Thanks to our generous local donors, dozens of new backpacks, lunch bags and school supplies poured into our Hastings on Hudson, N.Y. office last month! Before school started, they were distributed to parents struggling to get by in Hastings, Dobbs Ferry and Ardsley to give to their kids. Our goal is to ease the burden of costly back-to-school shopping for our neighbors in need!
Thanks to the many generous local families who joined our drive, we collected a whopping 96 “Pool Bags” — one for every child in need in Hastings on Hudson and Dobbs Ferry, NY, plus a few extras! Donors filled each bag with a brand new beach towel, bottle of sunscreen and water bottle. The bags were distributed to kids going to the two village day camps, by the Hastings Youth Council, and SPRING in Dobbs Ferry. The extras were given to kids in refugee families living in a motel in Ardsley, NY.
A big thank you to all the kids at Hillside Elementary School in Hastings on Hudson, NY for collecting hundreds of full sized personal care products for local families in need! Students in each grade (kindergarten through 4th grade) brought in an assigned item, and then the kids assembled 50 zip-lock bags — each one filled with a shampoo, conditioner, toothpaste, toothbrush, soap and shaving cream. Half the finished bags were donated to the Hastings food pantry, and the other half to the Dobbs Ferry food pantry. It takes a village!
For the second year in a row, we raised enough in donations to our Passover Dinner Drive to provide an extra $50 grocery gift card to every one of the 215 profoundly poor Holocaust survivors in our program. The cards were sent extra early in April so the survivors would get them in time to shop for extra Passover foods.
We are proud to have earned a “Top Rated” badge for 2023 (for the second year in a row) from the charity evaluator Great Nonprofits, based on feedback from our community of donors and recipients. Thank you so much! To read the comments about us on the Great Nonprofits website click here!
More than 60 gorgeously wrapped bags filled with brand new kids’ pajamas, books and stuffed animals were delivered to refugee children temporarily living in two motels in Ardsley and White Plains, New York… as well as to kids in need in Hastings on Hudson, New York, on Valentine’s Day! We are so grateful to our always generous and giving community members who went above and beyond to make so many kids smile this Valentine’s Day.
