Creston High School Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA) is sponsoring the second annual penny war competition to raise awareness and money for the March of Dimes charity.

The March of Dimes was created by Franklin D. Roosevelt and first known as the National Foundation of Infantile Paralysis. Roosevelt started the foundation because of his personal struggle with polio. The foundation was able to provide research for vaccines that eventually erased the polio epidemic in the United States.

Because the first mission had been accomplished, the March of Dimes changed its focus to preventing birth defects and infant mortality, forming the foundation we know today. All chapters of FBLA, nationwide, give to the March of Dimes charity.