TEXT ORANGE TO 85944 TO DONATE $10
Salt Lake City, UT August 18, 2011 – Xerox, Marriott, FranklinCovey, Wells Fargo, ARIIX, Chiquita/Fresh Express and The University of Utah have joined the nonprofits Orange Duffel Bag Foundation (ODBF) and EveryChild USA to raise $1 million to help Utah’s youth aging out of foster care. Led by Brent Jorgensen, co-founder of ARIIX, businesses throughout the state are asking their employees and all Utahns to TEXT ORANGE to 85944 to donate $10 to help youth aging out of foster care with life plan coaching and other essential items to support their pursuit of higher education, positive goals and self-reliance.

"During this back-to-school season, every person connected to the State of Utah is asked to help at least one foster care youth in Utah. Pull out your cell phone and give $10 by texting ORANGE to 85944 and then say YES when prompted," asks Jorgensen during the corporate launch of the Orange Duffel Bag Foundation and EveryChild USA campaign. Jorgensen, an ODBF Board member who fostered 21 teens, kicked off the campaign with a $10,000 donation from ARIIX, a Bounty, Utah-based multi-level marketer of health products. He is urging other business executives to join him in making matching donations.

“Meeting the first kids in our first ODBF training program was an awakening for me, as they shared their stories and the reality of their...