How Your Gift Makes an Impact

In Fiscal Year 2011 Hope for New York has:

  • Distributed $1,169,511 in grants to organizations serving the poor and marginalized
  • Contributed 39,325 volunteer hours to 30+ organizations

    These volunteers hours are equivalent to $1,057,174 in labor according to the Independent Sector.1

 

(1)  The Independent Sector is a coalition of leading nonprofits, foundations, and corporations. The most recently published value of volunteer time in NY State, as of 2009, was $27.17 per hour based on U.S. Bureau of Labor statistics.