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Severe health outbreaks in New York City. A home for children that was tragically destroyed by fire. A serious fire at agency headquarters on Park Place in Manhattan, followed two years later by shuttered offices in the wake of September 11th. The care of orphaned and...

We’re closing out National Volunteer Month with a shout-out to Joan Fuerch. She started volunteering with our New LIFE Center food pantry 14 years ago. Four mornings a week, Joan carries out various jobs. She enjoys working closely with our clients and maintaining a...

For the past 3 years, Phil Ferrato has volunteered with Lutheran Family and Community Services’ New LIFE Center Food Pantry. He is always willing to help with any task that needs to be done at the pantry.   Sometimes his day starts early, as he travels to Eisenhower...

Diane Kelly has volunteered at Lutheran Family and Community Services since September 2000, in the food pantry and layette program.  Presently, she serves as the volunteer in charge of the layette program for low-income families with new babies.  She coordinates and...

Two hundred Easter baskets filled with coffee, tea, hot chocolate, cookies, pudding, juice, cake mix with frosting, fruit, and candy Twenty-four layettes for young infants Chicken, ham, or turkey for the holiday table Things many of us take for granted which make all...

“I was impressed. They had a better chemistry lab than I had,” says LSSNY board member Rebecca Johnson of her tour of The New Life School — a therapeutic learning environment where the classroom fits the child and not the other way around. Seeing the classrooms,...

Sometimes bureaucracy and geography can have serious life consequences. A family at our Brooklyn sanctuary site, Fortitude House, learned that their court case/master hearing had been scheduled in Cleveland, Ohio — miles away. Donika Prelvukaj, LMSW, Program Director...

Small acts of kindness can make a big impact. Guadalupe Contreras is a resident at our Muhlenberg residence. He is taking online courses to get a degree in online security, yet he didn’t have a computer of his own. Our Executive Director for Residential Services,...

How do you go from being general counsel for the New York Yankees to a critical board member of Lutheran Social Services of New York (LSSNY)? At the Life Lutheran Church in Old Westbury, Rachel Cohen served as missions coordinator for home and abroad. Donating to...