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Dec 31, 2009

"You're happiest while you're making the greatest contribution. --Robert Kennedy" --

Modest Needs: Small Gifts, Big Impact

Gary Ribble would not be able to read this story if not for people like you. Ribble, who has chronic lymphocytic leukemia in addition to severe diabetes and impaired hearing, needed new eyeglasses last spring but couldn't afford them after losing a job he'd held for more than 40 years. Then he found out about the Modest Needs Foundation. The grass-roots charity pools thousands of small donations to help people get through short-term financial crises, with donors directly choosing the requests that move them.... Within a week, eleven visitors to modestneeds.org had pitched in, and Ribble, who lives in a trailer in Nappanee, Indiana, received a $364 check that changed his life.