The Homebound Senior Lunch Delivery Program that you fund at Aisling provides nutritious lunch directly to the doorsteps of our homebound seniors.
You are supporting grieving families through access to free individual counseling and peer support groups.
Local residents and their families have free access to a comprehensive cancer support program including nursing, counseling, education, case management and other supportive services through your gift.
Your donations fund 600 free flu shots provided by NYP Westchester for Bronxville, Eastchester, and Tuckahoe residents.
Your support allows children and seniors to participate in an inclusive community music school that inspires, instructs and enriches lives with music instruction, education, and performance.
Your donations fund this educational program focused on the prevention of drug, alcohol and substance abuse, freedom from violence, handling peer pressure and making overall good decisions.
Bronxville, Eastchester and Tuckahoe seniors are able to live independently, age in place, and thrive in their older years through your generosity.
Bronxville, Eastchester and Tuckahoe youth in grades 7-9 have access to year-round programming as a result of your support.
Your donations are accrued each year and are used toward the purchase of a new ambulance every 3 years to maintain its fleet of 3 medical rescue vehicles.
Teens may access leadership and advocacy training, preparation to work with local governments, task forces and community-based agencies, as a result of your support.
It takes a village, and you fund more than one agency that offers seniors affordable services, transportation and home help, with the goal of helping them age in place.
Your donations provide residents of Bronxville, Eastchester, and Tuckahoe with free, high-quality civil legal services.
People in our community who are experiencing substance abuse have access to assessment, intervention, and outpatient treatment and recovery support because of you.
Your generosity provides older neighbors with exercise, cultural and educational programs designed to prevent isolation and increase wellness.
Youth, teens and adults in our town with disabilities and special needs may access therapeutic recreational programs, leisure experiences, and respite opportunities through your gifts.
You are helping to keep kids and teens engaged via “Cops for Kids” Softball Game; “Run for Your Life” Police/Youth Road Race; “National Night Out Against Crime;” “Safe Riders Day;” and the “Law Enforcement Explorers Program.”
Your donations support after school and special programs for children and adults including early childhood enrichment, SAT Prep, and health and fitness in this newly renovated library.
You are reducing food insecurity in the community through your gifts of general operating and programmatic support for ECAP’s food pantry, after-school programs, summer activities for children, and emergency support.
*Are we the oldest Community Fund in NY? Going back to the settlement of Eastchester in 1665, the laws laid out in the Eastchester (or “Ten Farms”) Covenant were meant to be “a framework for a good society, a mission statement or blueprint on what type of community our 17th century forefathers wanted their community to be,” including the education of children according to Eastchester historian, Richard Forliano. This document (housed at Eastchester Town Hall) and it’s provisions are complex in contextual nature, but their aim was to form a supportive society.
In a more recent era, The New York Community Trust, founded in 1923, was established a full 4 years after The Community Fund.
We may just be the oldest — and we can certainly lay claim to the intended philosophical standards of community living in a way that supports a thriving population. Stay tuned.
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