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Press Releases
CFES Kicks Off 2011 Help Your Neighbor Fund Campaign
Drive to keep Help Your Neighbor campaign alive
April 1, 2011
The Community Foundation of the Eastern Shore
announced today that the Help Your Neighbor Fund that has been so
generously supported in this community is unfortunately, running low and the Foundation
is asking the community for assistance.
The Help
Your Neighbor Fund was initiated by the Community Foundation in response to the
dramatically increasing need for assistance required by local families and
individuals who have been adversely impacted by the economy and overwhelmed
traditional assistance programs.
Since its inception in
2008, the Help Your Neighbor Fund has provided $63,500 in emergency assistance to thousands
of Lower Eastern Shore families and individuals to meet basic needs.
The Fund has provided
assistance for utility bills, food and medical prescriptions to families and
seniors in Somerset, Wicomico, and Worcester Counties who need it most. More than 30 grants have been awarded to
small local nonprofit organizations, such as Helping Hands, Worcester G.O.L.D.,
and Christian Shelter with a proven capacity to assure financial assistance
gets to the neediest families in the area.
“It is only through
invaluable partnerships and generous individuals and businesses that we can continue
to make strides in the Lower Eastern Shore,” states Spicer Bell, President,
Community Foundation of the Eastern Shore.
Bell continues, “Just because we put our coats away for the season,
doesn’t mean we leave our neighbors out in the cold. Helping your neighbor is a year round commitment!”
More grants are pending based on the availability of money
in the Help Your Neighbor
Fund.
Please consider making a
donation today to the Help Your Neighbor Fund by visiting the
Community Foundation’s website at www.cfes.org/help, or calling the Foundation at
410-742-9911.
