Halstead Property holds coat drive-Helping Hands - 4,000 coats collected

New York, NY In their ongoing philanthropic efforts to give back to the community, Halstead Property’s Helping Hands gathered 4,000 coats in their local and New Jersey offices in conjunction with New York Cares’ 2015 Coat Drive. The agency was the #1 real estate corporate donor in the city in 2015 and the #2 corporate donor overall. 

“We congratulate our agents on the monumental success of the New York Cares Coat Drive. With so many homeless people needing a warm coat, we are proud of agents for coming together to make a difference in our communities,” said Sara Rotter, executive director of sales of the downtown offices for Halstead. Rotter is the co-leader of Halstead Helping Hands with John Wollberg, executive director of sales for Halstead’s Park Ave. office.

The firm adopted a multi-tiered strategy to gather as many coats as possible by having donation boxes in the majority of their storefront offices throughout the city and New Jersey as well as in their managed buildings, a targeted email campaign to the 1,300 agents and their customers, and building postcards to encourage residents to donate. Halstead partnered with Scanio Movers to coordinate pickups of the coats to ensure a timely delivery to New York Cares and the deserving recipients.

To have a strong focus on community initiatives and nonprofit causes for its 1,300 agents throughout New York, Connecticut and New Jersey, Halstead Helping Hands identifies local initiatives or charities that are in need of help and open the opportunity up throughout the firm.

With the Helping Hands initiative this year, Agents in New York City and New Jersey worked with New York Cares, one of the city’s largest volunteer management organizations, on its 27th Annual Coat Drive; the Hamptons offices collected for Toys for Tots; and those in Connecticut worked with Inspirica on its Holiday Gift Collection. One of the largest providers of services to the homeless in Connecticut, Inspirica delivered 5,000 personalized, wrapped gifts to 2,500 children in Fairfield County, and beyond. Halstead agents in Connecticut once again supported this crucial initiative in order to help struggling families have a chance to enjoy the holiday season.

As one of the top residential real estate brokerage firms in the New York metropolitan area, Halstead Property has more than 1,300 sales and rental agents located in premier retail storefront offices in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Long Island City, Riverdale, the Hamptons, Hudson Valley, New Jersey and Fairfield County, Connecticut. In addition, the Development Marketing Division of Halstead Property is the exclusive sales and marketing firm for many new developments in the tristate area and through the Property Management Division, Halstead manages more than 25,000 residential units within 250 buildings.