We've already felt the ripple effect of donations leaving, ... I was in New York when 9/11 happened and many smaller, local nonprofits actually folded. We need help now more than ever.

These are new programs, new dollars, ... They do not pay for operating expenses. Not one dollar, not one cent, is going to (beds in the shelter).

This is about the fact that all of the local bread-and-butter nonprofits are the ones that make Fort Collins the best place in the world to live, ... The groups that don't have a national basis wouldn't be able to survive.

My worry is that we will not see tragic eyes walk through the door because we're closed.