Last year's gifts helped thousands

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The donations — totaling $543,139 — were funneled through 14 agencies on condition the money not be used for overhead or salaries, but rather for programs, goods and services that directly benefit recipients.

The agencies and examples of what they provided:

The Salvation Army: Provided lodging for homeless people, groceries for hungry families, rent money for tenants facing eviction, safe havens for adults and children fleeing violent homes, training for people who had lost jobs, and holiday gifts for impoverished children, families and senior citizens.

Senior Services: Provided meals to 433 seniors still living at home.

Childhaven: Helped 24 drug-addicted infants; placed 37 children in crisis in safe hands, and responded to more than 1,000 calls to its Crisis Line.

Hopelink: Helped more than 12,000 people with food, shelter, utility payments, parent education, English-as-a second-language (ESL) classes and job training.

Deaconess Children's Services: With a focus on teen parenting and child-abuse prevention, helped parents and their children directly and by linking them to other resources.

Family Services: Provided child care for homeless toddlers and preschoolers, parenting classes and intervention for domestic abusers, helping them develop interpersonal skills.

Atlantic Street Center: Preventative programs helped more than 300 young people develop better academic and social skills.

Youth Eastside Services: Helped 26,000 vulnerable children and their families with issues such as teen-suicide prevention, drug abuse, pregnancy, harassment at school and lack of positive role models.

Treehouse: Provided foster children with clothes, school supplies, sports lessons, music lessons, toys and tutoring.

Asian Counseling & Referral Service: Provided seniors, many of them isolated, with hot meals, exercise classes and ESL classes, and provided services for young people and their parents that foster self-esteem, cultural identity and conflict-resolution skills.

Children's Services at Sno-Valley: Helped 54 families get medical or dental care; help with divorce, child abuse and domestic violence; and education and jobs.

Kindering Center: Provided long-term and short-stay foster care for children and licensed a new foster home.

Big Brothers Big Sisters: Provided mentoring and tutoring for 20 young people.

YMCA: Helped 130 young people, some with disabilities, move out of foster care with job training, school help, referrals and housing assistance.

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