The Thursday Club, celebrating its 100th anniversary of donating funds to the community and needy nonprofits, managed to raise $82,000 despite Covid restrictions for this year”™s beneficiary, RSHM LIFE Center of Sleepy Hollow. Chaired by Sarah Gardner and Catherine Diao of Irvington, the fundraising was in the form of a mail campaign.
Cathy Hansen of Irvington, Thursday Club president, presented the $82,000 check to Sister Susan Gardella, executive director of RSHM LIFE Center, which will use the funds to continue its efforts in distributing prepared meals, groceries and produce to local families. In addition to launching a summer program for 37 children, the center will continue its Learning Labs to support remote learning for grade school children. When school resumes full time late spring and fall, the LIFE Center will reconfigure its building space in order to accommodate all 72 of its students in the after-school program.
Since its founding in 1995 by the Religious of the Sacred Heart of Mary, the LIFE Center has been a trusted community asset serving the needs of low-income, non-English speaking immigrants.
The Thursday Club is comprised of a group of women who are committed to their community, to each other and to the belief that friends working together with focus and compassion can improve the world around them. Since its founding in 1921, the Thursday Club has raised and donated more than $2.6 million to area nonprofits.
