Community Service Updates

Chesapeake Region

Linda’s Legacy Letter 2022

GIVING BACK, LINDA'S LEGACY, LTD Post Office Box 461 Severna Park, MD 21146

January 21, 2022Dear Vincent,

On behalf of the thousands of men, women and children who need your help, thank you very much for your generous 2021 donation of $1,500.00 to Giving Back, Linda's Legacy. Together with your donation and our wonderful volunteers, Giving Back, Linda's Legacy (GBLL) delivers warm clothes and other personal items to over 8,000 people, both in shelters and on the streets. This year, in spite of the many pandemic challenges we persevered and provided holiday cheer and hope to so many people facing unthinkable challenges.

As always, we are proud that this organization is nearly 80% youth driven. Part of our mission is to foster the next generation ofleaders in the volunteer community. It is also funded almost entirely by people like you, the citizens of this area. There are no paidemployees of Giving Back — our operation is run solely by volunteers. Without your help, we could not accomplish our mission.

Every year, thanks to you and our wonderful volunteers, GBLL has continued to support area communities. We are especially humbled and grateful for your dedication and confidence in our ability to conduct this mission. We look forward to helping more people and in more ways, in the years to come. With your support, I am sure we can bring comfort and kindness to all those in need.

Mission Statement

Giving Back, Linda's Legacy is dedicated to aiding the homeless by providingfood, clothing, fellowship and programs that are aimed at encouraging self respect and fostering self empowerment. By providing innovative programs that rehabilitate the individual orfamily unit we hope to break the cycle of unemployment, frequenting of shelters and help develop selfreliant individuals.

If you are interested in additional volunteer opportunities or want to learn moreabout GBLL, please visit our website at www.homelessdrive.org. For tax purposes,our Tax ID # is 26-4714181.

We appreciate you and aregrateful!

Most Sincerely,

yeanette Middleton- Sudano Andthe Ezecutive (Board

Jeanette Middleton-Sudano

Executive Director

The Executive Board of GBLL

Linda Greenberg, Founder Giving Back, Linda's Legacy www.homelessdrive.org

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Charitable Plea: Linda’s Legacy

The Porsche club has been so generous over the years, and I reach out again….

As you are likely aware, 75,000 refugees have recently arrived in our country from Afghanistan...over 2000 of these are being resettled in Maryland. The purpose of this message concerns 200 refugees, including 40 families, currently residing temporarily in two extended care Anne Arundel County motels near BWI airport.

Three weeks ago, a small number of our county residents visited these two motels and were absolutely ASTOUNDED by the total lack of support these new residents were receiving by our government and/or the NGO in place to facilitate their resettlement process. I was one of these visitors and, along with several others, felt an urgent need to jump in to help provide food, clothing, guidance and, most importantly, welcoming love and compassion. We understand that this huge number of refugees hitting our shores all at once places the NGOs in a very difficult position to ramp up staffing to meet the demand...thus we feel compelled to help bridge gaps in any way we can

We know that our beloved founder, Linda Greenburg, would have fully engaged our all-volunteer organization in this humanitarian process...thus we will be focused on this for at least the next several months. One way we can help is by funding some of the items that are essential that the refugees are not currently able to provide for themselves....short term independent housing, tools needed to navigate day to day life such as laptops, chrome books for the children, phones, transportation, out of pocket medical expenses, ESL training etc.

I am working with so many families, but we have a large family of 8 with a disabled child that needs permanent housing immediately. They were moved from the hotel into a very high crime, lowincome apt complex. They are very scared. Your support is greatly needed.

If you are able to help, our website is accepting tax deductible contributions at www.homelessdrive.org , when you donate, under addition information please choose Porsche Club so you are recognized. Checks can be mailed to:

Giving Back Post Office Box 461 Severna Park, MD 21146

In addition to this, there are other important ways you might be able to help....in kind donations (furniture and other household items, autos with useful life remaining, other) and time to assist in certain related tasks.

FYI...for anyone having access to Facebook, we have set up a page to updates and related info .... https://www.facebook.com/BWI-Afghan-Welcoming-Coordination-Efforts-114443111143834/

Many thanks for your generous support over the years....we hope you can join us now in helping provide a dignified welcome to these friends and allies of our fellow countrymen and women serving in Afghanistan the past several years.

Most Grateful,Jeanette

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Community Service

Anna Beavan

Dear PCA CHS Family,

I’d like to take this opportunity to re-introduce you to our Community Service Section of our PCA Chesapeake Region. As the new chair for this year, I plan to raise awareness of where we’re at in this area of “giving back” and provide each and everyone of you an opportunity to get involved through volunteer activities or charitable acts.

First, I want to start by sharing you a bit about myself, my family and what I’m passionate about. My friends call me Anna, I was raised and born in Manila (Philippines). I graduated with bachelor's degree in engineering. With my mom and my grandmother not having a stable source of income back then, I’m quite fortunate that they managed to provide me with plenty of support for me to have a good education. I remember many occasions where my grandmother will ask our neighbors or my uncle to help me with some of my school projects because neither of them can help since they both didn’t even finish schooling. Little did I know that I was well immersed with thin layers of ‘community service’. So many of these acts of kindness I will later experience from within my community and strangers I met along the way. I was also raised knowing how important faith is in a person’s life. I struggle a lot growing up but thanks to my mom, my grandma, relatives, friends, and loving neighbors I managed to come out from poverty and now be able to advocate and support noble causes.

I’m blessed to have a very supportive husband (who happens to be very actively involved in everything related to PCA). James and I are proud parents of two teenagers (one freshman and one senior) in high school, along with two wonderful mutts (APBT & Cavachon). As family, it’s typical for us to participate in our own neighborhood /church/ school events. We’ve supported quite a long list of charitable institutions along the way. We’ve also sponsored a child through Unbound program for more than 15 years now. Both of my kids shared the same passion of sports cars just like their dad, and love competing in sports. I was quite blessed to be able to have a career supporting industries like semiconductor, healthcare and Information Technology and enjoyed it fully. At present, I decided to pivot and now looking forward to exploring more transformational work around social issues and nearly 2 years ago founded LindaBen Foundation which is my full-time voluntary vocation. If you get to know us more deeply and have visited us in our home, our family is not of great means, but we intend to continue to live a balance life where we can enjoy what we love doing but at the same time remember to contribute and make a difference to different worthy causes.

As new chair of community service, I promise to be accessible to any members of our club who have questions or concerns around community service and charitable opportunities. If you have your stories to tell about the impact provided by acts of kindness or volunteer efforts you received or you’ve been a part of, I am here and available to listen to these stories. If you have any interest in joining me, our President, and my husband in being part of Community Service, please don’t hesitate to send me an email (communityservice@pcachs.org) or call me (240) 461 9442. We have plans for a few different things this season and will continue to strongly support Linda’s Legacy as you saw on page 13 & 28. So, look forward to us rolling those initiatives out more clearly next month.

Yours in Service, Anna “To whom much is given, much is required”

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