O&R Invests $15,000 in School Year Success; Since 2001, Firm Has Given Over $100,000 to This Effort
O&R has donated $15,000 to help support People to People’s Back to School with Dignity effort, a program that since 1994 has sent thousands of Rockland County’s children in need back to school each year ready to succeed.
O&R has contributed over $100,000 to this program since 2001.
The program distributed about 1,500 backpacks full of school supplies this year. Distribution was made today through an innovative curbside pick-up operation staffed by a team of volunteers to minimize any potential crowd-related COVID-19 health impacts.
O&R’s Director of Regional and Community Affairs Neil Winter, the president of the People to People Board of Directors, said, “Giving students the tools they need helps them feel prepared, confident and ready to do their best.”
More than 25 volunteers today pitched in to distribute at curbside about 1,500 backpacks full of grade-appropriate school supplies to 600 families in need at People to People’s headquarters in West Nyack. Pictured here, O&R’s Director of Regional and Community Affairs Neil Winter, the president of the People to People Board of Directors, left, delivers backpacks to one family with the assistance of volunteer Nick Ng, right, from New City.