Update on Reader Generosity

We are honored and pleased to report that early response to the Maryland Matters Food Drive has been outstanding.

Thank you from all of us.

This is the second year in a row that Maryland Matters staff will donate food — bought with money from their own pockets — to Maryland food banks for every financial contribution you send to our nonprofit news site. Several members of our Board of Directors will join in.

Through Sunday night, we have received contributions from 131 readers during our Food Drive, generating $10,870 for Maryland Matters. As a result, our staff and board members will donate 276 cans, boxes or bags of food to three Maryland food banks.

And that’s only the beginning.

Our Food Drive runs through Dec. 12 — next Saturday — so there’s still time to make your tax-deductible contribution to Maryland Matters and help us give back to the community.

It’s our way of saying thanks for your loyal support of our work reporting the news.

As a nonprofit, we depend on readers like you to fund our work — and we appreciate your generosity immensely.

If it weren’t for you, Maryland Matters would not exist.

Last year, we were thrilled to donate hundreds of pounds of beans, rice, cereal, peanut butter and other nonperishable foods to three Maryland food banks. This year, we will do the same, donating to the Maryland Food Bank in Baltimore; Manna Food Center in Gaithersburg; and Delmarva Community Action Center in Cambridge.

And this year, with your help, we’re aiming to give more.

To that end, we’re providing some incentives: the more you give to our nonprofit news site, the more food we donate to the food banks.

As always, we’re grateful for your generosity and pleased to be able to give back — especially in these difficult days.

Please know that no Maryland Matters funds will be used to buy the food.

Whatever you give to our nonprofit news site will go right to work in reporting the news about the state we love. Whatever cans, boxes or bags of food we donate will be bought and paid for by Maryland Matters staff and board members.

Thanks again to everyone who has responded so far.

Stay well!

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