Westchester nonprofits receive McDonald’s grants

Five nonprofits in Westchester were among the 11 in the tristate area receiving 2017 grants from the New York Tri-State Area McDonald”™s Owner/Operators Associations and Ronald McDonald House Charities New York Tri-State Area. Grants are made to a variety of local nonprofit organizations that serve children through programming in the arts, education, medicine, crisis intervention and social and civic services. 

“In keeping with our organization”™s mission of supporting programs that directly improve the health and well-being of children, we are proud to support the work of these organizations and their efforts to better the lives of the children they serve,” said Christopher Perry, the association”™s executive director.

The Westchester organizations sharing in the $147,000 RMHC NYTSA has awarded so far in 2017 are Cerebral Palsy of Westchester in Rye Brook, Guiding Eyes for the Blind in Yorktown Heights, MVP Basketball Camp in White Plains, Westchester Exceptional Children”™s School in North Salem and YMCA of Central & Northern Westchester in White Plains.