They can catch up. It's a level of personalized assistance that's almost hard to believe, but there are countless stories of Dimiceli's good works throughout Wisconsin and Illinois. The vast majority of people he helps are never even mentioned in his column. For nearly a year, Val and Al Hyner had been unemployed, using their savings to pay for a small motel room. With almost no money left, Val pawned her jewelry, including her wedding ring.
Dimiceli showed up and helped the couple with gas cards and rent. And when he heard about Val's sacrifice, he dipped into his own pocket and made arrangements to get the ring back. They need to hang onto parts of their life, and sentimental things are very important.
Such stories have become commonplace during the hard economic times of the past few years, and Dimiceli has been flooded with requests for help, even as his real estate business has taken a huge hit. He has also built a strong network of supporters to help him, along with his wife and four children. That's what it's all about. Dimiceli is passionate about helping others because he knows what it's like to be poor. Born on the West Side of Chicago to a beautician and a tool-and-die maker, he said his family struggled because of his father's gambling habit.
It was hard. When Dimiceli was 12, he got a job as a dishwasher so he could help out at home. Grateful, he promised God that if he ever became successful, he'd always help others in need.
He has spent nearly all of his adult life making good on that vow. After he first found success as a rock concert promoter in the s, Dimiceli began to give money to various charities.
But when he realized that much of their money was spent on overhead, he decided he could do a better job himself and started helping people on his own around the Chicago area. He eventually started his nonprofit, vowing that every penny would go to help others. Dimiceli's philanthropy has gone through various phases. It helps to already be famous to become a social media influencer, but he demonstrates that you need to have a raw or personal touch and engage with your followers if you want to do well on Instagram Facebook, Twiter, Youtube, etc.
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We look forward to a movie or dinner, going somewhere nice. Very rarely, if ever, do we take the time to go and find the suffering, where there is pain within the lives of people. At first I thought it would be really hard. I wanted people to be healthy and happy. I was wrong, it was pretty easy to find the suffering people--lots of people.
After I took a lot of pictures and put the location on the back, I started the process of completing my forms for a C3 charity organization status.
I was pretty surprised that within a few weeks I received a phone call from the IRS office that I sent my application to. They introduced themselves, and they were on a speakerphone with a roomful of people. They said they received my application. I said "Is there anything wrong? Some of these locations are close to our office and we decided to take a drive to them.
They said, "We want to let you know that we went to several of the these areas and found many people suffering from the pain of poverty. We will do everything we can to get your application processed as soon as possible.
At the same time as you do get established, we would like to donate food, clothing, and whatever we can to help your quest. It was a combination of emotions—I was so happy that people recognized the "truth" in what I saw and at the same time here our fellow people were suffering and nobody was taking the time out to help them. Thanks to God leading my efforts, good people, now that they know, are willing to help. Moving on, I started doing my work with passion for God. No matter what I was doing during the day, in the back of my mind was to find people that needed help.
As I kept trying to find Government agencies that would help, I was shocked to find that there are so many people put in positions to control the tax dollars targeted for helping poverty situations, but they made it so difficult for these people to receive help. That is still true today. I am not here to throw stones at those people or agencies, but the bureaucracy is not doing its job.
I would say that the job is being accomplished by some, but not by as many as could or should be done. As we were coming through these farming areas, my little boy, who was only 7 years old at the time, was sharing my passion. In fact, prior to this, when he was 3, he was holding his little brother in his lap and hugging him with both arms.
He looked up at my wife and I and said, "Dad, I love my little brother so much. I feel like I have a thousand hearts. This little boy brought to my attention the most poverty-stricken area in Illinois and depicted as the 3rd most impoverished area in the U. As we were driving through this farming area, here and there we would see little run-down out buildings on these big farms.
They were just small shacks, no larger than a one-car garage. We saw a lot of them. The roofs are falling in, the windows are broken. The little boy with the thousand hearts was right. It was like God had brought me here and my seven-year-old little boy brought it to my attention. I was awe-struck. I would have never gone into this area at all, and here I was, a few hours from home, in the middle of nowhere, and my biggest quest to help people would begin.
His hands were twice the size of mine. I approached him and introduced myself to him. As the farmers got the big combines and big equipment, they all were laid off. Being uneducated and not having anywhere to go, they stayed. These people were living as if they were in the Great Depression, or maybe before. As I drove and saw the people, a lot of them had no shoes, especially the children. No proper clothes, just rags, no food. Most of the people were tough, fending for themselves, living on mostly potatoes that they grew and had stored in bushels.
I ventured into some of these shacks. My guide, Pastor George Washington, Sr. What a great man with a big heart. He has passed away since then. I would go into these shacks, and there were children that would sleep cuddled up on rags in the corner. Some had never slept on a bed in their life, and they were years old. I called Springfield and asked, "Where is their food? I used to buy food at 11 cents per lb, now it is 16 cents per lb.
This fee covers the handling. It is a great organization. It is still good food. Instead of all that food being thrown out that nobody wants to buy, Northern Illinois Food Bank takes the food graciously donated by these food chains and puts it in a warehouse to distribute to charitable organizations like The Time is Now to Help the Children and Elderly. We purchased 20, lbs of food a month for 14 years. Did you know there are 30 million people that go to bed hungry every night?
I began to stock the food pantry. I started bringing hundreds of mattresses. We began with bringing 1 truck, then 2 trucks, then 4 trucks. We would go door-to-door, shack-to-shack. Even toys, every child needs some fun in their life. I would go to Toys R Us to try to negotiate a deal to get a discount. Often, it was very hard to negotiate. I would go into Toys R Us with my group of people and we would fill a truck with hundreds of toys.
Carts would be lined up from the front of the store to the back. We would purchase cases of educational toys, fun toys, books etc… When we would go to distribute these toys we would also provide brand new pillows, blankets, and coats. I would go to Burlington Coat Factory, where they would already have good prices, and they would still offer us a discount.
We would buy 1, coats, down coats, etc. Never inferior quality, only good quality items that I would have worn myself and purchased for my own children.
We would buy hundreds and hundreds of pairs of shoes. In our truck caravan, sometimes we would have shoes, blankets, and pillows. Sometimes we would have mattresses, toys and toiletries. Yes, even toiletries. How sad, to not even have toilet paper. If our fellow Americans are suffering and do not have the necessities of life, we provide them.
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