Gift of Warmth 2022: Warm-hearted readers continue to donate
While Seacoast Media Group's 17th annual Gift of Warmth campaign has come to a close, checks from warm-hearted readers continue to arrive, totaling $62,525 for the year and bringing the campaign’s total donations over 17 years to more than $880,500.
In 2022, Seacoast Media Group was once again honored to partner with the community action programs in Rockingham and Strafford counties, which provide life-saving fuel and other heating assistance to our neighbors in need.
Recipients are often senior citizens facing financial hardships, a young family struggling to make ends meet, an individual or family suddenly faced with a job loss or illness or anyone else facing the threat of being out in the cold this winter.
The money raised through Gift of Warmth is used by the community action programs to supplement their federal financial allotments and to assist those families who need help but may fall just outside the income levels that would make them eligible for federal funds. Gift of Warmth funds allow the community action programs to respond to community need with far more flexibility than restrictive federal fuel assistance funding.
How to donate to Gift of Warmth through Seacoast Media Group
While the annual Gift of Warmth campaign has come to a close, donations are still gratefully accepted, and will be distributed among the two CAP programs for them to make a real difference in real lives.
This year, we ask that checks donated to Gift of Warmth be made out directly to either Rockingham Community Action or the Community Action Partnership of Strafford County. Please write “Gift of Warmth” in the check memo line to ensure the money goes for fuel assistance.
Checks can be mailed to Gift of Warmth, Seacoast Media Group, 111 New Hampshire Ave., Portsmouth, NH 03801. We will tally the checks, record the names of each week’s contributors and then forward the checks on to the two county community action programs. Each week throughout the campaign, Seacoast Media Group will publish that week’s donors.
Again, please make the checks out to either the Rockingham Community Action Program or the Community Action Partnership of Strafford County and write Gift of Warmth in the memo line.
If you need help
To apply for fuel assistance, call Rockingham Community Action at (603) 431-2911. People experiencing any significant hardship or financial crisis can also call and they will be referred to the appropriate person. For more information, visit snhs.org.
For Community Action Partnership of Strafford County, call (603) 435-2500 or visit straffordcap.org.
Recent donors include:
The Douglas W Lund Trust, $300
Edmund and Maija Hibbard, $200
Debra Chase, $100
Art and Sherry Hoffman, $100
Anonymous, $100
Diane Dickson, $100
Julie, $200
In memory of Susan Ronchi, $100
Jane C Nylander Trust, $150
Erica Nania, $100
Mary and Thomas Lambert, $100
Lauren C Hill, D. V. M, $500
Michael and Dineen Peters, $100
In memory of Mary Sorenson, $200
Constance Abell and Steven Cash, $200
Eugene and Nora Balthaser, $250
In memory of Herb Bunnell, $100
In memory of Stanley and Janet Wiggenand Theodore and Romilda Gaiero, $100
Nancy and Morton Cherim, $200
Eileen and William Sutherland, $1,000
Gabriella and Louis Roussos, $100
Anonymous, $250
Kevin and Susan Rafferty, $200
Peter and Kathryn Cady, $500
Patricia and James Dowey, $250
This article originally appeared on Portsmouth Herald: Gift of Warmth 2022: Warm-hearted readers continue to donate
