ALMOST A MILLION RAISED FOR PROGRAMMING

Rising Ground, one of New York”™s lead-ing human services organizations, which operates more than 50 programs at sites across all New York City bor-oughs and in Westchester County, held its annual gala  March 9 and raised $700,00 to benefit its programming to help support early childhood programs, foster care, family stabilization, intimate partner violence prevention, health care, mental health services, juvenile justice and programs for people with intellectu-al and developmental disabilities.  Em-my® Award- winning WABC-TV journal-ist Kemberly Richardson (formerly of New Rochelle) was co-host with comedi-an/actor Chuck Nice. Open Impact Real Estate received the “Champion for Chil-dren” award.