Lidl US donated a total of 40,000 protective masks to first responders on Long Island to help protect them from COVID-19. Lidl team members delivered 20,000 masks to the Nassau County Police Department in Mineola and 20,000 masks to the Suffolk County Fire, Rescue & Emergency Services in
Today, Town of Hempstead Supervisor Donald X. Clavin, Jr. and the Town Board have announced that $2 million will be directly routed to fourteen local food banks within the Town of Hempstead. The announcement, in partnership with Long Island Cares, comes as the first official action of the newly created Economic Relief Advisory Committee, which […]
Tara Capolongo, a Special Education Teacher in the Bay Shore School District and a member of NYSUT, is making an impact on her local community. Tara’s sister, Jamie Ferro, is a nurse in the MICU/CCU and she wanted to do something kind for the staff but couldn’t decide on what to do. A few weeks […]
The Farmingdale School District is stepping up to help local hospitals with badly-needed medical supplies. With schools closed and students learning remotely, administrators, teachers, and students mobilized to take an inventory of what they could donate to those working on the frontline. “It started with an email thread to share ideas of how we could […]
Most of us are aware of the toll that the pandemic is having on humans around the country, and even around the world. Yet the economic impacts are being felt beyond humans. The animals are being impacted in numerous ways through this situation, leaving some animal rescue organizations to struggle in being able to provide […]
The Kiwanis Club of Lindenhurst, NY, Inc., Restoration – Kitchen & Cocktails and Cieslaks Modern Bakery donated meals to feed 100 healthcare heroes at Good Samaritan Hospital Medical Center in West Islip, NY. Thank you to all the physicians, nurses and hospital staff for all you do for our community!
Over two hundred masks have been stitched and donated to essential workers in the greater Farmingdale area—courtesy of dozens of aides and monitors from the Farmingdale School District. Lisa Bell— a Woodward Parkway Elementary School aide, seamstress, and member of the Facebook group, Stitched Together Long Island, went to work right after school buildings were […]
Farmingdale Chamber of Commerce, like business-support organizations everywhere, is doing everything they can to help support local businesses adversely affected by COVID-19. In addition to helping promote their member’s new business models to the community during this crisis and offering them various tools available to them through their membership, the chamber felt the
The following is a press release from Hope Children’s Fund, a non-profit organization that provides for the physical and emotional needs of the most vulnerable AIDS affected orphans in Kenya. Dear Friends of Hope Children’s Fund, In this time of crisis, we hope you and your family remain safe and healthy. Certainly, the world is […]
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