Join us For Senior Lunch!!! 

Every Sunday we serve a healthy Kosher meal to our senior residents at our East 61st street housing site.  We are looking for volunteers to serve food on May 26th and June 2nd. 

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Open Call for Fitness, dance and nutrition instructors! 

On Tuesday May 7th we will be holding an orientation for anyone interested in teaching a fitness, dance and nutrition class to seniors at one of our housing sites. 

Click this link to find out more! 

http://www.volunteermatch.org/search/opp1348001.jsp

May 2013 Volunteer of the Month- Jerry Goldfeder

Congratulations to Jerry Goldfeder, our May 2013 Volunteer of the Month!

Mark Utay (UJA), Jerry Goldfeder, Ilene Marcus (Met Council)

Jerry H. Goldfeder is a prominent election lawyer with over 30 years of trial and appellate experience and currently works at Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP. His practice includes representing elected officials, candidates for public office, unions, partnerships and corporations in the areas of campaign finance, voting rights and public integrity investigations and prosecutions; it also includes representing individuals and organizations on a broad range of governmental matters.

Jerry has an impressive portfolio of publications and accolades including books, scholarly articles, and pieces for The New York Times. He has taught at numerous universities and often appears in the media as an election and campaign finance expert.

The staff and clients of Met Council are profoundly thankful for the countless hours Jerry has donated to us. He has shown exceptional commitment to the nonprofit community and has represented Met Council in many critical legal matters. The entire community is grateful for his efforts to protect the rights of nonprofit agencies.

UJA Federation of New York recognized Jerry for his outstanding work at their annual Volunteer Recognition Ceremony (pictured above). We hope these small tokens of appreciation demonstrates how thankful we are for all his aid!

Volunteer of the Month - April '13

Tzofirm Shnat Sherut Program

Volunteer of the Month - April '13

 

We would like to congratulate the kids of the Tzofirm Shnat Sherut Program for being nominated as our Volunteer of the Month for April 2013!

During our Passover food packaging event for the New York Board of Rabbis, their hard work and enthusiasm helped us pack over 200 boxes of kosher food! The quick work of these young kids allowed for all packages to be shipped out in time for Passover.

All of these packages were successfully delivered to various prisons throughout New York. No matter a person’s current situation, everyone deserves a proper Passover meal. These kids helped provide these people an opportunity to recognize Passover with the proper kosher products to have this traditional meal.

This group, also known as the Israeli Scouts, is part of a larger youth movement in Israel called the Tzofirm Movement. This teen group volunteers year round to be closer to their community, as well as expanding on their perspective on world values and strengthening their leadership skills. Not only does this amazing group of young adults do great work for our community, but they have a great time volunteering and meeting new people!

We like to thank the kids of the Tzofirm Shnat Sherut Program for all their great work with Met Council, as well as all they are doing for our community!

Congratulations and keep up all the good work!