MIDDLEBURY — Folks at Helping Overcome Poverty’s Effects (HOPE), the Middlebury nonprofit social services agency, are searching for a person who made a bigger donation than was intended. Officials said the person unwittingly left what they are describing as a “large sum of money” in a donated item dropped off at the poverty-fighting organization around two weeks ago. If anyone is missing a large amount of money and might have recently donated an item to HOPE at its 282 Boardman St. headquarters in Middlebury, please contact Jeanne Montross at 388-3608.