Nyack Sketch Log: River Hook: The Hester Haring Cason Preserveįor all of its resplendent beauty, there is one thing that the Village of Upper Nyack lacks: a place for residents to gather. Read more to learn how your end-of-year gift to the Nyack Center can leverage a generous matching grant and more about upcoming events at this organization that is so aptly named.
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In the prime of their professional lives, Canal and McLee are already leaders in philanthropy. Canal and McLee thanked Nyack for embracing them as young people, launching careers that encompass brand architecture and motivational speaking for Canal and fundraising and public relations for McLee. The Earth, Wind and Fire inspired “Shinning Star” theme was reflected in the decor and music, personified in the honorees. On November 2, 2019, Nyack Center honored Steve Canal and Tracie McLee at their annual Legacy Gala. Nyack Sketch Log: Nyack Center Is Aptly Named This is the childhood home of one of America’s greatest visual artists, Edward Hopper. The family that once lived in this home at the intersection of North Broadway and Second Avenue provided the motivation. Not many causes can assemble such a vast cross section of humanity, fewer can inspire the kind of contributions that were necessary to restore a structure that was literally a few signatures away from condemnation.
This house was saved from destruction in the early 1970s by an ad-hoc coalition that included neighbors, Rotarians, labor unions, students and artists. I was honored to meet an incredible group of advocates, tour their facilities and interview their Chief Executive Officer, Elizabeth Santiago on the occasion of their 40th anniversary. In 1979, a group of volunteers launched the Rockland Family Shelter, now known as the Center for Safety & Change, to protect women and children from the devastation of domestic violence. That is how pervasive violence against women is on our planet. Nyack Sketch Log: Center For Safety & Changeĭo you know the origin of the phrase “rule of thumb?” It was the maximum thickness of an object that a man in 18th century England could use to legally assault his wife. They are, in alphabetical order, Center for Safety & Change, Hopper House Museum and Study Center, Nyack Center, River Hook: The Hester Haring Cason Preserve, Rockland Center for the Arts, Rockland County Pride Center, Rockland County YMCA and Soup Angels.
If you are one of the 34.8 million people who participated in Giving Tuesday 2020, a 29% increase over 2019, here are eight Nyack Sketch Logs that I have published over the last decade featuring groups that are worthy of your largess. But Giving Tuesday, founded in 2012, at the 92nd Street Y and its Belfer Center for Innovation & Social Impact in New York City redirects the materialistic impulse towards a charitable, more thanksgiving-like purpose. Then came Cyber Monday, a digital hunt for bargains accomplished without leaving home. First came Black Friday, a frenzied footrace of shoppers seeking sales. The last week in November has three days with nicknames that reflect the recent evolution of American culture.
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