Here are a few ways you can help those in need in the community and beyond at this time.  If anyone knows of any local collections or organizations or has any other suggestions please let us know.  

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• Gift a Port Card to friends or family and help support local businesses.

• Donate money to Port Jervis Volunteer Ambulance Corps, Inc.

• Donate money to Bon Secours Hospital.

• Provide meals to hospital workers at Bon Secours and support a local restaurant using Meal Train.

• Volunteer to provide meals for hospital workers at Bon Secours.

• Donate money to the regional Food Bank.

• Donate food or money to the Salvation Army Food Pantry.

• Donate to First Assembly of God Food Pantry.

• Donate to Grace Episcopal Food Pantry.

• Donate to the Project Discovery Food Pantry (behind Temple Beth El).

• Donate money to the United Way to help families in Orange and Dutchess County affected by Covid-19

• Donate money to the CDC Foundation, a public charity that raises funds to help respond to the public health threat when federal and state funding is not available.

• Schedule a blood donation with the American Red Cross.

• Donate to GlobalGiving's Coranavirus Relief Fund or the Center for Disaster Philanthropy's COVID-19 Response Fund 

• Download the Charity Miles App and they will donate money to a charity of your choice for every mile you walk, run or bike.

• Consult this list of local organizations posted by Empowering Port Jervis for other ways you can help.

• Change your homepage to a charity search engine like Ecosia or Every Click.

• Improve your vocabulary, while playing free rice, which gives ad revenue to the World Food Programme.

• Give to a local non-profit organization, like the Minisink Valley Historical Society, the Tri-State Railway Preservation Society, or the Outdoor Club of Port Jervis.

• Send a care package to anyone who is quarantined or sick.

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Do whatever you can do to help organizations that make our community and the world better and healthier.  Take whatever time, resources or money you can spare to help people in the region and beyond.  We can all find words, ideas or actions to help people, whether it's a family member, friend or neighbor or someone thousands of miles from here.  No matter how small it may seem, everybody's efforts make a difference.  Pease give whatever you can, whenever you can.  Thank you all.