mutual admiration society

I just got a heart-warming batch of emails in response to first round of thank-you notes. It looks kind of like, "Thank you." "No, no, thank you." "No, really. Thank you!"

Everyone has their own reason to give -- because they:

• have been homeless or in danger of losing a house;
  
• did a charity run, walk, or hike and found out something new about themselves;
  
• are advocates, teachers, social workers, nurses who work with people facing housing insecurity;
  
• were double-dog dared to match a friend's $25 donation;
• know how hard it is to get funds for people with messy lives, when people are looking for the "best return" on their charitable dollar.
  

On that last point, a donor who works at MBHP put it best. "[There's] nothing glamorous and neat about the work, which makes it hard to raise funds for its mission. Can’t put a brass plate on a client indicating 'made possible through the donation of …'."

So, thank you again to all of you who give $10 and $100 and $1,000! (Why did you do it?)