Holiday Cheers
Each year, we set out to make the holidays brighter for our children and families by collecting gifts through Northern Rivers Holiday Giving, and each year you astound us with your generosity. This year, we set out to collect 6,000 gifts for our kids…and we ended up with more than 8,000! It seemed like the doorbells never stopped ringing at our dropoff locations in Albany and Schenectady, and every day’s mail brought mountains of packages.
Huge holiday thanks go out to our 48 Holiday Giving community partners, who each came up with their own creative ways to support the campaign. From giving trees to shopping sprees, they really came through:
Albany College of Pharmacy | Hampton Inn & Suites- East Greenbush | Pyramid Insurance Agency |
The Apple Store at Crossgates Mall | Hudson Valley Community College | Q.U.I.L.T.S. |
Beach Body | Inglenook Realty | Redemption Church |
Congregation Beth Emeth | M&T Bank | Rotterdam United Methodist Women |
BowHunters Plus Academy | Marvin & Co. | Ruckert Advertising |
CAP COM Federal Credit Union | Metabolic Meltdown | Sage Colleges |
Cartwheels Gymnastics Center | Morning of Kindness | Schenectady Honors Society |
CBRE-Albany | NAACP- Albany Branch | Siena |
Christmas Pajama Project | Niskayuna Reformed Church | St. John The Evangelist Church |
Cobblestone Church | Nixon Peabody | St. Mary's Hospital |
County Waste | NYS DTF | SUNY Albany |
CrossFit Beyond | NYS OTDA | The General |
CSArch | NYS Tax and Finance | Tree Paad Fun Center |
Cusato's Restaurant | NYS Teachers Retirement System | Unitarian Universalist Society of Schenectady |
Dialysis Clinic Inc. | Open Store Bookstore | XOS |
First National Bank of Scotia | Policy Research Associates |
And thank you to our countless individual donors for shopping online, donating through our website and bringing gifts to our holiday headquarters. This was the best year yet, and it’s all because of you.