FROM: Jeannie Montano, President & CEO, United Way of the Dutchess-Orange Region
United Way of the Dutchess-Orange Region responds to COVID-19 in our community. We are using your donations immediately to provide critical help as each day the need grows tremendously.
This week . . .
We provided 2,000 meals for a local soup kitchen.
We purchased PPE for frontline staff at Orange Regional Medical Center.
We provided lunch for first-responders at Mobile Life Support Services in Newburgh and Poughkeepsie on Friday.
We helped a self-employed family of five that had lost all income during the crisis stay warm and keep cooking nourishing food.
We provided hygiene kits for for a group serving immigrants in our community.
We provided PPE and hand sanitizer for frontline staff at local nursing homes.
United Way's 2-1-1 Helpline received almost 9,000 COVID-19 related calls in the past eight weeks and more are received every hour.
Tomorrow, April 29, is Denim Day. Share a selfie on social media wearing denim in honor of Sexual Assault Awareness Month and tag it #UWDORDenimDay.
We invite you to join us at 8:00pm on Fridays to SHINE UNITED! Light a candle, put up holiday lights, shine a light bright and show your support for everyone on the frontline battling against COVID-19.
Thank you for helping us deliver help to more than 40,000 people in Dutchess and Orange counties since March 12th. Together we are #DOCommunityStrong against COVID-19.
and we are continuing to respond to the daily needs of our community as the situation evolves.
We have raised almost $115,000 in just a short time! Help us reach our $200,000 goal for the COVID-19 Dutchess Orange Community Strong Fund. We need your help now more than ever to help families impacted by COVID. Join Community Strong today!
There is a new financial incentive for Americans to give generously to qualifying charities, including United Way of the Dutchess-Orange Region and many of our community partners. The new universal tax break for charitable donations was included in the final $2 trillion COVID-19 stimulus package signed into law last week and will go into effect starting with the 2020 tax year. The measure grants taxpayers an above-the-line deduction for up to $300 in charitable donations given in 2020. For example, if you take the standard deduction and give $300 to charity, you will get a $300 tax break in addition to the standard deduction.
If you're a nonprofit organization in search of food, basic needs or essentials, please reach out to Melissa Clark (mclark@uwdor.org).
Nonprofits, faith-based organizations and school representatives, please contact Rebecca Lull at rlull@uwdor.org to see how we might be able to help with basic necessities for your clients.
Thanks to the following for their support of our community through United Way of the Dutchess-Orange Region’s Dutchess Orange Community Strong COVID-19 Fund:
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