Thru the Lens: Hudson Gateway REALTOR Foundation presents $2,500 donation to Furniture Sharehouse in White Plains

White Plains, NY The Hudson Gateway Realtor Foundation, the charitable arm of the Hudson Gateway Association of Realtors, presented a check for $2,500 to Furniture Sharehouse. 

Furniture Sharehouse provides free furniture to economically disadvantaged individuals and families living in Westchester County, giving them the basic household furnishings that enable them to rebuild their lives and live with dignity.

Furniture Sharehouse clients are referred by member social service agencies and include those moving out of homeless shelters into permanent housing, women and children escaping domestic violence, working families in need, young adults aging our of foster care and victims of fires of other natural disasters. Since opening in 2007, the organization has served over 4,500 households, 13,000 individuals and has distributed more than 71,000 items with a total value of $4.1 million.

“We are so grateful to the Hudson Gateway Realtor Foundation for its support,” said Kate Bialo, executive director of Furniture Sharehouse. “Every year in Westchester, many are forced to live without even the most essential household furnishings because after paying for rent and food, they have no money to buy the basic furniture that many of us take for granted.”