You can never be too rich or have too many volunteers.
I’ve rewritten the old cliche to make it politically correct, considering the dwindling donations to food banks in the area and the spike in the number of households relying on emergency food for survival.
The Thanksgiving holiday is the one day out of the year that soup kitchens get such an overabundance of volunteers that they actually turn some away. At Caring Community, Tom Marrone and I decided that we would find a way to put every volunteer who walked through the door on Thanksgiving morning to work. New York Cares and City Meals on Wheels each sent us a team of 40 volunteers to help us deliver 350 meals on Thanksgiving to the home-bound in Greenwich Village. Another six eager volunteers just followed the traffic to the Caring Community headquarters and offered their services.
At first, I was slightly overwhelmed by the sight of so many people, but my regular volunteers, Tim Gibbons, Cindy Slater and Ginger from the band “The Wildhearts” helped me with crowd control , organization and clean up. Together we set a record for rapid delivery as the troops hit the streets within 45 minutes and delivered the hot feast to everyone on our list before noon.
Now, if there is someone out there who thinks that you can be too rich, please call me. I’ve got a charity for you.
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