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By Margaret Battistelli Gardner

This mailing by DOROT, a New York City-based organization that provides kosher meals to home-bound Jewish elders in the tri-state area, is the product of an organization’s realization that it needed to do something fresh to gain new donors in the same small, regional market it had been reaching out to — and saturating — for 15 years.