The Reporter: June 1997, Vol.8, No.3
Neighborhood Fund No. 10

Two representatives from the service program Seniors Helping Seniors collected their 10th annual Neighborhood Fund check. Norma De Candido, director, and Mae Hall, president and founder of the 17-year-old organization, celebrated with other Neighborhood Fund recipients in April.

The CPMC Neighborhood Fund awarded $79,000 to community groups in Washington Heights/Inwood at its 10th anniversary awards ceremony April 18. Representatives from the groups receiving awards, employees, and other guests attended the ceremony in the Milstein Hospital Baldwin-Hall Lounge.

The CPMC Neighborhood Fund was founded 10 years ago as a joint effort of the hospital, the University, and the Psychiatric Institute to enhance the quality of life in the Washington Heights/ Inwood community. The funds are granted to organizations as varied as food banks, youth pregnancy prevention programs, and Little League baseball. One-hundred percent of every employee-contributed dollar is awarded, rather than some of those funds going toward administration.

Of the 59 awardees, three have been recipients all 10 years of the program. Those organizations are the Medical Center Nursery School, which uses its award for tuition aid for neighborhood children; the Washington Heights Branch of the New York Public Library, which will maintain and upgrade its science collection for children; and Seniors Helping Seniors, a community outreach program serving the elderly.

More information on the Neighborhood Fund, including how to contribute, can be obtained from Jean Armitage, fund officer, at 304-7200 (ext. 27200).