On Tuesday, the Northern Wasatch Association of Realtors donated $5,000 to the Ogden Rescue Mission.

“We feel strong about helping the community,” Northern Wasatch Association of Realtors board member CJ Benson said when she and other Association members presented the check Tuesday at the Ogden Rescue Mission. “That’s what we’re basically doing — helping the community, and we find some areas that need that help and we want to give as much as we can give.”

Ogden Rescue Mission Director Judy Doud told the Standard-Examiner that donations like this go a long ways for the organization.

“It helps with our budget,” she said. “Otherwise, we’d have to purchase a lot more and we would be really limited on what we can do then.”

She said this goes for any types of donations that people bring in — not just money.

“It’s huge when people bring in a box of laundry soap, a bag of canned goods,” she said. “It’s a blessing to us. We look at it as that; they bless us every day when they bring that to us — clothing, it doesn’t matter because we take that blessing and move it on to somebody else and share that clothing.”

Doud said one of the biggest donation needs at the moment is canned goods.

“We are in need of canned goods right now because things are pretty tight,” she said. “We usually do family food boxes, but we’ve had to stop that. We don’t have enough to be able to keep giving it out. We’ve really had to tie a little closer so that we could be sure to do our six meals per day.”

For more on the Ogden Rescue Mission, its ongoing mission to help the area’s homeless, recovery programming and how to donate, visit https://ogdenrescuemission.org/.