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Many Ways to Donate Funds

1. Click the “Donate” button above to pay with PayPal or your credit card.
   • PayPal is a secure, easy credit card processing vehicle to ensure your personal info is safe. All funds go directly into our Operation Food Basket bank account. You may print a receipt for tax purposes. You don’t have to have a PayPal account to donate.
2. To donate by VENMO – Scan the barcode below to open Venmo and pay
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3. Xerox Employees can get their donation matched!
   • This year there will be a one week window where Xerox will match your donation from Dec 1 – 5th. Use the Xerox Community Giving tool (Benevity) site. Choose “House of Mercy – Rochester, NY” as the organization, and add a comment to indicate “Intended for Operation Food Basket”. If you have any questions regarding this app, Contact Chuck Falcón (charles.falcon@xerox.com)  phone:  585-899-9546
4. Xerox Retirees can get their donation matched!
   • In support of Operation Food Basket 2025 (our 45th year), one of our fellow Xerox retirees from Fairport has offered to match all donations from Xerox retirees received prior to December 1 (up to a maximum of $5,000). 
   • Update 12/1/2025: Great news, we have reached the $5K level for retiree donations and will receive the full $5K retiree matching donation. Thanks to all who helped make this happen!
5. To donate by check
   • Make it out to “House of Mercy DBA Operation Food Basket” and mail to: Operation Food Basket, P.O. Box 443, Macedon, NY, 14502
6. If you are currently taking required minimum distributions (RMDs)
   • You can contribute directly to Operation Food Basket (OFB) and make it qualified charitable distribution (QCD).  The benefit of the QCD is that it is excluded from your taxable income.  
   • RMDs taken as income as opposed to a QCD will count as taxable income.
   • In order to contribute to OFB as a QCD, funds must be transferred directly from your IRA custodian to OFB. This is accomplished by requesting your IRA custodian to issue a check from your IRA payable to “House of Mercy DBA Operation Food Basket“. You can then request that the check be mailed to OFB directly, or forward the check to OFB yourself.   The OFB address is Operation Food Basket, P.O. Box 443, Macedon, NY, 14502

How to Contact Operation Food Basket

To volunteer to work on the campaign:

Click on our Volunteer page. A description of each “job” is posted.

To be considered as a Food Basket recipient

To be considered as a Food Basket recipient, contact one of the following agencies and request to be evaluated for need. Please note that participation is limited by the donated funds available to provide food.

The families who receive the food are selected by four charitable agencies:

The House of Mercy
285 Ormond St. Rochester, New York 14605
Contact: Dr Tammy Butler
Phone: 585-546-2580

Community Place of Greater Rochester
57 Central Park Rochester, New York
Contact: Carmen A. Carrasquillo, MPA, CPP
Phone: 585-327-7200

Chat with an Operation Food Basket Team Member on how you can get involved…

Maurina Schmidt
mbschmidt61@gmail.com
Phone: 585-455-3242

Gary Mroczek
gmroczek@yahoo.com
Phone: 585-319-1396

Bernie Durman
Bernie.A.Durman@gmail.com
Phone: 585-423-5064