Rand receives humanitarian award

Matt Rand, managing partner of Better Homes and Gardens Rand Realty, has received the Stephanie Crispinelli Humanitarian Award from the Hudson Gateway Association of Realtors. Rand was cited for his service to the Hudson Valley community. 

The award is in memory of 19-year-old Stephanie Crispinelli, a 2008 graduate of Somers High School. In 2010, she was with a group helping poor children in Haiti when a 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck. She was among the 230,000-plus who died in the quake.

Rand, a West Nyack resident, serves on the boards of the American Red Cross in Greater New York and People to People, a Rockland-based food pantry. He also participates in the Greater New York and the Hudson Valley Economic Development Corp. and in Leadership Rockland Inc. He was recently appointed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo to the New York State Board of Real Property Tax Service, where he serves as chairman.   

Rand”™s company has 25 offices and 800 agents serving Westchester, Rockland, Orange, Putnam and the rest of the Hudson Valley along with Bergen and Passaic Counties in northern New Jersey.