For the community.

A mother of two small children came in asking for help with four prescriptions for her husband. He had been working on a car and a coil sprung out and hit him in the eye. He faced losing sight in that eye. His boss had "given" him a week off, without pay, and said that if he was not back in a week, he wouldn't hold his job for him. We covered his prescriptions, gave them a $50 gift card that had been donated a week earlier and gave them lots of food, diapers and information.

A mother called for gas assistance to get to Stanford for her young daughter for her 8th surgery. The California state insurance program for kids with severe and chronic illnesses would cover gasoline but as a reimbursement two months later. Usually that worked for them but this time it would not. We got together the funds necessary to get her there and back.

An older couple came in who needed an outside ramp for their home. Also, they would not be able to keep up on their monthly expenses. We connected them with SHIPP and Golden Umbrella and suggested that they look into a reverse mortgage to see if that would work for them. They phoned back later to thank us and let us know that things had greatly smoothed out financially.