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Hudson Gateway Realtor Foundation donates $33,000 to 22 Hudson Valley charities and non-profits in 2021

Shown (from left) are: Maryann Tercascio, HG Realtor Foundation President; Tom Conklin, Make-A-Wish Hudson Valley CEO;
Terri Crozier and Harding Mason, HG Realtor Foundation Committee members

White Plains, NY The Hudson Gateway REALTOR® Foundation (HGRF), the charitable arm of the Hudson Gateway Association of REALTORS®, (HGAR) donated a total of $32,800 to 22 charities and non-profit organizations throughout the Hudson Valley and beyond in 2021. As it enters its ninth year of fundraising, the Foundation is gearing up for another successful year of providing financial assistance to those organizations dedicated to helping the needy in the New York metro area and elsewhere.

“While the pandemic did substantially limit our live fundraising activities, we are happy that we were still able to provide donations to all of the wonderful non-profit organizations that continue to make a difference in the lives of individuals and families in our communities,” said Maryann Tercasio, president of the Hudson Gateway REALTOR® Foundation. “We are extremely grateful for the generosity of our Realtor members, colleagues, and sponsors who made all of these donations possible, especially during COVID.”

The Foundation’s 2021 events, which included a series of its popular live Pub Nights during the last six months of the year, will go toward its 2022 donations. “We are thrilled that we were finally able to begin having live events again last summer and we’re looking forward to a very successful 2022,” added Bonnie Koff, chair of the HGRF Fundraising Committee.

The Foundation’s 2021 donation recipients included:

 

Name                                                                                          Headquarters                    County

  • Caritas of Port Chester                                                     Port Chester                        Westchester
  • Catholic Charities of Rockland                                          Haverstraw                          Rockland
  • Center for Change                                                            New City                              Rockland
  • Community Center of Northern Westchester                    Katonah                               Westchester
  • Drug Crisis in Our Backyard                                              Katonah                              Westchester
  • Food Bank of the Hudson Valley                                      Cornwall-on-Hudson             Orange
  • Foundation for Abilities First                                              Wappingers Falls                 Dutchess
  • Friends of Karen                                                            North Salem                            Westchester
  • Green Chimneys                                                                 Brewster                            Putnam
  • Habitat for Humanity of Greater Newburgh                   Newburgh                               Orange
  • Lifting Up Westchester                                                  White Plains                            Westchester
  • Make-A-Wish Hudson Valley                                            Tarrytown                             Westchester
  • My Sister’s Place                                                          White Plains                            Westchester 
  • SHORE                                                                             White Plains                        Westchester
  • Sloatsburg Food Pantry                                                   Sloatsburg                            Rockland
  • SPCA of Westchester                                                      Briarcliff Manor                     Westchester
  • Support Connection, Inc.                                              Yorktown Heights                    Westchester
  • The Children’s Village                                                        Dobbs Ferry                       Westchester
  • United Hospice of Rockland                                              New City                             Rockland
  • Visions                                                                                Manhattan                         New York
  • Volunteer New York                                                            Tarrytown                          Westchester
  • YMCA Castle Hill                                                                 Bronx                                Bronx
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