Last night we held our last Monday Benefit Dinner of the year, raising $415.25 for Sterling Animal Shelter. This particular fundraising dinner was a thank you for Sterling’s very personal relief mission early this month to animal shelters and animal rescue organizations on Staten Island and Long Island that were profoundly set back by Hurricane Sandy. I decided to, for the first time, produce for your a very quick summary of our Monday Benefit Dinner activity this year: Beginning with Project READ and the Cambridge Cares Foundation in January, and ending with Sterling Animal Shelter last night, we held a total of 13 Monday Benefit Dinners throughout the year, raising a total of $12,962.90 for a broad range of great causes. In 2011 we…