Delawareans are still struggling to make ends meet. With the closure of some of
Delaware’s largest employers, thousands of Delawareans are without work.
When there’s no work, there’s no money. No food. No utilities. No way to pay the rent,
or the mortgage. For a rapidly increasing number of Delawareans, this is the new reality.
Human service agencies from up and down the state report that demands for assistance with food, shelter and heat continue to skyrocket. Demand that is above and beyond the norm. Demand that we cannot meet with current resources.
Delawareans of all ages stepped up to help their neighbors in need last winter when we called on the community’s support in helping us to collect 300,000 pounds of food and $250,000 for utility and shelter assistance. The results were remarkable. But the demand for assistance still remains.
What can we do collectively to aid our friends and neighbors—perhaps even our own family members—this winter?
The answer is Delaware Does More. An emergency food and funds drive to ask those who live and work in Delaware to give just a bit more, help more, care more. Now more than ever.
Delaware Does More is a community-based strategy, jointly administered by United Way of Delaware and the Food Bank of Delaware, to address the increased demand for social services to serve all those as we continue to weather this recession we’re currently in.
Delaware Does More has two goals (incremental):
- FOOD: 400,000 pounds of food
- UTILITIES & SHELTER: $100,000 for utilities and shelter.
Everyone can help meet these goals. Businesses. Schools. Faith-based groups. Social and civic clubs. Neighborhood associations. Sports teams. Individual families.
How can you help?
Click here to download our How-to-Help Kit
Click here to learn more about food drives.
Click here to learn about holding a fundraiser for Delaware Does More.
Click here for our informational brochure.
Click here to see the results of our summer Delaware Does More campaign.
