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December 28, 2017SEFCU Donates $260,000 Across its Regions to Rescue Missions and Food Pantries
SEFCU has once again provided significant year-end support to many struggling rescue missions and food pantries in the Capital Region by donating $142,000 to local organizations. In total, SEFCU presented checks for $260,000 across the state today as part of this effort. This is the eighth year that the credit union has made donations to rescue missions and food pantries.
The donation reflects SEFCU’s long-time commitment to giving back to the community. The credit union focuses on a number of issues including homelessness, food insecurity, and the problems facing families who do not have adequate food to meet family members’ needs.
“We’ve been providing these year-end funds to area food pantries and missions for eight years and each year I hope it would be our last because that would mean we have solved the issues of food insecurity and homelessness. But, as long as there are people hungry and in need of shelter, SEFCU will be there for them,” said Michael J. Castellana, president and CEO of SEFCU.
The donations were made to Capital Region, Buffalo, Syracuse and Binghamton organizations that serve the homeless and the hungry as follows:
Albany County:
Capital City Rescue Mission – $15,000
Sr. Maureen Joyce Center – $10,000
The Food Pantries – $10,000
South End Children’s Café -Streams of Dreams – $7,500
Trinity Alliance of the Capital Region – $5,000
Cathedral Food Pantry – $2,500
St. John – St. Anne – $2,500
St. Catherine’s Marillac Family Shelter – $2,500
Saratoga County:
Greater Galway Comm. Services Association – $5,000
Saratoga EOC – $5,000
Christ Episcopal Church Food Pantry – $2,500
Columbia County:
Catholic Charities – Columbia-Greene – $2,500
Herkimer County:
Catholic Charities – Herkimer – $2,500
Schoharie County:
Catholic Charities – Schoharie – $5,000
Schoharie County Community Action Program – $4,000
Fulton County:
Catholic Charities – Fulton-Montgomery – $5,000
Catholic Charities – Hilltowns – $2,500
Rensselaer County:
CoNSERNS – U Food Pantry (Catholic Charities) – $5,000
Hope 7 Food Pantry – $5,000
Roarke Center (Catholic Charities) – $5,000
St. Paul’s Center – $5,000
YWCA Food Pantry and Soup Kitchen – $5,000
Commission on Economic Opportunity – $1,500
Unity House – $1,500
Schenectady County:
City Mission of Schenectady – $15,000
Bethesda House – $5,000
Schenectady Inner City Ministry (SICM) – $5,000
Syracuse:
Catholic Charities Men’s Shelter – $20,000
Rescue Mission Soup Kitchen – $20,000
Meals on Wheels of Syracuse – $5,000
Samaritan Center – $2,500
Food Bank of Central NY – $1,000
Syracuse Northeast Community Center – $1,000
Binghamton:
Community Hunger Outreach Warehouse – $20,000
Whitney Place Rescue Mission – $5,000
Loaves & Fishes Food Pantry – $3,500
Buffalo:
Buffalo City Mission – $10,000
Compass House – $10,000
Food Bank of Western NY – $10,000
St. Luke’s Mission of Mercy – $10,000
