Call to Support the WDEL Feed A Friend Drive Now!
Today’s the day! The WDEL Feed a Friend Campaign is officially on starting at 9AM. Remember that this event raises funds for the Newark Area Welfare Committee, the Sunday Breakfast Mission, the Emmanuel Dining Room, YWCA Delaware and the St. Paul’s Church Outreach Center — all great organizations working to feed our neighbors who might need a little help. For each $11.50 you can pledge, these groups can buy a case of food — a great deal for the money. We’re encouraging all of DL’s readers and commenters to call WDEL — 302-478-9335 — during Al Mascitti’s show from 9 til 12 to pledge what you can to this worthy cause. If you can, please help spread the word to your Facebook friends and ask them to call in too. Here’s some suggested text if you want to cut and paste:
I just called WDEL to support the Feed A Friend Food Drive, helping the Newark Area Welfare Committee, the Sunday Breakfast Mission, the Emmanuel Dining Room, YWCA Delaware and the St. Paul’s Church Outreach Center buy food for our neighbors who might need some help this season. $11.50 buys a case of food for these organisations — call this morning at 302-478-9335 to pledge your support.
So start your War on Christmas right — call WDEL and pledge to help the Feed A Friend drive. SNAP has been cut and there are threats of more cuts, so please be generous!
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I just called!
This may be a topic for the open thread (not that I feel qualified to make that decision), but I’m wondering how DL contributors and readers feel about supporting organizations that provide wonderful services but have conservative (bigoted) policies and/or advocate against the liberal agenda. I raise this now because I see the Sunday Breakfast Mission is a beneficiary. I’ve worked in Human Services for 10+ years and know what a valuable resource SBM is to many of our neighbors, but have refused to support them since their leader Rev. Laymon was one of several religious leaders to sign on to an op-ed discouraging passage of the marriage equality bill in Delaware. I recognize he may draw a distinction between his work and faith, but I don’t think the general public does. I think signing on was inappropriate and choose not to support SBM because of it. Thoughts?
I absolutely get this. Absolutely. I want the charities I support to be broadly generous and inclusive, too. For this, though, I remind myself that there are five organizations who benefit from today’s giving and this money goes to buy food to support feeding Delawareans (you are buying food by the case here), not to political lobbying that we might not agree with.
That might be a rationalization, of course, but that’s gonna be part of today’s charity, I think.
John-
I agree w/ you in principle. However I have seen SBM’s work at the ground level. I’m an athiest & this is the one “faith based” organization I contribute to. The good they do (it is almost miraculous to witness a broken human being recover their sense of self, purpose, and humanity over the course of a year or so) far outweighs any undesirable position held by their leader.
I’ve met Rev Laymon a few times in the last 5 years. He is a good man. The good his organization does outweighs the Laymon’s political position in my mind. Your opinion may differ from mine, but I’d invite you to volunteer at SBM (preferably not at Thanksgiving or Xmas-they are overwhelmed w/ volunteers during the holiday season) and witness their works for yourself.
Don’t contribute if SBM’s values are not in line w/ your own. But contribute to something. There are many secular organizations that can use whatever time or money you can give.