Maximize Your Dollar

 

CES receives many different requests for help each day.  Many people in society take for granted the basic needs of food, shelter, transportation, a warm or cool house (depending on the season) and even medical help.  However, many who come to CES are not so fortunate.

Because CES cares about these basic needs, everything is done within the limitations of the available funding to meet these needs.  To give you a better understanding of how CES helps those in need and for a list of services, please look at the Brief Description of CES and the Outline of Services.

Each time funds arrive, the CES staff carefully analyze the requests and the dispensing of these funds to those in need.  For more on this subject, see Use of Funding and Networking List.

 

Your Donation at Work

 

Here is an example of how your donation can be used:

$300	prevents an eviction
$250	helps get a family out of a shelter and into an apartment
$100	stops a utility shut-off
$50	provides transportation to work until the first pay check
$25	provides co-pays for a number of urgently needed prescriptions

 

Outstanding Stewardship of Funds CES Spends on Food:

 

$20	Buys 500 pounds of hamburger from our sources at $.04 per pound
$10	Buys over 60 pounds of pasta from another one of our sources

 

This kind of miraculous purchasing power helps many, many families for relatively few dollars.  CES is able to purchase many food items for 4 – 16 cents per pound.  That is five to ten or even 15 times the purchasing power of your dollar at the grocery store.