REALTORS FOUNDATION’S DONATION

From left: Abby Watanabe, Furniture Sharehouse; Shanese Williams, HGAR Board of Directors member; Kate Bialo, executive director, Furniture Sharehouse; and Chris Eifler, Furniture Sharehouse.

The Hudson Gateway Realtor® Foundation, the charitable arm of the Hudson Gateway Association of Realtors®, recently presented a check for $3,000 to Furniture Sharehouse, located at the Westchester County Airport in West Harrison, New York.

Furniture Sharehouse is Westchester’s only furniture bank and provides gently used, unwanted furniture to economically disadvantaged families and individuals across the county.  Clients are referred to Furniture Sharehouse by almost 50 member agencies and include those who are moving from homeless shelters or escaping domestic violence, working families living in extreme poverty, veterans struggling with financial hardship or young adults aging out of foster care.

Clients are seen by appointment, where a volunteer personal shopper escorts them through the warehouse and helps them select furniture. The items are then delivered to the clients. In 2023, Furniture Sharehouse furnished 420 families in need, transforming their empty apartments into comfortable and dignified homes.

Since 2014, the Hudson Gateway Realtor Foundation has donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to charities and nonprofits throughout the Hudson Valley. It participates in qualified community-based charities that serve the housing, hunger, health, happiness and humane needs of citizens everywhere.