Pay It Forward Archives

Pay It Forward: Motley Crew Cat Lounge

May 10, 2023 3:24 PM Todd Kunz

A local animal rescue organization is in its infancy, but is already making a…

Pay It Forward: Sandcreek Middle School Zambia Fund

April 12, 2023 3:52 PM Todd Kunz

A local middle school student body helps other students in need a half a world…

Pay It Forward: PTSD Veteran Athletes

March 8, 2023 3:19 PM Todd Kunz

This nonprofit helps veterans who are struggling with PTSD and other depression challenges when they return home from war, by getting them out into…

Pay It Forward: Rigby Senior Citizen

February 8, 2023 1:39 PM Todd Kunz

A local senior center goes beyond the building and reaches out into the surrounding area with a Meals on Wheels program and a food distribution…

Pay It Forward: Idaho Period Project

January 11, 2023 4:03 PM Todd Kunz

This local nonprofit gets into our area schools to help young girls with Mother Nature, as they become young…

Pay It Forward: Madison Cares Secret Santa

December 14, 2022 3:20 PM Todd Kunz

A local Secret Santa program is setting out to make a difference this holiday season with your help.…

Pay It Forward: Bannock County Stuff the Stocking

November 9, 2022 3:10 PM Todd Kunz

This local fundraiser loads up the wallet to give kids a chance to shop for their families, with some of the heroes they look up to.…

Pay It Forward: The Blackfoot Tater Trot

October 12, 2022 3:16 PM Todd Kunz

This local fundraiser actually “runs” to help a community dinner table and provide scholarships every…

Pay It Forward: Bingham County Senior Citizen Center

September 14, 2022 3:27 PM Todd Kunz

This local nonprofit takes care of our seniors in more ways than…

Pay It Forward: Heroes Defense

August 10, 2022 2:38 PM Todd Kunz

Heroes Defense is a nonprofit in Idaho Falls, Idaho that creates awareness and raises funds for local police, fire, and emergency personnel who risk…

Pay It Forward: Pocatello Senior Activity Center

July 13, 2022 2:32 PM Todd Kunz

Their mission is to take care of our elderly. The seniors need socialization and a healthy meal. Here’s how this place does…

Pay It Forward: The Village

June 8, 2022 2:41 PM Todd Kunz

The Village is a foster care closet in Blackfoot that serves foster children in 17 southeastern Idaho…

Pay It Forward: Idaho Falls Community Garden Association

May 11, 2022 2:54 PM Todd Kunz

A unique garden has three locations that rent plots to community gardeners who don’t have room for a garden where they…

Pay It Forward: Senior Project helping cancer patients

April 13, 2022 2:53 PM Todd Kunz

A young girl is helping others through her father’s cancer…

Pay It Forward: Bannock Feral Friends

March 9, 2022 2:54 PM Todd Kunz

A local woman claims Pocatello has a feral cat problem and her newly-formed group is on a mission to stabilize and control the…

Pay It Forward: Pure Hope Hygiene Pantry

February 9, 2022 2:32 PM Todd Kunz

A pantry that focuses solely on hygiene products for those in…

Pay It Forward: All Heart Women

January 12, 2022 2:36 PM Todd Kunz

A local woman came up with the idea that there is power in numbers. She started an organization to gather women together for one main purpose, to…

Pay It Forward: Shelley High School Food Pantry

December 8, 2021 2:54 PM Todd Kunz

Shelley Shares is the Shelly High School Food Pantry available 24/7 outside the school for students in need or those who left the house unprepared…

Pay It Forward: Benny’s Pantry

November 10, 2021 2:25 PM Todd Kunz

Most universities don’t have their own food pantry for those in need, but Eyewitness News 3 anchor Todd Kunz found one.…

Pay It Forward: The Jeremy Taylor School Lunch Project

October 13, 2021 3:31 PM Todd Kunz

A local DJ started a way to help payoff school lunch debt with the help of the surrounding…

Pay It Forward: Unbridled Hope Inc.

September 8, 2021 3:09 PM Todd Kunz

Treating mental and physical challenges through the touch and interaction of a…

Pay It Forward: Lemonade stand for house fire victims

August 11, 2021 3:01 PM Todd Kunz

This lemonade stands operated by kids is unique because all proceeds to go a family in…

Pay It Forward: Happyville Farm

July 14, 2021 2:54 PM Todd Kunz

This community garden in Idaho Falls grows healthy food for the community food basket with the help of…

Pay It Forward: 50 Yard Challenge

June 9, 2021 2:45 PM Todd Kunz

A local seventh grade girl wants to mow a lot of lawns this summer, but there’s a reason for…

Pay It Forward: Fort Hall Roar

May 12, 2021 5:43 PM Todd Kunz

This nonprofit is the voice for lost, missing, or neglected animals of the Fort Hall Reservation and surrounding…

Pay It Forward: YMCA Playground Upgrade

April 14, 2021 2:47 PM Todd Kunz

A local playground is set for a makeover, with your help. And a new addition will come to…

Pay It Forward: Growling Garden

March 10, 2021 3:28 PM Todd Kunz

A unique garden where all the work is meant to teach and all the food is meant to feed the community in…

Pay It Forward: Crocheting Beanies

February 10, 2021 4:03 PM Todd Kunz

A local woman saw a need and decided to do something about it with yarn and a…

Local nonprofit donates AED to area schools

January 22, 2021 3:17 PM Todd Kunz

A life-saving device is now in the hallways of another area school thanks to a local…

Pay It Forward: Rigby Police Department in a jam

January 13, 2021 3:53 PM Todd Kunz

The Rigby Police Department is holding a jam and jelly drive during the month of January 2021 and you can…

Pay It Forward: Clandestine Kringle

December 9, 2020 3:49 PM Todd Kunz

Donate or adopt a family for Christmas and Clandestine Kringle will take care of the…

Pay It Forward: First Christian Church

November 11, 2020 3:58 PM Todd Kunz

A church in Idaho Falls is filling the gap when the Idaho Falls Soup Kitchen had to temporarily shutdown due to COVID-19 safety…

Pay It Forward: Making Masks

October 14, 2020 4:21 PM Todd Kunz

A local woman loves to sow and her hobby currently is making face masks for individuals and…

Pay It Forward: Bikers Against Bullies

September 9, 2020 4:03 PM Todd Kunz

The Idaho Falls chapter of Bikers Against Bullies focuses solely on kids and teaching that it’s OK to be yourself, but also accept others as…

Pay It Forward: Steps To Joy

August 12, 2020 4:16 PM Todd Kunz

This public charity is licensed to provide social services with a bit of Bible study to aid in…

Pay It Forward: God’s Home of Compassion

July 8, 2020 3:48 PM Todd Kunz

A small local food pantry helps people meet the challenges of the COVID-19…

Pay It Forward – Soldiers of Hope

June 10, 2020 3:47 PM Todd Kunz

This awareness group says more people are overdosing and relapsing during the COVID-19 pandemic.…

Pay It Forward: Olivia’s Lemonade Stand

May 13, 2020 4:21 PM Todd Kunz

Olivia Smith and her brother Jack opened her lemonade stand for her birthday to collect food donations for The Salvation Army instead of having a…

Pay It Forward: D93 Internet Connectivity Fund for students in need

April 8, 2020 3:49 PM Todd Kunz

With school being conducted online, Bonneville School District #93 setup an Internet connectivity fund for donations to students in…

Pay It Forward: Community Youth in Action – LIV Teen Center

March 11, 2020 4:20 PM Todd Kunz

“Empowering the Voices of Our Youth Through Action and…

An AED donated to Hillview Elementary School in Ammon, Idaho.

Pay It Forward: People Against Impaired Driving

February 12, 2020 4:19 PM Todd Kunz

A young girl’s life was cut short by a tragic accident years ago. But out of that came the birth of a nonprofit that now saves the lives of…

Pay It Forward: Phoenix QRF

January 8, 2020 3:37 PM Todd Kunz

Veterans making sure no man or woman is left behind off the battlefield.…

The Michaud family performs their yearly Christmas Angels concert to collect toy donations for need families.

Pay It Forward: Christmas Angels concert

December 11, 2019 4:01 PM Todd Kunz

For 13 years, one local family has been performing at their yearly Christmas concert to entertain, but more importantly, to help the…

Pay It Forward: Thunder Ridge Freshman Student Council

November 13, 2019 5:30 PM Todd Kunz

A freshman student council looking for ways to serve, surprises local…

Pay It Forward: Team Han and the Wheeler family

October 10, 2019 12:29 AM Todd Kunz

Two Grid Kid fifth grade teams set the competition aside and became one for a family that lost their son to brain…

Pay It Forward: Caleb Hiatt and Thrivers’ Monster Mile Run

September 11, 2019 3:48 PM Todd Kunz

A young man’s mother died of breast cancer recently. Now he’s using her legacy to give back and help others who are fighting the same…

Pay It Forward: Amy Schmutz and Snake River Alliance Cancer Support Group

August 14, 2019 6:46 PM Todd Kunz

A local woman recently nominated her friend, who, she said, “makes a difference in this community and has touched many people’s…

Pay It Forward: Bear Lake Senior Center home-delivered meals

July 10, 2019 6:45 PM Todd Kunz

The Bear Lake Senior Community Center was most likely going to cutback or eliminate its home delivered meals program, but not just yet thanks to Pay…

Pay It Forward: Dad Speak

June 11, 2019 3:44 PM Todd Kunz

He turned his life around because of male influence and now he and his friend have created an organization to help other men be “good…

Pay It Forward: Penny war at Fox Hollow Elementary

May 8, 2019 6:40 PM Todd Kunz

An elementary school student council comes up with a penny war for a…

Pay It Forward: Idaho Gold Star Families Memorial Monument

April 11, 2019 3:39 PM Todd Kunz

A new memorial to honor the fallen and their families is being built in Bannock…

Pay It Forward: Community Suicide Prevention

March 13, 2019 8:37 PM Todd Kunz

A local group sees a need and formed a suicide prevention organization promoting education, support groups, training, and community…

Pay It Forward: Free haircuts for furloughed government workers

February 13, 2019 10:35 PM Todd Kunz

A young hair stylist offers free haircuts to helps government workers that were furloughed due to the partial government…

Pay It Forward: Coming Home Inc.

January 9, 2019 6:34 PM Todd Kunz

Our veterans sometimes return home with extra struggles. They can be physical or oftentimes unseen and emotional. That’s where the nonprofit…

Pay It Forward: Toys For Tots

December 12, 2018 3:32 PM Todd Kunz

Some kids struggle to have a Christmas. That’s where this organization comes…

UPDATE: Pay It Forward helps Pocatello Cycle deliver more than expected meals

November 21, 2018 8:31 PM Todd Kunz

The owners of Pocatello Cycle gave out more turkey dinners than they expected with the help of the Pay It Forward…

Pay It Forward: Pocatello Cycle

November 14, 2018 6:29 PM Todd Kunz

Twenty-five turkeys for 25 years in business, a way to help 25 families in need and say thank you to the…

Pay It Forward: P.A.W.S.

October 10, 2018 9:27 PM Todd Kunz

An organization that aims to rescue and rehabilitate animals can face challenges when caring for animals in…

Pay It Forward: Thunder Ridge Grid Kids Football Program

September 12, 2018 7:25 PM Todd Kunz

Starting a new grid kids football program from the turf up can be…

Pay It Forward: 4-H

August 8, 2018 6:24 PM Todd Kunz

4-H is America’s largest youth development organization. Nearly six million young people across the U.S. take part according to its…

Pay It Forward: Camp Hayden

July 11, 2018 3:24 PM Todd Kunz

A local couple lost their young son to a very rare disease, but out of heartbreak, a new purpose is…

Pay It Forward: Promise Ridge

June 13, 2018 6:20 PM Todd Kunz

A new emergency homeless shelter for families has opened in…

Pay It Forward: The Giving Cupboard

May 9, 2018 3:18 PM Todd Kunz

The food bank in Jefferson County gets a new name and is changing the way it is managed to better serve those in…

Pay It Forward: Coping with infant loss

April 11, 2018 9:17 PM Todd Kunz

She may be young, but she is already having a big impact at a local hospital and throughout the community and is a leading example at her middle…

Pay It Forward: Bucket Wishes

March 14, 2018 3:14 PM Todd Kunz

An organization that grants Bucket Wishes to the…

Pay It Forward: Canine Champions for Veterans

February 14, 2018 3:12 PM Todd Kunz

A nonprofit founded out of personal struggle is now an organization that helps provide trained service dogs for veterans who need…

Pay It Forward: Crocheting for kids and patients

January 11, 2018 10:10 PM Todd Kunz

Crocheting for a cause, one “lapghan” at a…

Pay It Forward: Shannon Wilker Foundation

December 13, 2017 3:08 PM Todd Kunz

A local foundation was formed by a husband, whose wife died from breast cancer in 2011. But KIDK Eyewitness News 3 got word that the foundation was…

Pay It Forward: Idaho Falls Community Food Basket

November 8, 2017 3:06 PM Todd Kunz

The holidays are approaching, so what better organization is there to Pay It…

Pay It Forward: Wildlife Pet Fund

October 11, 2017 3:05 PM Todd Kunz

A local woman holds the state and federal permits necessary to rehab birds of prey, and she pays for it all out of her own pocket with the help of…