Affiliations

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Affiliations

Affiliations
While we are not heavily endowed financially, we are affiliated through the following organizations either through our own charitable gifts, or through volunteer efforts over the years. We wish to bring further exposure and light, these groups which we consider at the core of fulfilling our mission: to help make the world a better place, one cause at a time.

We have all contributed to the American Red Cross, but it is the overall support offered by local/regional ARC shelters and the efforts of our neighbors that really helps communities pull through. While flooding and inclement weather wreak havoc in the local region, the ARC helps all, whether you need shelter for a night or food to get through the week. American Red Cross, Westchester Chapter.

Serving both as an intern followed by a short stint in Public Relations at Asia Society, New York. I have had the pleasure of meeting its founder, John D. Rockefeller, III long before I moved to New York, when as a young teen, I served as an Honorary Page to his lordship while in the West Virginia Senate, circa 1987. Rare works of Asian pottery, ceramics, silks and art dot the hallways of the administrative offices at the headquarters of TAS. Their in-house galleries alone make it worth a trip, offering extended hours on Fridays. It is their mission of bridging global societies through culture, education and the arts that makes this unique organization among my top favorite causes.

While the international Audubon Society boasts an incredible membership, the local chapter of the Bedford Audubon Society is an organization I feel is under appreciated for their overall success of helping to maintain our local bird count and wildlife watches. I was introduced to this lovely group through our local newspaper the Record Review and give thanks to its former president, John Askildsen who helped bring me on board by offering to endeavor to continue the birdwatch at the Palmer Lewis Sanctuary, just around the corner. By maintaining a reliable bird count at the Palmer Lewis Sanctuary and its surrounding wetlands, we offer our support to TBAS and the necessity of their overall mission. Their quarterly newsletter gives a wonderful update to current projects and field guides.

We are currently members of the Farmers Circle of the Bedford Historical Society and support their projects throughout the year, including their membership/fund drive. Just one visit to the Village Green will take you back in time, so step into the old Historical Hall, Court House and the year 1680 can be relived and simulated well once you enter any of these structures in town.

For over 7 years, our support for the BRLA – Bedford Riding Lanes Association as non-riders continues, until, let’s say we actually board our horses at Coker Farm, but until then, we remain grateful to the overall work that the BRLA offers. We intend to open the trails behind us after some much needed landscaping, until then, we shall await Richard Gere’s new equine haven, our new neighbor, come Spring 2008 its scheduled opening.

Ah! London may be our 2nd home, but over a decade later, it is the British Museum and its collection of relics from the globe that sets it apart from the rest, even the Metropolitan Museum cannot compare to its endowment and size. We support our favorite museum and hope to see its continued success for many generations to come.

While Fidelity boasts its name to the Charitable Gift Fund

As an undergrad and former project coordinator for Citymeals-on-Wheels, I’ve tried to continue my efforts of working from the downtown/NYU area soup kitchens, but after living part time in the city and ‘burbs, well, my efforts have been somewhat disappointing. l intend to return, however.

Consumer Reports

Cornell-Weill Center for Reproductive Medicine and Infertility

Cross Cultural Solutions

Do Something

Doctors Without Borders

Edelman Public Relations Worldwide

Guggenheim Museum

HART – Humanitarian Aid Relief Trust, UK

ICP – International Center for Photography

Institute of Cancer Research, UK

Junior League International

Junior League of Northern Westchester, Bedford, NY Chapter