Tag: Giving Back

An Alphabetized List of GoFundMe Campaigns For Upper West Side Restaurant & Bar Employees

Mike Mishkin March 20, 2020 Food & Drink 10 Comments

Restaurants have been getting hit hard, and more of them are setting up GoFundMe campaigns to support their employees who live check to check to Read More...

Invisible Hands: Free Deliveries For At-Risk New Yorkers

Mike Mishkin March 17, 2020 Community 2 Comments

Invisible Hands was created by four New Yorkers in their 20s. The group of young and healthy volunteers – who face the lowest risk in Read More...

Upper West Sider Starts Volunteer Sign-Up Sheet

Mike Mishkin March 17, 2020 Community 3 Comments

An Upper West Sider by the name of Kamal Julka reached out to us yesterday with a new initiative to help those most effected by Read More...

NY1’s New Yorker of the Week is Upper West Sider Wendy Strauss

Mike Mishkin December 24, 2019 Community No Comments

Upper West Sider Wendy Strauss was recently awarded as “New Yorker of the Week” by NY1. Read More...

Giving Back At Any Age: Residents of the New Jewish Home Raise Funds For Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Selling Handmade Holiday Crafts and Treats

Mike Mishkin December 19, 2019 Community No Comments

With the winter holidays in in full swing, residents of The New Jewish Home’s Manhattan campus, a nondenominational nursing home on the Upper West Side, Read More...

Cantor Fitzgerald Relief Fund and Bright Horizons Make the Holidays Bright for Mothers Recovering from Addiction at Samaritan Daytop Village

Mike Mishkin December 5, 2019 Community No Comments

The joy of giving was in full force on Giving Tuesday, December 3rd at Samaritan Daytop Village’s Young Mothers Program, with the reveal of a donated Read More...

Charity Vending Machines on the Upper West Side

Mike Mishkin December 4, 2019 Community No Comments

If you walk by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, at 125 Columbus Ave (corner of 65th), you’ll see one of the ten Read More...

Saul and Carole Zabar Nursery School Students Decorate Thanksgiving Bags For Those in Need

Mike Mishkin November 25, 2019 Community No Comments

In advance of Thanksgiving, the two- and three-year-old students in Classroom 2 at the Saul and Carole Zabar Nursery School decorated bags for clients of Read More...

Meet Fran Drescher at Blossom On Columbus

Mike Mishkin December 28, 2018 Events, Celebrities No Comments

Actress Fran Drescher (famous for her role on “The Nanny”) will be hosting an event called “Bits and Bites” at Blossom on Columbus on January Read More...

An Interview With The Women Behind “Saving Jane”

Evan Rabin November 7, 2018 Community No Comments

Founded in April of 2018, Saving Jane is a non-profit that deals with human trafficking awareness and provides a safe haven for survivors. I had Read More...