Hello.

I am asking for your help.

This coming April, I will be running the Boston Marathon to raise money for Community Servings. Community Servings is a local charity that provides meals to the sickest members of our local community. They do what no one else can, or does.

Here’s a little bit about them:

Community Servings is dedicated to providing free home-delivered meals throughout eastern Massachusetts to people homebound with HIV/AIDS and other acute life-threatening illnesses, who are unable to shop or cook for themselves. We provide our clients, their dependent families, and caregivers appealing, nutritious meals, reaching out to those in greatest need. Our goals are to help our clients maintain their health and dignity, provide nutritionally and culturally appropriate meals, preserve the integrity of their family, and send the message that someone cares.

Community Servings’ daily meals are critical to the health and well being of men, women, and children living with an acute life-threatening illness. We design our meals to meet the complex dietary requirements of people coping with a devastating illness who are unable to cook for themselves. Most of our clients are also struggling economically and can’t afford to maintain proper and balanced nutrition. Community Servings offers free, well-planned, nutritionally appropriate meals delivered directly to their home.

Community Servings is a 20-year old organization that was created to help those living with or affected by AIDS, those in the last months of their lives.

Due to a miraculous turn of events, those with AIDS began living longer, healthier lives. Community Servings has now reached out to others with terminal and life-threatening diseases, and now helps others.

Seven hundred people receive meals from Community Servings, each day. Two full meals and a snack.

Community Servings relies on a network of committed employees and volunteers to do this hard work.

But, Community Servings relies on you and me to help them, by providing money in support. Two thirds of their annual budget is from private donations.

And this is why I am asking you for your help.

I have given Community Servings my time and money, in the past. I am now asking for your support, as I run the Boston Marathon in their name, and in the names of their clients.

I have committed to raising $5,000 in charitable donations. I have made a personal donation of $500. Others have already made promises of contributing.

But, I won’t make it to $5,000 without the support of friends, family members, and complete strangers … readers of my blog.

Would you please help?

To donate, you can send me a check, made payable to Community Servings.

John A Keith
528 Tremont Street, 5th floor
Boston, MA 02116

You can also click through on any page of this site to make a donation using Paypal.

You can also click through to the Community Servings website, at http://servings.org, to make a contribution, online.

If you would like to mail your contribution directly to Community Servings, here is their address:

Community Servings
18 Marbury Terrace
Boston, MA 02130
(617) 522-7777

Please note my name and Boston Marathon 2008 on your check.

If I can be of any assistance, if you have any questions, please email me or call me at (617) 470-6839.

Thank you very much for your donation. It truly helps, every penny, every dollar.

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