Dear Weekend Meals Ministry Coordinator for the Take and Eat, Inc. Program,
On December 16 I sent each of you a request for assistance in a Grant we are seeking that is being offered by Berkshire Bank Foundation to 4 community non-profits. Essentially, the $20,000 that will be equally shared by the four recipients will be awarded to the "top 4 vote-getters". A copy of that request with details can be found below and it is also detailed on our website: www.takeandeat.org The Deadline for Voting is January 31, 2010.
Gladys, the Parish Secretary for Most Holy Redeemer – Hadley, was gracious enough to contact the Berkshire Bank Foundation on our behalf and advises that the Foundation will accept on-line as well as mail in votes. In order to assist us, Gladys furthered the voting opportunity by creating a ballot which can be used by those individuals who wish to vote but don't have access to a computer. Instructions are also furnished on this ballot for those individuals who can vote on-line. I am attaching this form which you may personalize with your Parish/Meals Ministry name and would very much appreciate your furnishing a ballot to your clients and parishioners. Those clients who wish to vote can return their ballot to their weekend driver who should provide it to you (Meals Ministry Coordinator) to turn in to the Parish office. Those votes can be sent in to the Berkshire Bank Foundation:
Berkshire Bank Foundation, Inc. P. O. Box 1308 Pittsfield, MA 01202 Attn: "$20,000 Non- Profit Vote"
with those collected by parishioners in the weekend collection baskets. If it is agreeable to the individual parishes, as Most Holy Redeemer is doing, this ballot/information could be included in the Parish Bulletin as an insert. I have copied those parish offices for whom I have email addresses to "put them on board" so they will have a heads up when you contact them.
As stated in my earlier correspondence, Take and Eat is competing with the "big boys" and we need as much support as we can obtain. $5,000 would greatly assist us in sustaining and growing this Meals Ministry to our Homebound Senior Communities – as many of you realize, we are currently providing all of the packaging supplies to the majority of our sites through another Grant we were awarded last year from Bank of America and Community Foundation of Western Mass. However, as our client base continues to grow, obviously so do those costs to expand it.
We greatly appreciate your assistance and thank you for continuing to "put shoes on the Gospel Message" through Take and Eat's mission of "people feeding people". Thank you and God Bless,
Deacon Frank and Kathleen Ryan
Take and Eat, Inc.
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