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My name is Matt Harris. I was raised in Eastchester and eventually returned to Eastchester where I live with my wife and two daughters. I am a psychologist working with students in a high school in Cortlandt Manor.
I have been jogging for the last six years or so. Until the spring I never jogged more than three miles and never between the months of November and May. This spring I decided to push my jogging distance a bit further and started to enjoy it so three miles turned to five, five turned to eight, and then I wondered if I could maybe complete a half-marathon in September.
However, passing 13 miles in mid-June on a run here in Eastchester one morning I started to consider the possibility of running a marathon. By the end of June, I had registered for The Hamptons Marathon.
I am running for health and fitness and for the personal satisfaction of achieving the marathon goal. In November I’ll be 53 and it seemed that if I wanted to run a marathon, I should do it now.
However, one day in August I started to feel that this was a lot of effort for it to just be for personal satisfaction, and it occurred to me that I could run for a cause. I immediately thought of The Community Fund and felt it was the right choice. Since 1919 The Community Fund has benefitted those in need in Bronxville, Eastchester, and Tuckahoe.
Through major challenges such as The Great Depression, World War II, and through the more recent challenge of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Community Fund has supported our neighbors. For over a century The Community Fund has supported services for residents right here in our neighborhoods. The fund supports children and senior services, teen programs, food pantries, after-school care and summer programs for children in need, and mental health counseling. These are all services and subsidies that make the town I love better for others as well as for me.
I’d like my neighbors in Bronxville, Eastchester, and Tuckahoe to help support The Community Fund for the benefit of others in the community, but also for themselves, as it makes our trio of towns a better place to live.