NY Coronavirus: O&R Helping To Feed Jobless In Pandemic

Press release from the Community Foundation of Orange and Sullivan:

April 23 2020

PEARL RIVER, NY --- Orange and Rockland Utilities, Inc. (O&R) has donated a total of $30,000 to three local organizations to help them feed the steeply increasing numbers of our neighbors who have lost their jobs as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Two of these advocates for the hungry --- The Center for Food Action (CFA) in Bergen County, NJ and People to People in Rockland County, NY --- are large, well-established, effective organizations that have nourished thousands of the less fortunate in their respective communities for dozens of years.

O&R’s $10,000 grant to CFA will be distributed equally between CFA’s Mahwah operations site in Bergen County and CFA’s Ringwood operations site in Passaic County. Both communities are served by O&R through its New Jersey subsidiary Rockland Electric Company.

The third advocate --- The Community Foundation of Orange and Sullivan, Inc. (CFOS) in Orange and Sullivan counties, NY --- helps individuals, businesses and organizations establish charitable funds that will award grants and scholarships.

CFOS has created the Orange and Sullivan COVID-19 Response Fund to distribute grants of up to $5,000 each to established non-profit organizations to help provide food for needy families; and essential services for homebound elderly and people with compromised immune systems.

These three organizations operate in O&R’s service area, serve O&R customers and have previously partnered with O&R to help feed the community.

O&R President and CEO Robert Sanchez said, “COVID-19’s impact has created an unparalleled food crisis in our community. O&R’s contribution is a step toward putting food on the table in a home that might otherwise go hungry.”

Here’s how to contribute to help support these advocates’ efforts on behalf of our hungry neighbors:

The Center for Food Action (CFA). 192 W. Demarest Ave., Englewood, N.J. 07631

(201) 569-1804 ext. 28.

People to People. 121 West Nyack Road, Nanuet N.Y. 10954 (845) 623-4900

CFOS’ COVID-19 Response Fund. 30 Scott’s Corners Drive, Suite 203, Montgomery, N.Y 12549. (845) 769-9393. Donations of any size are currently being accepted at www.cfosny.org

Orange and Rockland Utilities, Inc. (O&R) is a wholly owned subsidiary of Consolidated Edison, Inc., one of the nation’s largest investor-owned energy companies. O&R is a regulated utility that provides electric service to approximately 300,000 customers in southeastern New York State (where its franchise name is Orange & Rockland) and northern New Jersey (where it’s Rockland Electric Company), and natural gas service to approximately 130,000 customers in New York.

This press release was produced by the Community Foundation of Orange and Sullivan. The views expressed here are the author’s own.