BY BARRY WARNER People choose to volunteer for a variety of reasons. For Frandy and Elena Osias, it offered a chance to give something back to the community or to make a difference to the people around them. For others, it provides an opportunity to develop new skills or build existing experience and knowledge. Frandy […]
BY BARRY WARNER Recently, the United Way of Rockland’s 25th ‘Fall Day of Caring’ brought together more than 200 volunteers to complete essential projects for Rockland County’s nonprofit health and human service providers. The completion of these projects empowered the community services to better serve thousands of people. Celebrated as the largest single-day community service […]
After a Pearl River hedge-fund operator was snagged for a Ponzi scheme years ago, Hector May, owner of a New City investment firm, warned investors to be even more careful when choosing someone to manage their finances. When James Nicholson was arrested in 2009, May warned, “but before you invest a million dollars, you do your […]
Colleagues at the Pfizer Pearl River site held a silent auction recently to benefit People to People of Nanuet, N.Y., and United Way of Rockland. Dozens of colleagues donated items, some of them handmade, and many others placed bids on the wide variety of items available. Pfizer turned over the amount of the winning bids […]
In what has become a yearly tradition, Pfizer employees in Pearl River resolved to brighten the holidays of children in the Rockland County community with a toy and gifts drive for People to People in December. Donations were made to the People to People Project Joy! Store and included action figures, arts and crafts kits, […]
BY JONATHAN CALIXTE On Tuesday, November 28 students at St. Thomas Aquinas College hosted an event at Growler & Gill in Nanuet to help donate to People to People and join the Global #GivingTuesday Movement. The St. Thomas Aquinas College public relations course that hosted the event collectively accumulated $2,045. STAC Junior Stephanie Gorman, a […]