August is "Needing Season"

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August is "Needing Season"

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Lisa Cherokee Raine Booker, who runs the baby department at the “Clothing Boutique” at Willing Heart Community Care Center (WHCCC) in Newark, receives six cases of 32 ounce Emfamil baby formula from Livingston Philanthropies, Inc. (LPI). “Thank you, Livingston, for the generous donations that empower vital purchases for hopelessly poor families,” commented LPI founder and director Jeff Friedman. “The reality is that August continues to be ‘needing season.’” said LPI founder Jeff Friedman, exacerbated by the scheduled ending of the federal eviction moratorium this month. “With rent and back rent due, millions of households – including hundreds here in Essex County – could face eviction, just as a surge in COVID cases from the highly contagious Delta variant may be prompting renewed calls for people to stay home and keep their distance. But we in Livingston can help. Neighbors can partner with LPI’s mission of ‘providing for the homeless, profoundly poor’ and disenfranchised by visiting paypal.me/lpinj.” ...

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