Скачать или смотреть New York Cares 2008 Benefit and Awards Ceremony - Linda Blacken

New York Cares, the city's leading volunteer organization, held its annual winter benefit and leadership award dinner on December 2, 2008. Honorees were the employees of HSBC Bank USA, N.A.; Sidley Austin LLP; and volunteer Linda Blacken. This clip starts with Gary Bagley, executive director of New York Cares, introducing and giving Linda Blacken a Leadership Award, followed by Linda's remarks. Linda gives the attendees a sense of what it's like to volunteer and illustrates how beneficial New York Cares projects are.

New York Cares meets pressing community needs by mobilizing caring New Yorkers in community service. Founded in 1987, New York Cares enables 43,000 New Yorkers (and volunteers who live near NYC) each year to serve on hands-on volunteer projects that help New Yorkers in need break the cycle of poverty and build better lives. New York Cares offers a full range of volunteer opportunities that meet critical social needs, including helping children learn to read, preparing meals for homeless and housebound people, helping low income students get into college, delivering job training to unemployed men and women, revitalizing public parks and schools, providing companionship and meals to the elderly, giving coats to those who dont have them, and much more. Last year, New York Cares volunteers helped 450,000 New Yorkers in need. For more information about the New York Cares Winter Benefit or New York Cares, please visit: www.nycares.org.

If you live in the metropolitan New York area, you only need to attend a 1-hour orientation session to start volunteering with New York Cares. You will then be able to choose from among the 500 to 700 projects offered each month. Volunteer every day, once a year, or any amount in between. Opportunities are available to fit whatever free time you're able to give.