What Your Dollar Buys

$1 per work day, or $260 per year, would provide:

• 1,300 pounds of food that can be distributed to people in need – this translates to 838 meals to hungry Marylanders across the state

• A daily snack for an abused child in an afterschool program

• Nine hours of addiction counseling for two women

• Five weeks of a women’s support group

• Parent-child field trip for 20 families at risk of dissolution

• Follow-up work site visits for eight developmentally challenged people

• Enough to raise and transplant 5,200 pollution filtering oysters

• Twenty-one 4’ native trees that can be planted as a streamside buffer

• 100 prepared meals served in a homeless shelter

• Support for ten senior citizens so they don’t have to choose between food and medicine

• Fourteen employment workshops or GED test fees for six students

• Vaccinations for 208 dogs for kennel cough

• Feline leukemia test for 24 cats

• A hotel room for three families victimized by a disaster and left homeless in the middle of the night

• Six nights in a shelter for victims of domestic violence - including nutritious meals, access to clothing and personal care items, and case management and referral coordination.