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Jun 22, 2009 2:45 pm US/Central

Economy Taking Toll On Dallas' Hope Cottage

Reporting
Bud Gillett
DALLAS (CBS 11 / TXA 21) ― Hope Cottage, the venerable Dallas pregnancy and adoption agency, may have to lay off staff and curtail some operations if it can't come up with $50,000 in donations.   

It is sending out letters to former presidents, board members, and adoption families asking for urgent donations.    

"The options are layoffs," said Interim CEO Dr. Lottye Brodsky, "which would be terrible but something we have to realistically look at; (and) shorter hours, which we really don't want to do because babies are born at all hours of the day or night."   

Hope Cottage has a staff of 16 which counsels pregnant women for free and tries to match them with potential adoptive families.  But Brodsky says 90% of the time they help women find a way to keep their children instead of adoption.  

The only fees it collects is when an adoption actually occurs.    

When asked if the financial crisis might ultimately force Hope Cottage to close its doors, Brodsky was adamant in her reply:  "No, no, no.  We would be severely limited, but no, we've been here 91 years and we'll be here a lot longer."

Contact Hope Cottage at www.hopecottage.org.

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