Thanks For The Support
Posted: September 26, 2014 Filed under: Diet- comedy | Tags: Food Bank Leave a comment
I just drove over to Raleigh and back in rush hour both ways and it was worth it. I had a big ten-minute slot on the Food Bank telethon. When I got there they were $444 away from reaching their first $10,000 milestone.
Thanks to my wonderful cousin, Ellen Underwood who called in a pledge from Florida and my hard working husband who donated online while he was on a conference call we made the goal. I got the pleasure of ringing the gong in celebration.
While I was in traffic my dear friends Susan Spratt and her husband David Tendler made a very generous donation. Susan is an endocrinologist and has been learning first hand how so many of her diabetic patients are living in houses completely void of any food. This lack of nutrition does not help people fight this deadly disease. Helping people have good for them food is a big priority at the Food Bank. Thanks David and Susan your donation will provide 2,500 meals to people right here.
It is never too late for you to help. The telethon is going on until noon tomorrow. Log on to www.foodbank24.org to see it. There is a donate now button right on that page and you can donate with a credit card, or call the phone number 919-865-3077. Tell them Dana sent you. I know that Nancy McGuffin at Chapel Hill Needlepoint was donating and thanks for that! Anyone else who gives will get a big call out of thanks from me on the blog.
If you are an insomniac I suggest you log in at the 4:00 am hour. Food Bank Social Media Darling Molly Rivera will be doing an hour-long segment on cheese. She is from Wisconsin and really knows her topic. Her dad also sent a huge box of cheese curds for her to use during her show. Really, I promise it will be better than reruns of The Andy Griffith Show and I say this with the utmost love for Don Knots.
I’m off now to a dinner where I will give thanks for being lucky enough to have food today. Not everyone does and it is embarrassing for anyone in this country to go hungry, but they do.
I’m On TV Tomorrow
Posted: December 10, 2013 Filed under: Diet- comedy | Tags: Food Bank, heart of Carolina 2 Comments
Tomorrow is the Food Bank’s last day of the Heart of Carolina Food Drive. This is the time of year when people are the most generous to those who have less. The Heart of Carolina is a great way to give to the people in our community who are hungry and is our biggest food and funds drive.
Helping people have enough to eat has changed from being an emergency event to a chronic one. Most of the over half a million people the Food Bank helps are the working poor and children. Our Food Bank is incredibly efficient with all we are given. We can turn every dollar into five meals. Ninety-seven percent of all our donations turn into food that goes right out to feed one of our neighbors.
Your help is needed and appreciated by so many people you may never know, but especially by me. Tomorrow I will be at the Kroger on Hillsborough St. in Durham at 7:30 AM and will be on ABC-11 TV during the local cut in of Good Morning America. If you can stop by and bring food or funds I would love to see you there.
If you can’t come out to Kroger please consider donating online. Last year so many of you donated to my Less Dana fund where you gave over $53,000 to the Food Bank. I will be eternally grateful to all of you who have supported the great work the Food Bank does.
I know that everyone is busy at 7:30 in the morning on December 11 so just click on this link to donate Heart of Carolina Donation. I hope that you and your family are always fortunate to never know hunger. I am fortunate to know you and count all you friends as one of my greatest blessings.
The Giving Heart
Posted: November 15, 2013 Filed under: Diet- comedy | Tags: Food Bank, Philanthropy lunch, Wtvd abc11 4 Comments
With the ABC -11 winners, Angela Hampton, Steve Daniels, Monica Barnes, Me, Carolina Welsh and Peter Werbicki
When I was a kid I did not really understand what a philanthropist was. Yes, I heard the word but I associated it with only the uber rich, past robber barons who summered in Newport Rhode Island like the Mellons, Rockefellers and Carnegies. I certainly did not think I had ever met anyone who could be considered such a big word as a Philanthropist.
Fast forward to college and my sorority where as Pi Beta Phi’s we had some sort of Philanthropy requirement. For the life of me I can not remember what good works we actually did, but we must have done something because I am sure the VP of Moral advancement made sure of it.
When I was in my twenties in the Gordon Geko how much money can you make for yourself 80’s I did nothing philanthropic, despite living in Washington DC and having friends whose jobs were about doing good works. Philanthropy was still about rich people or people who worked in non-profit because they were not interested in earning money.
Honestly it was not until I stopped earning money myself and became a mother that I became more interested in helping other people. When I started volunteering places I considered myself just that, a volunteer. I did donate some money, but not what I considered to be in the “philanthropist” category.
Fast forward to today. I went to the National Philanthropy Day Luncheon where the Food Bank’s nominee, WTVD ABC-11 won as Outstanding Philanthropic Corporation. Their President, Caroline Welch talked about how all the employees volunteer and give back to the Food Bank and other community organizations they support. The award was not for the most money raised, but the years of service to our community.
Philanthropy is not just about rich people giving away money, although that is really nice, but it is about anyone who helps someone else in need in anyway they can, no matter how small. Most everyone I know is generous in multitudes of ways so you are all Philanthropists. So on this day set aside to recognize the heros around us, I want to recognize all of you who donate to the Food Bank, or pick up a hammer for Habitat or read with a child at your local school. I think Gordon Geko was dead wrong, greed is not good, generosity is.
Less Dana, More Good 