Community Missions Launches 11th Annual Parents’ Day Campaign

Matching Campaign has $35,000 Goal in 2016

Community Missions launches its 11th Annual Parents’ Day Campaign this week, giving Niagara residents a chance to honor their fathers and mothers with a gift to support their neighbors in need.

Once again, long-time supporters of the Mission will match donations to the campaign. Stephen and Sharon Plumeri have pledged to match, dollar-for-dollar, the first $15,000 donated, while Niagara Falls Redevelopment has given the first $1,000 to the campaign.

Generous media sponsors, The NiagaraHub and AllServicesWNY, are providing further support of the campaign.

“We are so appreciative of the way that the community has always embraced the Parents’ Day Campaign,” said Christian Hoffman, Communications & Development Manager at Community Missions. “It is so rewarding for the Mission to be an institution through which the Niagara Community helps their own.”

Donations made to the Mission are vital to its Crisis Services, like the Emergency Housing Shelter, Community Kitchen and Food Pantry, where demand continues to increase. Last year, the pantry distributed 36,342 meals. That total was 7,047 more than 2014, representing a startling 24% increase in just one year. This trend has already continued in 2016, as the first quarter’s 8,793 meals stands as an 8% increase from 2015 and a 50% increase from the 2014 first quarter total.

Donations can be made in person or via check at 1570 Buffalo Ave., Niagara Falls, NY 14303. Online donations can also be made by visiting bit.ly/CMIDonate and selecting the “Parents’ Day Campaign” option under the “Apply my Donation to” heading.

In 2015, Community Missions celebrated its 90th anniversary of serving the less fortunate in Niagara County. Last year, the Mission provided more than 87,000 meals and over 10,000 nights of shelter as the county’s largest private provider of basic human needs.

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