RISE Hattiesburg Hot Air Balloon Festival

02/06/2024

We were blessed to have two amazing years of the RISE Hot Air Balloon Festival, and we are sad to inform you that we will not be having it a third year. We hope you will continue to support RISE in our future efforts to fundraise. We are thankful for every sponsor, volunteer, balloon pilot, crew member, vendor, entertainer, and guest who made our Festival possible, and we will cherish the happy memories made together. We will use this page to inform you of any new events RISE has in the future!
Thank you!

P.S. You have one last chance to buy any merchandise before we close the store!
https://www.risenonprofit.org/shop

10/13/2023

We love what this wonderful organization brings to Hattiesburg and we are so blessed by the support shown at the Festival to be able to bring in this much! Great job, Hattiesburg! 👏

“The generous will themselves be blessed, for they share their food with the poor.” (Proverbs 22:9)

Our friends from RISE recently held an incredible hot air balloon festival fundraiser! They allowed attendees to donate a canned good in lieu of an admission fee, then shared the collection among several local feeding programs. What a gracious, generous gift!

Guess how much food RISE delivered to the Edwards Street food pantry this week?? 1️⃣,0️⃣6️⃣2️⃣ pounds of nourishing food!!! 🙌

Our hearts are bursting with gratitude for the compassion of our RISE friends! God bless y’all, and congrats on a wonderful event! ❤️

10/06/2023

A few photos from tonight’s RISE Hot Air Balloon Festival recap party with our managers and staff! We are super thankful for these wonderful people and all of their hard work. Thanks to Merchants Foodservice for letting us use your facilities!

We also got to celebrate someone super special… happy birthday Jan Taylor Farve 🥳

10/04/2023

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10/04/2023

10/02/2023

We just now have the winner for the Couple's Contest! I know, we're late... Things got crazy and there were well over 1,000 comments to sort through. It took us a little longer than we thought! We used an app to randomly select the winner who followed the rules of the contest and we just want to say, CONGRATULATIONS Robin Greer! 🥳🥳🥳 This was by far the most popular giveaway post ever and we are so excited to meet the winner, you can message us or call our office (601)544-4855 to schedule an appointment to pick up your gift cards! We hope you enjoy this and let us know how it goes!!!

09/29/2023

CONGRATULATIONS!!! 🥳🥳🥳

Congratulations Ann Marie on winning the Diamond Pendant RISE Hattiesburg Hot Air Balloon Festival! 🎊🎈🎉♥️💙🎉🎊🎈

09/28/2023