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SCHENECTADY
4 local relief agencies get $5K awards
Foundation funds help growing need
BY MICHAEL LAMENDOLA Gazette Reporter

    Four local human service agencies, facing an increase in demand for assistance and a decrease in contributions, have received an unexpected fi nancial boost from the Schenectady Foundation.
    The foundation gave $5,000 each to the Bethesda House, City Mission of Schenectady, Northeast Parent & Child Society and the Salvation Army, all located in the city of Schenectady.
    “These are reliable organizations that are delivering important services. We are attempting to respond to a need,” said Robert Carreau, the foundation’s executive director.
    Carreau said the foundation made the awards after surveying several Schenectady nonprofits about their holiday programs and the recession’s affect on them. “With the economy the way it has been, we got a sense from a number of organizations we have a relationship with that there appears to be a heightened need for these types of services,” he said. “We hope we are able to fill the gap with these grants.”
    Carreau said City Mission has seen a 10 percent increase in people seeking services; the Salvation Army served almost 15,000 more meals this year over last year; Northeast Parent & Child Society expects to serve 200 more children than last year with its Holiday Hope Fund; and Bethesda House anticipates a sharp increase this year in individuals needing hygiene items, sleeping bags and warm clothing.
    “This is serious stuff. People are hurting. There are people who do not have enough food or enough clothing. Supporting the basic needs of the most vulnerable people in our community, especially during the cold winter months, is integral to our mission,” Carreau said. ....................>>>>......................>>>>.................http://www.dailygazette.net/De.....r00901&AppName=1

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Carreau said City Mission has seen a 10 percent increase in people seeking services; the Salvation Army served almost 15,000 more meals this year over last year; Northeast Parent & Child Society expects to serve 200 more children than last year...

Quoted from CICERO

It's all part of the miracle we call Schenectady.  Take a bow Susan Savage and Brian Stratton.

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Support an Endowment for Schenectady's Future

The Stockade Society was created to recognize those who have made a commitment to The Schenectady Foundation through their estate or a planned gift. Stockade Society members understand that their gift to TSF helps grow an endowment exclusively for serving the people of Schenectady County.

Contributions through wills and trusts, and the return generated from their investment, have virtually been TSF's sole source of funding. Today, the Foundation is able to make more than $1 million per year in grants and scholarships only because of the foresight and generosity of our past donors, who have never before been recognized during their lifetimes. The Stockade Society allows the Foundation to gratefully acknowledge supporters and their gifts, and to build on that support over time.

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Regardless of the size of your estate, as a member of The Stockade Society you will make a difference to Schenectady. Over time, your gift will grow, yielding income each year that will go back to the community as grants to support critical programs and services, to help change lives, to touch those most in need.

By pooling the gifts of our generous Stockade Society members, TSF is able – year after year -- to make substantial grants to the organizations and institutions that help strengthen our children, our families and communities.

TSF is Schenectady's Foundation. Please consider becoming part of the Stockade Society, and help us sustain our essential work.

For more information, please contact Robert Carreau, TSF Executive Director at racarreau@schenectadyfoundation.org or (51 393-9500.

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First -  Most of the building that houses Northeast Parent and Child was empty BEFORE the plans were made to
renovate it and move that agency in.

So there is NO truth to the venom-filled hate post that attacked the good name of this agency.

Second -  It is interesting how the EXTREME MILITANT AUTHORITARIAN RIGHT-WING is upset about a
PRIVATE foundation giving monetary awards privately run non-profits that HELP people in the community.
Apparently, the EXTREME MILITANT AUTHORITARIAN RIGHT-WING is opposed to private sector solutions for
community problems and is opposed to helping the poor and less fortunate.   Maybe they need to be visited
by the Ghosts of Christmas past, Christmas present and Christmas yet to come.    They need to be reminded
what Christian values really mean.

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The increase in demand for social services and assistance is a direct result of 8 years of GOP economic
policy at the federal level.   Once again,  the Democrats at ALL levels have to clean up the "poop" left
by another failed Republican administration.

Quoted from mikechristine1

the two years of uncontrolled spending by the dems, our fed debt is now heading toward $14 TRILLION !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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These two years under a dem pres, dem congress and dem senate, the debt has increased beyond anyone's wildest imagination.    

Quoted from JackBauer

I am so glad I started buying gold (funds) early this year.

The value of our $ will continue to go down for decades to come.