Tarrytown-based pharmaceutical company Regeneron staged its first “Day for Doing Good,” a companywide day of service, on Oct. 27. The company”™s employees participated in community service projects impacting nonprofit and community organizations. The projects were as varied as working with Head Start preschoolers in Westchester on science and literacy activities to sorting donated items for refugees in Albany.
“At Regeneron we have a tradition of ”˜doing well by doing good”™ ”” it”™s what we commit to every day through our work developing and producing medicines for serious diseases and through our efforts to strengthen our communities,” said Leonard S. Schleifer, president and CEO of the company.
More than 50 percent of Regeneron employees participated in the event. More than 3,500 volunteered more than 10,000 hours on 227 different projects that benefited 105 organizations.
In Tarrytown, about 110 Regeneron volunteers packaged meals to be distributed by Rise Against Hunger. They were visited by U.S. Rep. Nita Lowey who, along with Schleifer, congratulated them for their public service spirit and enthusiasm.
