Hudson Gateway REALTOR® Foundation Donates $27,750 To Hudson Valley Charities in First Quarter 2025

May 1, 2025
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White Plains, NY (April 2025) The Hudson Gateway REALTOR® Foundation (HGRF), the charitable arm of the Hudson Gateway Association of REALTORS®, (HGAR), donated a total $27,750 to 12 charities and non-profit organizations throughout the Hudson Valley during the first quarter of 2025. Recent donation recipients include:

Abilities First, New Windsor, Orange
Alliance for Safe Kids/Drug Crisis in our Backyard, Yorktown, Westchester
Feeding Westchester, Elmsford, Westchester
Gullotta House, Briarcliff Manor,  Westchester
Make-A-Wish Hudson Valley, Tarrytown, Westchester
Mount Kisco Interfaith Food Pantry, Mount Kisco, Westchester
My Sister’s Place, White Plains, Westchester
New Era Creative Space, Peekskill, Westchester
United Hospice, New City, Rockland
Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the HV, Ossining, Westchester
YCMA Central & Northern Westchester, White Plains, Westchester

“The mission of our REALTOR® Foundation is to give back to those in need in the many communities where our members live and work,” said Ralph Gabay, President of the HG REALTOR® Foundation. “Our members and sponsors have been very generous over the past year, and we look forward to providing many more donations through the remainder of 2025.”
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The Make-A-Wish donation will actually be presented at the Foundation’s May 15 “Dancing for the Foundation” event at Glen Island Harbour Club in New Rochelle. Tickets are still available by visiting Dancing for the Foundation 2025 by Hudson Gateway REALTOR Foundation.


Established in 2004 and relaunched in 2013, the HG Realtor Foundation has donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to charities and non-profits throughout the Hudson Valley. As concerned members of the communities we work in, the Hudson Gateway REALTOR® Foundation participates in qualified community-based charities who serve the housing, hunger, health, happiness, and humane needs of citizens everywhere.

 

The Hudson Gateway Association of REALTORS® is a not-for-profit trade association representing over 13,000 real estate professionals doing business in Westchester, Putnam, Rockland, Orange, and Sullivan counties, as well as the Bronx and Manhattan. It is the second largest REALTOR® Association in New York, and one of the largest in the country. 

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