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O&R Awards $15,000 for Needy Kids' School Supplies

  • Michael W. Donovan

  • Pearl River, NY – August 26, 2019

Since 2001, Firm Has Given Over $100,000 to this Effort

Orange & Rockland has donated $15,000 to help support People to People’s Back to School with Dignity effort this year, a program that since 1994 has sent thousands of Rockland County’s needy children back to school each year ready to succeed.

O&R has contributed over $100,000 to this program since 2001.The program expects to distribute about 2,000 backpacks full of school supplies this year.
O&R donates $15,000 for Back to School with Dignity effort

Pictured here, getting ready to distribute more backpacks full of school supplies at People to People are, from left: People to People Executive Director Diane Serratore, volunteer Dale McGovern, O&R’s Director of Regional and Community Affairs Neil Winter, the vice president of the People to People Board of Directors, Ramapo High School volunteer Dylan Russell and North Highands High School (N.J.) volunteer Ethan Augustine.

O&R’s Director of Regional and Community Affairs Neil Winter, the vice president of the People to People Board of Directors, said, “These tools for school can help these students build a bright and enduring future, one in which they and their families can grow and prosper.”

People to People allocates nearly $94,000 in funding and other resources to this program each year. Contributions of new school supplies – including backpacks, binders, calculators and two-pocket folders – and financial donations are still needed.

School supplies can be dropped off at People to People, 121 West Nyack Road in Nanuet, Monday through Wednesday from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., on Thursday from 9:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. and on Friday from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Financial contributions can be made online by going to People to People's website.