A Generous Use of Storytelling

I just wanted to write and tell you how much I enjoyed your cover story “A Journey of Generosity” (June 12). It did an excellent job of personalizing charitable giving that sometimes gets lost in the annual reports of organizations. It also showed how charity really does start at home when a family just takes the time and concern to set out a couple of canned goods that will eventually mean dinner for some other residents right here in the Southland.

It reminds me of another local program that I like contributing to because of its simplicity of giving canned goods or toiletries that are collected and then distributed directly to those in need.

It is the Necessities of Life program. Volunteers hand out flyers highlighting needed items as I enter the Mayfair Market in West Hollywood. As you shop, you can select the needed items and then hand them to the volunteers as you leave the store. What I like about this program and the one you profiled is that they both exemplify seeing a need in the local community and then devising a program to meet that need with what seems to be a minimum of red tape and bureaucracy.

But what I enjoyed the most about Duane Noriyuki’s article was that it was good storytelling, and that gets the message across better than anything.

GREGG DAVIDSON

West Hollywood