NYSE Brokers Ensure Holiday Dinner is on the Table for 120,000 New Yorkers in Need

Contacts:
Ellen Lubell,
The Children’s Aid Society
(w) 212-949-4938,
(c) 917-854-6864

NYSE Brokers Ensure Holiday Dinner is on the Table for 120,000 New Yorkers in Need.

15,000 Turkey Dinners for 8 Donated
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When:
Friday, December 23, 2005 12 noon

Where:
The Children’s Aid Society’s Dunlevy Milbank Center
14-32 West 118th Street, (between Fifth and Lenox)

Where:
The Children’s Aid Society’s East Harlem Center
130 East 101st Street, between Park and Lexington Avenues

When:
Friday, December 23rd 2005 6pm (tentative--please call 212-348-2343 to confirm time)

What:
On Friday the 23rd, hundreds of turkey dinners – each feeding eight – will be distributed to families at The Children’s Aid Society’s Dunlevy Milbank and East Harlem Centers. The dinners include a fully cooked 12 lb. turkey and all the trimmings. The dinners are frozen, designed to be prepared at home, so families can customize the meal to suit their tastes and traditions and enjoy them in a familiar setting.

Thanks to the generosity of floor brokers at the New York Stock Exchange, 15,000 turkey dinners will be distributed in total by The Children’s Aid Society (CAS) to families in need this season.

Who:
The 24-year-old Christmas Dinner Fund is an entirely voluntary effort by NYSE floor brokers who “pass the hat” on the trading floor and raise a substantial sum in a brief period of time. Arthur Cashin and Mark Feeley, two high-level financial executives, founded the Fund. It is supported by hundreds who work on the floor of the Exchange and want to share the holiday spirit with those who are less fortunate.

The Children’s Aid Society was founded in 1853. It is one of the nation’s oldest and largest non-sectarian agencies, serving over 150,000 of New York’s neediest children and their families with a network of services that includes community schools, neighborhood centers, camps, adoption and foster care services, teen pregnancy prevention, education, health and recreation.

For additional information please call 212-949-4938 or visit www.childrensaidsociety.org.