Example: DOROT (2 of 2)

Patrick Hansen

Example of a campaign thank-you message. Text of message:

On behalf of DOROT, thank you for your ongoing support. With your help, we continue to ensure that frail, homebound elderly receive the essential services they need to enable them to live independent lives at home. Here are some highlights from this year:

* DOROT social workers matched over 200 isolated seniors with weekly Friendly Visitors. In addition, under the auspices of our Merrin Institute, DOROT hosted a very successful symposium, Friendly Visiting: Ending Social Isolation of Older Adults, at Columbia University on March 19. Learn more at http://www.merrininstitute.org/.

* Over the course of the year, close to 2,000 volunteers of all ages celebrated holidays with more than 800 seniors on the East and Upper West Sides of Manhattan and Westchester County for Rosh Hashanah, Thanksgiving, Chanukah, and Passover.

* The number of DOROT volunteers grew to an amazing 11,000, including a dramatic increase in volunteers from corporations such as Goldman Sachs, Ernst & Young, Bear Stearns, and JPMorgan Chase.

* DOROT's Kosher Meals for the Homebound program delivered 38,143 meals in the last year to seniors too ill or frail to cook for themselves.

We truly appreciate your support of these and other DOROT programs, enabling us to help the elderly live independently in their own homes for as long as possible.

With warm regards,

Vivian Fenster Ehrlich

Executive Director

PS. If you know of anyone who needs DOROT s services, please call us at 212-769-2850, Monday through Friday, between 9:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m., and ask for the intake social worker.