Leaders representing scores of nonprofits, from groups that run homeless shelters and brain-injury treatment centers, to those training service dogs, said setting a cap of $50,000 in revenue from charity gambling would threaten their very survival.
Susan Ford is executive director of My Friend’s Place, a homeless shelter in Dover that serves 30 people every day with an annual budget of $500,000.
The shelter received $135,000 last year from gambling that included bingo and charity casino dates.
“This bill would cripple our agency,” Ford said. “People will die if we are not there. I can’t express how much this bill would crucify us.”
