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The Hudson Gateway Realtor Foundation donates $27,750 to 12 Hudson Valley charities and non-profits

White Plains, NY The Hudson Gateway Realtor Foundation (HGRF), the charitable arm of the Hudson Gateway Association of Realtors, (HGAR) donated a total $27,750 to 12 charities and non-profit organizations throughout the Hudson Valley during the first quarter of 2025.

“The mission of our Realtor Foundation is to give back to those in need in the many communities where our members live and work,” said Ralph Gabay, president of the HG Realtor Foundation. “Our members and sponsors have been very generous over the past year, and we look forward to providing many more donations through the remainder of 2025.”

The Make-A-Wish donation was presented at the Foundation’s May 15 “Dancing for the Foundation” event at Glen Island Harbour Club in New Rochelle.

Recent donation recipients include:

Abilities First of New Windsor; Alliance for Safe Kids/Drug Crisis in our Backyard of Yorktown; Feeding Westchester of Elmsford; Gullotta House of Briarcliff Manor; Make-A-Wish Hudson Valley of Tarrytown; Mount Kisco Interfaith Food Pantry of Mount Kisco; My Sister’s Place of White Plains; New Era Creative Space of Peekskill; United Hospice of New City; Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the HV of Ossining; and YCMA Central & Northern Westchester of White Plains.

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