Greyston Foundation in Yonkers was awarded $1.3 million through the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development”™s Housing Opportunities for Persons with AIDS program. The funds will go toward support services for Greyston Health Services, which runs a 35-unit permanent housing facility.
In other nonprofit news, White Plains-based Westchester Children”™s Association was awarded $1.5 million from an anonymous donor to launch the organization”™s Centennial Campaign. The major gift spurred Kathryn Wasserman Davis, former organization president, to contribute $100,000 to the campaign.
New York Life Foundation is underwriting a $300,000 grant to the Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE), which will help fund the organization”™s outreach to more than 300 students in Westchester County from low-income households. The grant will enable NFTE to serve 1,800 more students in entrepreneurial education during the upcoming school year.
Head of HuffPost bids students well
Internet entrepreneur and digital mogul Arianna Huffington shared her personal story with a group of Sarah Lawrence College graduates at the school”™s 83rd commencement ceremony May 20 in Yonkers.
“My second book was rejected by 37 publishers,” she said in her speech. “Now, by about rejection 25, you might have thought I might have said, ”˜You know what, there”™s something wrong here, maybe I should be looking at a different career.”™ Instead, I remember walking down St. James Street in London, really depressed and seeing Barclay”™s Bank there. So, I walked in, and with a lot of chutzpah and just about nothing else, I asked the manager for a loan. For some reason, he gave it to me.”
The loan bought her some time ”“ and fortitude through 13 more rejections ”“ until her book was finally published.
“Very often the difference between success and failure is just perseverance,” said the founder of Internet publishing company The Huffington Post.
Main Street Connect acquires CentralMassNews.com
Main Street Connect, a national network of online community news sources, has acquired CentralMassNews.com and its 10 community news websites.
On June 1, the company announced plans to add 32 Westchester County sites.
Last year, the company added 10 sites in Fairfield County to its network, operating community-specific news sources like TheDailyDarien and TheDailyWestport.
The company will operate about 52 community news sites in its network after June 1.
CentralMassNews.com CEO Jack Schofield was appointed publisher of Main Street Connect-Massachusetts. Merrill Brown, a founding editor of MSNBC.com, has been retained as strategic adviser at Main Street Connect.
Met Golf Writers to honor The Donald, others
The Metropolitan Golf Writers Association is holding the 60th National Awards Dinner at The Westchester Marriott June 7.
Donald Trump and Tim Finchem, commissioner of the PGA Tour, are among the notable honorees scheduled to be recognized that evening.
Proceeds from the dinner go toward caddie scholarship programs in the New York metropolitan area. For information, call 945-0480.
