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White Plains Nonprofits Receive Donations from Realtor Foundation

Hudson Gateway Realtor Foundation has donated a total of $55,000 to 17 area groups.

Three nonprofit groups in White Plains have received donations from the Hudson Gateway Realtor Foundation, which is the charitable arm of the Hudson Gateway Association of Realtors. The foundation made donations totaling $55,000 to 17 charities and nonprofit organizations in the Hudson Valley.

The White Plains groups are Furniture Sharehouse, Legal Services of the Hudson Valley, and the White Plains Business Improvement District.

“As Realtors, we are so pleased to be able to give back to the local communities where we make our living,” said Linda Crispinelli, president of the Hudson Gateway Realtor Foundation Board of Trustees. The foundation participates in qualified community-based charities who serve the housing, hunger, health, happiness, and humane needs of citizens.

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The other charities or nonprofit organizations that received donations include the Association for the Visually Impaired in Spring Valley, Children’s Village in Dobbs Ferry, Community Capital of New York in Hawthorne, Drug Crisis in Our Backyard in Carmel, Friends of Karen in North Salem, Green Chimneys in Brewster, Habitat for Humanity of Greater Newburgh, Inc., Hi-Tor Animal Shelter in Pomona, Make-A-Wish Hudson Valley in Tarrytown, People-to-People in Nanuet, the SPCA of Westchester in Briarcliff Manor, Support Connection, Inc. of Yorktown Heights, The Food Bank for Westchester in Elmsford, and Volunteer New York in Tarrytown.

To apply for funding from the Hudson Gateway Realtor Foundation, please visit its website at: http://www.hgar.com/about/hgar-foundation/.

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