“How Long Have You Been Here?”
This Friday, May 8, 2020, marks the 8th week that Mercer Street Friends volunteers and staff, in partnership with the City of Trenton, Triumphant Life Community Church, and Capital Area YMCA, distributed Weekend Emergency Food Bags to individuals and families in Trenton. Those in line are experiencing the incredible economic fallout of COVID-19. They wait patiently – some for the first time, others have been coming since March – for their bag that will provide them with 16 meals for their families on Saturday and Sunday. This is our community; these are our neighbors. We were with them when this began and we were there today to provide 1,092 Weekend Emergency Food Bags.
Individuals, families, foundations, small businesses, corporations throughout Mercer County, throughout New Jersey, and throughout the country continue to hear the call to support our community. Thank you for responding by offering extraordinary gifts of time and financial support. Eight weeks has shown us that there is so much more to do. Thank you for standing with Mercer Street Friends, and ultimately with our neighbors, in providing food during a time of great challenge.
Mercer Street Friends has received tremendous support from over 1,200 donors in the past several weeks and we are grateful to each one. Every Friday, we look forward to highlighting groups of individuals, families, businesses and foundations who have provided contributions, ensuring that all who have invested in Mercer Street Friends know their gifts have had an incredible impact on our community.
Toshi Abe
Barbara Ackerman
Shirley and Jonathan Allen
Russ Andolina
Robert Angelo
Andrei and Karen Anghelescu
Lorraine Appelbaum
Neha Arya
Lynne Azarchi
Susan R Banziger
Sameer Bhat
Dina Boero
Dan Bowen
Dana Brown
John Buford
Donald E. Carlo
Richard Catena
Benny Soffer and Janet Chen
Grace Ciccimaro
Dianna Clauss
Kathleen Copeland
David W. Craig
Betsy and Daniel Crofts
Regan Crotty
Camille Deering
Ariel DeJesus
Elliot Dine
Yiping Ding
Joan Ekizian
Joseph and Pearl Elias
Fiona Ersing
Karla Ewalt
Emily Eyestone
Elizabeth Ferrer
Eliza McFeely and Jeffrey M. Fischer
Nancy and Daniel Fishman
Frank and Glenna Follmer
Lynne and Gary Forester
John Franzini
Sheryl Fuller
Dorothy Gaboda
Robert S. Garver
Kathleen and Theodore Gershon
Jennifer and Ameen F. Ghannam
Liam Z. Gonzales
Carmela and Scott David Griffiths
Diane and Moris Guvenis
Martin and Rachel Hammond
Andrea Marie Coombs and Reid Howard
Barbara Clements and James B. Huffman
Andrea Lynne Immel
Cathleen Izzo
Carol and Michael Kagay
Mirian Kemler
Shelley Kiernan
Maureen C. Kimball
Peter Kleban
Fred Kluempen
Michelle M. Koenen
Jere Tannenbaum and Kenneth Kowalski
Christopher Kranz
Sammie Lang
Barbara Larkin
Douglas Larkin
Sonya Legg
Daniel and Rosemary Leone
John and Lorraine Lestician
Alexis Lucena
Ellen Lugat
Daniel Mahoney
Marcia and Jay Margolis
Kevin McCabe
Bruce McGarvey
Kelly McGlynn
Robin and James McGuire
Michael B. McKenna
David Mesinoff
John and Linda Meuse
Nanette Meyer
Linda and Josh Milstein
Joanne Mullowney
David Myers
Lauren Myers
Lester and Joan Novatkoski
Michael and Alyson O’Donnell
J. Perry Leavell, Jr. and Barbara B. Oberg
Diane Ohland
Joan and David Ordille
Andrew Pachuta
Sheila J. Siderman and Jerry Palin
Louise Patregnani
Jim and Alison Peebles
Eleanor D. Pennington
Elizabeth Pound
Melissa Previte
Prior & Nami Business Systems, Inc.
Cynthia S. Purcell
Yun Qiang
Christine Rabbath
Richard Reale
Joe Reed
Irina Rivkin
Janice and Tom Roddenbery
Daniel R. Ryan
Wanda Saez
Aparna Sahoo
Seema Sathaye
Joseph P Schieve
Shilpa Shanbhag
JoAnn and David W. Shifton
Michael Silverman
Kate Silvester
Mary L. Skovron
Edward B. Snyder
Richard L. Sperry, Jr.
Karin A. Trainer and William W. Stowe
Richard Gregg Szabo
David Tai
Azita Tajaddini
Courtney A. Underwood
Carrie and Ronald Wayne
Rita Williams
Marcia Willsie
Lynne J. Yager
Michael Zhang
Paula and Gregory Zollner