All In, Together: Closing Out 2025 With Gratitude and Momentum

💙✨ All In, Together: Closing Out 2025 With Gratitude and Momentum ✨💙

As we close the books on 2025 and step into a new year, one thing shines brightly: community is the heartbeat of everything we do 🌟. The final weeks of the year were filled with generosity, collaboration, and purpose, perfectly capturing the spirit behind All-In Charitable Events & Services, Inc. and the ACES BARKery.

🙏 Gratitude That Fuels Our Mission

We are incredibly thankful to Cory Bahr and Enterprise/Taylor Charitable Entities for a generous $3,500 grant from the Enterprise Holdings Foundation 🎊. Cory’s continued support through Enterprise year after year is a beautiful example of employee-led philanthropy making a meaningful local impact.

The Enterprise Holdings Foundation supports thousands of nonprofits worldwide, focusing on health, education (especially underserved youth), disaster relief, and environmental initiatives. This support helps us expand inclusive employment, build life skills, and create meaningful opportunities for autistic adults and individuals with different abilities.

🤝Stronger Together Through Shared Purpose

Inclusion grows stronger when organizations lift one another. Grateful to stand alongside partners who share our mission and our heart. 💜

As the year came to a close, we were especially touched by the encouragement shared by our partners at Special Kneads and Treats 🧁.

Their message reflected a deep understanding of how meaningful employment builds confidence, independence, and dignity.

Like ACES and the ACES BARKery, Special Kneads and Treats believes in leading with heart and purpose. Ending the year alongside mission-aligned partners reminded us that inclusion grows stronger when organizations lift one another 💞. We are grateful to stand with partners like Special Kneads and Treats and Spectrum Autism Support Group, who share our commitment to opportunity, inclusion, and community care 🧩.

🎄 December Impact: Canned Food Drive Momentum

One of the most meaningful ways we wrapped up 2025 was through our Canned Food Drive, which continues through the end of Season 18. The generosity shown in December carried incredible momentum into the new year 💫.

So far, 5,142 pounds of food have been collected — every pound helping fill shelves at the Co-Op and support families during the holiday season. And the giving didn’t stop there: an entire van load of food was collected within the first two weeks of 2026!🥫

Last winter, nearly 13,000 pounds of food were distributed to local food banks. This year, we’re going ALL IN to surpass that milestone — and December set the tone beautifully.

💖Looking Ahead With Grateful Hearts

As 2025 comes to a close, we are deeply thankful for our donors, sponsors, volunteers, poker players 🃏, partners, and supporters who make this work possible. Every event hosted, every treat baked 🐾, and every donation given reflects a shared belief in dignity, inclusion, and compassion.

We enter 2026 encouraged, inspired, and full of gratitude.

Thank you for being ALL IN with us and for continuing to turn generosity into hope — one meaningful action at a time. 💙❤️💛