NEWSLETTERS
April 2013 NEWSLETTER
I’ve never been so proud of you! We had close to 90 people in our group for “Dining Out Against Hunger” on Thursday, April 18, at the Old Bermuda Inn. Many of this group are not able to join us regularly at monthly meetings, but are always sure to boost our efforts in April for this special event. The community “Dining Out” initiative provides 20% of all proceeds to Project Hospitality. Thanks go out to Deacon Paul Kosinski and his wife, Eilean, who accompanied our Ambassadors for the evening (three young girls currently living in the children’s shelter of Project Hospitality). It is our hope that letting the girls get a glimpse of “what can be” will provide them some positive impetus. We love this initiative and because we combine it with our monthly meeting, we can once again double dip. We collected $1,200 in our charity raffle pot and split the monies three ways (normally we split the pot in half). I can’t thank you all enough for you very generous, genuine, kind support of Project Hospitality and the Staten Island Giving Circle.
THE RONALD McDONALD HOUSE OF LONG ISLAND
www.rmhlongisland.org
A Home-Away-From-Home for Familities of Seriously Ill Children
Edward Hunt’s raffle number was the first drawn Thursday evening, and after listening to my “soft suggestions” of possible charity recipients, Ed chose RMH-LI so $400 is earmarked to be sent to them for these specific supplies needed.
I’m pretty sure you all recognize this charity by its name. The mission of The Ronald McDonald House of Long Island (RMH-LI) is to give comfort and shelter to families with a sick child in a local hospital. A “home-away-from-home”, the House provides the parents and siblings of these children with a temporary haven in a secure and comfortable environment among other famlies sharing a similar burden.
RMH-LI, which opened in 1986, is the 100th House of the over 300 Ronald McDonald House programs around the world. Since opening, RMH-LI has served over 17,000 famlies from Long Island, throughout the U.S. and abroad. I learned that the Gift of Life organization arranges to have children from all over the world come to the Long Island area for treatment. I also learned that all serious illnesses are included under the RMH-LI umbrella; I think there is some misconception that they serve cancer patients only.
Tina Bilcher-Murphy introduced us to RMH-LI because one of her personal friends has two children who were being treated for heart ailments on Long Island and the parents stayed at the Ronald McDonald House. Tina suggested that the Giving Circle volunteer for their Dinner Program; that is, organizations sign up for an evening at the RMH to prepare and serve the families who happen to be there that particular night. We signed on for Monday, April 15. I can’t explain clearly enough how impressed we were with the professional staff and operation. The facility is absolutely hygiene clean and beautifully decorated for children. It’s a magnificant operation and we signed up already for next April 15.
While we were there, we spoke to several of the staff; their genuine love for this altruistic endeavor could not be overlooked. We were given an informational packet and one of the sheets itemized supplies always needed and always lacking.
PROJECT HOMEFRONT/WOUNDED WARRIORS/ SGT. JOSEPH KENNY’S PATROL
As most of you know, we often find ourselves focusing attention on children’s groups, seniors groups and military groups. No one can dispute the need, compassion and desire to help these groups. What happens, too, I think, is that the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have gone on so long that we sometimes forget that the service people continue to have needs. We go from one crisis to another and sometimes the long-running involvements get shoved to the back of the “needs” line.
It was again, Tina Bilcher-Murphy who brought our attention to a special request that came to us from Sgt. Joseph Kenny who is currently serving in Afghanistan. He is the new Sergeant of his platoon and was shocked at the depleted sundry supply area. He gave us a list of needs and we will use the $400 won and donated by Corrie Verde to collect and mail these supplies. We checked about postage and it is FREE thankfully, so we will get a team of shoppers out there this week to gather the goods. In addition to the $400 won by Corrie, we had a $200 starter (thanks to our very generous guests at Mike’s Birthday brunch). Probably people dread getting a social invitation from us because I always put a little blurb at the bottom for them to please NOT bring wine or flower, but then I choose an item or suggestion for a charity (one time got WAY too many coloring books and crayons…..). So we have $600 to spend on our military. We, in fact, will divvy the monies to include Wounded Warriors (our shopping for Sgt. Kenny closely parallels the Project Homefront initiative so we can cover both).
It would be great if any of you had other organizations or groups that are looking for a community outreach idea to suggest Sgt. Kenny’s needs. Let’s not forget our service people.
BROOKLYN BLUE FEATHER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
In Loving Memory of Laura O’Hanlon
The third portion of our giant raffle on Thursday will be added to a recently-started collection (we had $150 starter for this the other night) to be used for a piece of science equipment or other named need or desire for this Special Ed school in Brooklyn. We are keeping this collection open until we meet a goal of $1,000. With Thursday’s $400, and an additional $100 from a contributor after the meeting and the $150 starter, we have $650 so we are well on our way to meeting our goal. This collection is extremely special to Giving Circle members/ participants. Almost all of us know Phyllis O’Hanlon from tennis, book club, Giving Circle, and/or education. Laura O’Hanlon was Phyllis’ 26-year old daughter; Laura taught at Brooklyn Blue Feather Elementary School and Laura died July 2012. None of us can truly fathom the pain and anguish Phyllis has so gallantly endured. As a group, we didn’t want to present our collection/donation earlier than this because of the raw emotion too new to approach. Slowly Phyllis and we, her friends, are becoming able to plan and organize and broach the subject of this memorial gift. If you weren’t at the dinner/meeting Thursday and want to be part of this collection, please contact me. Many of our tennis friends and book club members were not able to be there so I am sure I will be hearing from them.
**The centerpieces at the “Dining Out” event were donated by Cris Rybak who owns a floral
shop in New Jersey. Cris also left a collection container on her counter at her shop and
collected $100 which we have sent to Autism Speaks. She now has another “bucket” set out
to collect for Relay for Life. Again, we have such generous members. Thank you, Cris.
OLD/ON-GOING BUSINESS
LaValle Preparatory School – Tina was anxious to update us last night on the LaValle Prep initiative. LaValle is a specialty school for disadvantaged and special needs students. We have made a nice collaboration with the administrators at LaValle and voted to work on a couple projects to boost morale there. Unfortunately, Tina’s grandfather died and, of course, she wasn’t with us. But I am here to tell you that all the boys’ basketball uniforms have been purchased. Finale Construction donated all these uniforms. And thanks to Patrice Cannavo and Lina Fang, the girls now have cheerleading skirts. We are so very fortunate to have these kind-hearted, generous people in our circle.
The other need that we feel we can meet for LaValle is to supply their Points Pantry. That is, they have a pantry where incentive gifts are housed to present students when they complete certain tasks successfully. I’ve asked the ladies from the school to give us an idea of what exactly we could fill the pantry with and they will provide us a list. This part of our help to LaValle will commence in September for the new school year.
2013 Prom Initiative – This year’s prom initiative has experienced some “back and forth” thinking and changes. We had hoped that the majority of the dresses would stay right on Staten Island, but we found it difficult to secure donations of dry cleaning, and when you are talking about 300+ gowns, incurring that cost ourselves would have been prohibitive. Also, we initially collaborated with Dennis McKean of Where to Turn to share our bounty. Dennis wants the dresses to be given to Hurricane Sandy victims. We ultimately have decided to give Dennis a portion but also to give a supply to WGirls (we collaborated with this group last year). Our thinking is that there is a surplus amount of gowns and there is a finite number of girls eligible who were affected by Sandy. So, we are splitting the spoils and once again, as we love to do, double dipping. WGirls will pick up the dresses, have them cleaned and offer them to the “ladies” in April. We have plenty of volunteers on our Prom list who are willing to sort, stack, and then help with distribution. It’s hard to believe that it’s time to turn in our gowns but the proms start in May so…..onward to next year.
CURRENT AND ON-GOING INITIATIVES
Cris Rybak continues to lead our initiative to collect supplies to fill backpacks for children going into and/or out of foster care. Good thinking and common sense were telling Cris that our initial efforts to collect appropriate items individually would go too slow so she offered a very smart idea to get this project moving faster. Cris herself contacted a couple of synagogues and churches and asked them to speak to their youth groups to see if they would support this effort. We have concrete affirmation already from one of the synagogues. This idea to ask groups is much more efficient and should bring us much more success. Please do the same thing….contact, talk to youth groups and scouts you know of and let’s make this project fly. It’s a beautiful project….these kids are literally yanked out of abusive households without being able to pack their own stuff for the journey. They need everything but can take nothing. We are making these backpacks to satisfy their immediate needs when this awful situation faces them. We need to gather items such as: toothbrushes/toothpaste, soap, underwear, socks, pj’s, pens/pencils, journals….you know…you can imagine what is needed. The backpacks will be given to children in the tri-state area. Seaman’s Society and Mirtha (who works in a Latino clinic) can make recommendations for children needing these backpacks. If you choose to make a backpack or two, include a card with gender and age into the top of the backpack. Mike had a good suggestion that perhaps we should seek donors who would give, let’s say, a dozen assorted sized boys’ t-shirts, or packets of socks, deodorant (a dozen of anything) that we could use as inventory to make up bags when we hear of specific age needs. If you want to discuss further with Cris, she can be contacted at: florickiki@aol.com .
Sonny’s Circle – I am so happy and proud to announce that Sonny Baialardo, one of our teen members put together a proposal and presented it to the principal of her school to organize a new school group. It will be a Junior Giving Circle, and it has been approved. There will be an administrator heading the group (along with Sonny) and they need to scare up 25 members which should be no problem. Sonny is already creating initiatives to be implemented by her group. One thought came up when we were talking while cooking at the Ronald McDonald event (Sonny and her cousin, Morgan Traina, joined us ladies). It was pointed out (again) by the other leaders that I should get an iPhone and learn to use it. It occurred to me that Sonny and her Circle could provide technology teaching for seniors. We ARE trainable but admittedly intimidated by this stuff. And so was born a beginning project for her new group.
The Inner Circle – I have been notified by the Inner Circle, a group of political reporters, that they have chosen us to receive a check from them for our ‘good works.’ The check should be received in June. I wasn’t given an amount, but whatever it is, I am excited to know our reputation is growing and growing.
SPECIFIC FOOD REQUEST – Margaret is asking for us to earmark a quantity of specific food to be given to the Third Day Mission, the group that provided her so very much stuff for her baby shower at UAME Church yesterday. The group is in dire need of: cereal (hot and cold); granola bars; peanut butter and jelly; and tuna. Please collect quantities of these items and deliver them to me, Margaret or at our subsequent meetings. As you know, we are always collecting food to be donated to our local food pantries; this is supplemental to that on-going collecting. Please take notice and provide these items.
HOLDING OUR BREATH - As I mentioned at Thursday’s gathering, we are holding our breath for word of possible great fortune. Although we didn’t “score” with the NYC Unity Grants competition for $3,000, we are now “in the running” for a few more wonderful opportunities. Carol Lundigran has nominated us for the 2013 Community Service Award through the Soroptimist International of Staten Island (Women Helping Women). The awards range from $500 to $2,000. It would be a bonus to be a winner, but just to have been nominated by such an elite group of altruistic women is so gratifying. Awards will be presented at their June 5 meeting. Fingers crossed.
We’ve also been nominated for a Distinguished Alumni Award from my college, Jefferson Community College, in Watertown. Karen VanWormer Benway has nominated us for our ‘good works’. This is an honorary award and I would be so happy to espouse your wonderful, dedicated work with the Giving Circle. This would be an August surprise.
Then Linda Lyman nominated us for an unbelievable opportunity through Encore.com. This is a $100,000 award for good works (national initiative). They asked for a ten-page essay and, as you might guess, I over ran the ten pages; Joel Cohen who gives me his expertise and hands-on help with all my writing quests, helped me pare it down to size. I will find a way to thank my phenomenal friend when we win. Mike and I then had some trouble submitting the work because everything was done through the computer….we had to laugh because the award can only go to someone over the age of 60 (who has begun a “new career” in volunteerism). I wanted to write to them and say, “Hey, I’m over 60; I need to hire a grammar school kid to walk me through the computer process here.” Yikes…but we figured it out and now dream about all the good we can accomplish with such a huge award.
Always looking for used cell phones (to be refurbished to dial “911” for women on the streets), eyeglasses (for worldwide distribution), pennies/coins for food pantry food, and shopping bags for Margaret’s projects.
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:
“Kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.”
Joseph Joubert, French moralist (1754-1824)
THE RONALD McDONALD HOUSE OF LONG ISLAND
www.rmhlongisland.org
A Home-Away-From-Home for Familities of Seriously Ill Children
Edward Hunt’s raffle number was the first drawn Thursday evening, and after listening to my “soft suggestions” of possible charity recipients, Ed chose RMH-LI so $400 is earmarked to be sent to them for these specific supplies needed.
I’m pretty sure you all recognize this charity by its name. The mission of The Ronald McDonald House of Long Island (RMH-LI) is to give comfort and shelter to families with a sick child in a local hospital. A “home-away-from-home”, the House provides the parents and siblings of these children with a temporary haven in a secure and comfortable environment among other famlies sharing a similar burden.
RMH-LI, which opened in 1986, is the 100th House of the over 300 Ronald McDonald House programs around the world. Since opening, RMH-LI has served over 17,000 famlies from Long Island, throughout the U.S. and abroad. I learned that the Gift of Life organization arranges to have children from all over the world come to the Long Island area for treatment. I also learned that all serious illnesses are included under the RMH-LI umbrella; I think there is some misconception that they serve cancer patients only.
Tina Bilcher-Murphy introduced us to RMH-LI because one of her personal friends has two children who were being treated for heart ailments on Long Island and the parents stayed at the Ronald McDonald House. Tina suggested that the Giving Circle volunteer for their Dinner Program; that is, organizations sign up for an evening at the RMH to prepare and serve the families who happen to be there that particular night. We signed on for Monday, April 15. I can’t explain clearly enough how impressed we were with the professional staff and operation. The facility is absolutely hygiene clean and beautifully decorated for children. It’s a magnificant operation and we signed up already for next April 15.
While we were there, we spoke to several of the staff; their genuine love for this altruistic endeavor could not be overlooked. We were given an informational packet and one of the sheets itemized supplies always needed and always lacking.
PROJECT HOMEFRONT/WOUNDED WARRIORS/ SGT. JOSEPH KENNY’S PATROL
As most of you know, we often find ourselves focusing attention on children’s groups, seniors groups and military groups. No one can dispute the need, compassion and desire to help these groups. What happens, too, I think, is that the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have gone on so long that we sometimes forget that the service people continue to have needs. We go from one crisis to another and sometimes the long-running involvements get shoved to the back of the “needs” line.
It was again, Tina Bilcher-Murphy who brought our attention to a special request that came to us from Sgt. Joseph Kenny who is currently serving in Afghanistan. He is the new Sergeant of his platoon and was shocked at the depleted sundry supply area. He gave us a list of needs and we will use the $400 won and donated by Corrie Verde to collect and mail these supplies. We checked about postage and it is FREE thankfully, so we will get a team of shoppers out there this week to gather the goods. In addition to the $400 won by Corrie, we had a $200 starter (thanks to our very generous guests at Mike’s Birthday brunch). Probably people dread getting a social invitation from us because I always put a little blurb at the bottom for them to please NOT bring wine or flower, but then I choose an item or suggestion for a charity (one time got WAY too many coloring books and crayons…..). So we have $600 to spend on our military. We, in fact, will divvy the monies to include Wounded Warriors (our shopping for Sgt. Kenny closely parallels the Project Homefront initiative so we can cover both).
It would be great if any of you had other organizations or groups that are looking for a community outreach idea to suggest Sgt. Kenny’s needs. Let’s not forget our service people.
BROOKLYN BLUE FEATHER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
In Loving Memory of Laura O’Hanlon
The third portion of our giant raffle on Thursday will be added to a recently-started collection (we had $150 starter for this the other night) to be used for a piece of science equipment or other named need or desire for this Special Ed school in Brooklyn. We are keeping this collection open until we meet a goal of $1,000. With Thursday’s $400, and an additional $100 from a contributor after the meeting and the $150 starter, we have $650 so we are well on our way to meeting our goal. This collection is extremely special to Giving Circle members/ participants. Almost all of us know Phyllis O’Hanlon from tennis, book club, Giving Circle, and/or education. Laura O’Hanlon was Phyllis’ 26-year old daughter; Laura taught at Brooklyn Blue Feather Elementary School and Laura died July 2012. None of us can truly fathom the pain and anguish Phyllis has so gallantly endured. As a group, we didn’t want to present our collection/donation earlier than this because of the raw emotion too new to approach. Slowly Phyllis and we, her friends, are becoming able to plan and organize and broach the subject of this memorial gift. If you weren’t at the dinner/meeting Thursday and want to be part of this collection, please contact me. Many of our tennis friends and book club members were not able to be there so I am sure I will be hearing from them.
**The centerpieces at the “Dining Out” event were donated by Cris Rybak who owns a floral
shop in New Jersey. Cris also left a collection container on her counter at her shop and
collected $100 which we have sent to Autism Speaks. She now has another “bucket” set out
to collect for Relay for Life. Again, we have such generous members. Thank you, Cris.
OLD/ON-GOING BUSINESS
LaValle Preparatory School – Tina was anxious to update us last night on the LaValle Prep initiative. LaValle is a specialty school for disadvantaged and special needs students. We have made a nice collaboration with the administrators at LaValle and voted to work on a couple projects to boost morale there. Unfortunately, Tina’s grandfather died and, of course, she wasn’t with us. But I am here to tell you that all the boys’ basketball uniforms have been purchased. Finale Construction donated all these uniforms. And thanks to Patrice Cannavo and Lina Fang, the girls now have cheerleading skirts. We are so very fortunate to have these kind-hearted, generous people in our circle.
The other need that we feel we can meet for LaValle is to supply their Points Pantry. That is, they have a pantry where incentive gifts are housed to present students when they complete certain tasks successfully. I’ve asked the ladies from the school to give us an idea of what exactly we could fill the pantry with and they will provide us a list. This part of our help to LaValle will commence in September for the new school year.
2013 Prom Initiative – This year’s prom initiative has experienced some “back and forth” thinking and changes. We had hoped that the majority of the dresses would stay right on Staten Island, but we found it difficult to secure donations of dry cleaning, and when you are talking about 300+ gowns, incurring that cost ourselves would have been prohibitive. Also, we initially collaborated with Dennis McKean of Where to Turn to share our bounty. Dennis wants the dresses to be given to Hurricane Sandy victims. We ultimately have decided to give Dennis a portion but also to give a supply to WGirls (we collaborated with this group last year). Our thinking is that there is a surplus amount of gowns and there is a finite number of girls eligible who were affected by Sandy. So, we are splitting the spoils and once again, as we love to do, double dipping. WGirls will pick up the dresses, have them cleaned and offer them to the “ladies” in April. We have plenty of volunteers on our Prom list who are willing to sort, stack, and then help with distribution. It’s hard to believe that it’s time to turn in our gowns but the proms start in May so…..onward to next year.
CURRENT AND ON-GOING INITIATIVES
Cris Rybak continues to lead our initiative to collect supplies to fill backpacks for children going into and/or out of foster care. Good thinking and common sense were telling Cris that our initial efforts to collect appropriate items individually would go too slow so she offered a very smart idea to get this project moving faster. Cris herself contacted a couple of synagogues and churches and asked them to speak to their youth groups to see if they would support this effort. We have concrete affirmation already from one of the synagogues. This idea to ask groups is much more efficient and should bring us much more success. Please do the same thing….contact, talk to youth groups and scouts you know of and let’s make this project fly. It’s a beautiful project….these kids are literally yanked out of abusive households without being able to pack their own stuff for the journey. They need everything but can take nothing. We are making these backpacks to satisfy their immediate needs when this awful situation faces them. We need to gather items such as: toothbrushes/toothpaste, soap, underwear, socks, pj’s, pens/pencils, journals….you know…you can imagine what is needed. The backpacks will be given to children in the tri-state area. Seaman’s Society and Mirtha (who works in a Latino clinic) can make recommendations for children needing these backpacks. If you choose to make a backpack or two, include a card with gender and age into the top of the backpack. Mike had a good suggestion that perhaps we should seek donors who would give, let’s say, a dozen assorted sized boys’ t-shirts, or packets of socks, deodorant (a dozen of anything) that we could use as inventory to make up bags when we hear of specific age needs. If you want to discuss further with Cris, she can be contacted at: florickiki@aol.com .
Sonny’s Circle – I am so happy and proud to announce that Sonny Baialardo, one of our teen members put together a proposal and presented it to the principal of her school to organize a new school group. It will be a Junior Giving Circle, and it has been approved. There will be an administrator heading the group (along with Sonny) and they need to scare up 25 members which should be no problem. Sonny is already creating initiatives to be implemented by her group. One thought came up when we were talking while cooking at the Ronald McDonald event (Sonny and her cousin, Morgan Traina, joined us ladies). It was pointed out (again) by the other leaders that I should get an iPhone and learn to use it. It occurred to me that Sonny and her Circle could provide technology teaching for seniors. We ARE trainable but admittedly intimidated by this stuff. And so was born a beginning project for her new group.
The Inner Circle – I have been notified by the Inner Circle, a group of political reporters, that they have chosen us to receive a check from them for our ‘good works.’ The check should be received in June. I wasn’t given an amount, but whatever it is, I am excited to know our reputation is growing and growing.
SPECIFIC FOOD REQUEST – Margaret is asking for us to earmark a quantity of specific food to be given to the Third Day Mission, the group that provided her so very much stuff for her baby shower at UAME Church yesterday. The group is in dire need of: cereal (hot and cold); granola bars; peanut butter and jelly; and tuna. Please collect quantities of these items and deliver them to me, Margaret or at our subsequent meetings. As you know, we are always collecting food to be donated to our local food pantries; this is supplemental to that on-going collecting. Please take notice and provide these items.
HOLDING OUR BREATH - As I mentioned at Thursday’s gathering, we are holding our breath for word of possible great fortune. Although we didn’t “score” with the NYC Unity Grants competition for $3,000, we are now “in the running” for a few more wonderful opportunities. Carol Lundigran has nominated us for the 2013 Community Service Award through the Soroptimist International of Staten Island (Women Helping Women). The awards range from $500 to $2,000. It would be a bonus to be a winner, but just to have been nominated by such an elite group of altruistic women is so gratifying. Awards will be presented at their June 5 meeting. Fingers crossed.
We’ve also been nominated for a Distinguished Alumni Award from my college, Jefferson Community College, in Watertown. Karen VanWormer Benway has nominated us for our ‘good works’. This is an honorary award and I would be so happy to espouse your wonderful, dedicated work with the Giving Circle. This would be an August surprise.
Then Linda Lyman nominated us for an unbelievable opportunity through Encore.com. This is a $100,000 award for good works (national initiative). They asked for a ten-page essay and, as you might guess, I over ran the ten pages; Joel Cohen who gives me his expertise and hands-on help with all my writing quests, helped me pare it down to size. I will find a way to thank my phenomenal friend when we win. Mike and I then had some trouble submitting the work because everything was done through the computer….we had to laugh because the award can only go to someone over the age of 60 (who has begun a “new career” in volunteerism). I wanted to write to them and say, “Hey, I’m over 60; I need to hire a grammar school kid to walk me through the computer process here.” Yikes…but we figured it out and now dream about all the good we can accomplish with such a huge award.
Always looking for used cell phones (to be refurbished to dial “911” for women on the streets), eyeglasses (for worldwide distribution), pennies/coins for food pantry food, and shopping bags for Margaret’s projects.
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:
“Kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.”
Joseph Joubert, French moralist (1754-1824)
A Poem Dedicated to the Staten Island Giving Circle By Dwight Owens
GIVE ON
Giving doesn’t always require money cause time and effort are free.
Giving doesn’t require a resume; it doesn’t require a college degree.
Giving means sacrifice; it’s unselfish and it’s kind.
Giving can mean being a mentor; It’s not meant for those that whine.
Giving shows compassion; It can mean to serve or to volunteer.
But it has to be from the heart; it has to be sincere.
I give because God gave me a 2nd chance at life; It’s my destination.
I owe it all to him as part of my salvation.
I give to help save lives and to give others hope.
I don’t ever want people to be depressed or to sit around and mope.
I give because I literally get chills when I see others smile.
No matter what I’m going through, their joy makes everything worthwhile.
You should give because it could help someone else heal.
That could mean just listening to someone or providing a meal.
You should give because you didn’t get where you are by yourself.
No matter how successful you are, at some point you received someone else’s help.
You should give because it’s simply the right thing to do.
No matter what or how you give, I show my appreciation to you.
If you haven’t been a giver, then start doing it today.
Accidents happen; you may need the same help one day.
No matter how bad your situation may be, there is always someone worse.
It would be wise not to always do it for payback or to be reimbursed.
I’m impressed with the Giving Circle; I’m sure I’m not alone!
Thank you for making a difference; I encourage you to give on.
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*The Staten Island Giving Circle is now accepting donations through our website. Please be advised that we are not a 501(3)(c) organization simply because the paperwork would be voluminous trying to track $10 and $20 donations individually. You can, if you choose, earmark your donations for your charity of choice (for a raffle pull) or tell us simply to “add to general fund” for community outreach activities.