Right here’s the deal – throughout the pandemic I needed to do a e-book signing for the followers after we launched How I Make investments My Cash. Clearly, journey and meet and greets weren’t going to occur, so we needed to improvise. As a substitute, we arrange a digital e-book signing the place you guys mailed me the books together with a verify for $20 to Lengthy Island Cares and the Harry Chapin Meals Financial institution. I signed and despatched all of them again to everybody at my very own expense. I used to be pleased to do it and also you guys helped me a elevate some huge cash.

Final yr, I hosted a category of seventh grade college students in my driveway, organizing and packaging 100 fifty Thanksgiving meals for Lengthy Island Cares and their “Undertake a Household” program. Concurrently, my followers from world wide contributed over $25,000 on the net web page we arrange. My daughter watched me set the entire thing up and get it going and he or she caught the bug – and this yr I’m turning the entire program over to her and her pals.

We’re attempting to outdo final yr when it comes to packed and delivered Thanksgiving meals for the 225,000 food-insecure Lengthy Islanders in our group, 79,000 of whom are kids.

So, if I’ve helped you or entertained you or stored you invested and centered on what issues this yr, right here is the one factor I ask for in return. All of our content material is offered free of charge, no paywalls. That is actually the one factor I ask annually: Assist me feed the individuals in my group who need assistance this vacation season. It takes underneath a minute to make a donation. You want the write-off anyway. And when you suppose you’re combating inflation, think about how dangerous it may very well be affecting others, who don’t have the profession and sources that you’ve.

There are two methods you’ll be able to assist and make an enormous distinction in individuals’s lives.

If you’re native on Lengthy Island and also you’d prefer to drop a meal bag off, we’ll be having a drop-off this coming Sunday morning. When you’ve got college students at school who want group service hour credit, it will assist them towards that purpose. You’ll find the main points of learn how to convey a meal bag or two and which substances to incorporate on the hyperlink under. Or, when you’re from wherever else on the planet however you’d prefer to make a donation, you are able to do that with a bank card in thirty seconds, identical hyperlink:

Thanksgiving Mission (Lengthy Island Cares)

Each greenback helps. Each donation will get to the people who find themselves in want. LI Cares does an unbelievable job. Thanks! I actually admire it.

Some articles about what we’re doing right here:

Displaying they care, three straight years (Lengthy Island Herald)

Nassau Teen Leads Meals Drive For Needy Household Thanksgiving Meals (Patch)