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What a day! It was a wonderful day of golf, dinner, and celebration at Westhab’s 16th Annual Golf Classic at GlenArbor Golf Club in Bedford Hills, NY. Along with the skill of many of our golfers, the generosity of our sponsors and friends was also on prominent display as we raised more than $198,000 to … Continued
On Thursday, June 6, 2019, Petrocelli Financial Services Founder Bob Petrocelli visited the Dayspring Community Center to present Westhab with $100,000 for its ambitious project to renovate a grand but dilapidated church building in the Nodine Hill neighborhood of Yonkers into a state-of-the-art community center. According to Westhab President and CEO Rich Nightingale, “From the … Continued
On Tuesday, May 7, 2019, 260 people joined Westhab at the Brae Burn Country Club for its inaugural Building Communities. Changing Lives. Celebration Dinner. More than $250,000 was raised to help Westhab deliver for the people and communities that rely on its services. Westhab President and CEO Rich Nightingale was “honored and humbled by the … Continued
We hope you will join us at our inaugural Celebration Dinner on Tuesday, May 7, at the Brae Burn Country Club in Purchase, New York to help us celebrate Building Communities and Changing Lives in Westchester County and beyond. We are fortunate to have three tremendous and deserving honorees for the celebration: J.P. Morgan Chase … Continued
Westhab is Furniture Sharehouse’s original member agency, and, as Kate Bialo likes to say, “It was all Bob Miller’s fault.” It all began in 2005 when Bialo was a volunteer at the Junior League of Westchester on the Sound (JLWOS). The league operated a thrift shop in Larchmont where, from time to time, residents would … Continued
It started almost by accident. Westhab board member and Hackley School parent Jonalie Korengold had just finished teaching her weekly chair yoga class at Westhab’s Ludlow Commons when she fell into a conversation with Lynda Zezze, Ludlow’s case manager. The chair yoga class, which Jonalie conceived of and had been teaching for over a year, […]
Shauna is thriving. She works for Westhab’s facilities department at the Dayspring Community Center. She is proud to have a job she loves and is successful at, and to be living independently. When she was living at the Coachman Family Center with her two sons in 2012, things were different. Living in a shelter and … Continued
The communities and people that Westhab serves often get a lot of negative labels: distressed, at-risk, high-need. The outward signs of poverty can be evident and do represent very real challenges. But that isn’t the whole picture. All communities have strengths and weaknesses. In poor communities, we choose to focus our lenses on the negative. … Continued