April 29, 2004

Paying Back With Interest

By Cassie J. Moore

Some charities turn clients into eager volunteers

When Doreen Wohl came to work one winter afternoon, she had 25 people to feed, almost 1,000 pounds of groceries to move, and no coworkers to assist her.

Ms. Wohl, executive director of the West Side Campaign Against Hunger, in New York, was in a bind.

"I hate the line outside on the street -- you know, the old soup kitchen line," she recalls. "I think it's insulting to people, so I always insist we open up

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