National Day of Service and Remembrance

Met Council’s Emergency Preparedness Event

As part of President Obama’s nationwide United We Serve campaign, Met Council has conducted several community service projects that focused on creating safer and better prepared communities by providing over 45 low income seniors with emergency identification resources that ensure more timely and effective treatment in the event of a medical emergency.

On September 11, the United We Serve campaign culminated with the National Day of Service and Remembrance. To commemorate this day, Met Council held an Emergency Preparedness event that educated low income seniors on how to be prepared for different emergency situations.

Twelve dedicated volunteers, including a group from Morgan Stanley, came out on a rainy Friday afternoon to help make 14 medical identification cards, give out resources such as maps, winter gear, candles, and distribute informational hand-outs covering such emergencies as fire, extreme heat, thunderstorms, and flu viruses.

Thank you to everyone who helped make this feat possible!

Goodbye to Devin

This past Thursday marks my last day interning at Met Council this summer. While I am exciting for the coming school year, I cannot help but feel some nostalgia. It does not seem like seven weeks have passed, nor that summer is almost over. Every day in the office was a learning experience for me: whether it was about Met Council’s services, the state of poverty in this country, or even the people who I have had the pleasure of working with. I do not know where I will be working next summer; perhaps another stint at 80 Maiden Lane is in order. What I do know, however, is that the lessons and memories of my time here will stay with me for as long as I live. I will have the poor, the unemployed, the disadvantaged on my mind, and will never take for the granted the opportunities and comforts that I have so luckily been blessed with. Met Council and the people who work there have helped me come to realize that I am one small part of a greater community and country. But, with each of us working hard, we can end poverty, strife, and hunger in New York City, in the United States, and around world. I made a difference this summer, and for that I will be forever proud.
It has been great sharing my summer internship with you.

I hope that you too will get involved with Met Council and make a positive change in NYC!

Apples for the New Year!

NYU’s Stern School of Business volunteers at the food warehouse

Thirty transfer students from NYU’s Stern School of Business took time out of their Orientation Week on September 1st to volunteer at Met Council’s food warehouse to help package apples.

The group of volunteers made over 1600 bags and 105 boxes of apples to be redistributed to families in need during the High Holidays. Thank you to all thirty NYU volunteers who made this feat possible!