Mamaroneck FBLA Begins Year Long Project with The Midnight Run

The Future Business Leaders of America is a national organization that does not only focus on business and leadership, but also highlights community service. Every year, a Community Service Director is elected to the Mamaroneck FBLA chapter’s team of club officers. The job of the Community Service Director is to take the lead and organize different local community service events, such as the annual Thanksgiving food drive run by the Larchmont-Mamaroneck Hunger Task Force at Stop and Shop.

The main goal of the Community Service Director is to pick one notable charity to create a year long project with, that will be in the end be presented at the State Leadership Conference in Rochester, New York. In the past, Mamaroneck FBLA has done exceptionally well in the community service project at the state level competition. Last year, Sophia Danziger (2014-2015 community service director) placed first at states with her Dress For Success project. Dress for success is an organization that focuses on collecting lightly used clothing for women trying to get back into the workforce.

For the 2015-2016 school year, the community service director is Victoria Mondéjar. The charity Mondéjar has picked for this year is the Midnight Run. The Midnight run is an “organization that tries to provide the homeless poor with a few of the bare essentials needed for survival”. This is done by having clothing and food drives all around the greater New York area. The supplies are then organized by local groups and brought through “runs” into New York City at night where they are distributed to homeless all across the city.

So far, Mondéjar has set up a subcommittee for the project and already has a team of people making fliers and other necessary things. FBLA is contributing to the Midnight Run by putting donation boxes all around the Larchmont-Mamaroneck community in places such as the public libraries that are being checked on by members of the subcommittee. Through the Larchmont Avenue Church, FBLA will organize the donations and go on a run this winter in late January. The final project will be done in March, and will be presented this April at NYS’ SLC.

You can donate today by giving any lightly used clothing clothing or non-perishable food items to the donation boxes set up in the Larchmont Public Library and the Mamaroneck Public Library!