing program

A Colorado housing initiative run by Lutheran campus ministry, LuMin, received $50,000 from a couple who had economic hardship in college after they heard a solutions story about the organization on NPR. The story, by Emma VandenEinde, was originally broadcast on KUNC, a local public radio station in Greeley, Colorado. LuMin is an organization in Fort Collins next to Colorado State University that subsidizes housing-insecure or homeless students. The donors who had no financial assistance during their college years wrote a letter explaining their donation to LuMin and ended by saying they “would not have known about your organization had it not been for the piece NPR did.”