We are a volunteer group based in the Hudson Valley of New York. Our mission: to provide handmade and donated PPE for vulnerable populations.
Our administrative team:
- Rena Leinberger (renaleinberger@gmail.com), Founder and Coordinator, Community Outreach
- Alison Spodek (alison.spodek@gmail.com), Logistics and Science
- Kimberly Ruth (kimberly.e.ruth@gmail.com), PR and Social Media
- Lynn Esteban (brickandbutton@gmail.com), Mask Maven
How to help our team:
https://paypal.me/covidavengers
Venmo: @Alison-Spodek
Cash app: $RenaLeinberger
Contributions in any amount are so helpful and appreciated! We cover shipping, fabric, and other supplies. We also purchase prefabricated masks at discount in bulk, filters, and disposable masks for housing insecure populations.
Sponsors:
We are incredibly grateful to our many donors, and our new sponsor, the Awesome Newburgh Foundation!
Our group has sent more than 55,000 masks out to hospitals, healthcare facilities, and grassroots organizations supporting vulnerable populations, including:
- Kingston Hospital
- We Are Newburgh
- Montefiore Medical Center – Moses Division
- NYU- Winthrop Hospital, Long Island
- Saint George’s Episcopal Church Food Pantry, Newburgh
- SNUG, Newburgh
- Catholic Charities
- Astor Services for Children and Families
- Habitat for Humanity, Newburgh
- Long Island Jewish Medical Center
- Black Lives Matter Hudson Valley
- Midnight Food Run, NYC
- Good Samaritan Hospital, Suffern
- Mid-Hudson Hospital
- NYP Hudson Valley ER
- DOT Strategies, Bronx
- Clover Lake Living
- Woodland Pond CCRC
- Northern Dutchess Wound Care
- Stonybrook University Hospital
- Hudson River Housing
- The Pines at Poughkeepsie – Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation
- Greystone Programs
- Grace Smith House, Poughkeepsie
- Hudson Regional Pharmacy
- River and Mountain Midwives
- St. Luke’s Cornwall Hospital
- Vassar ER
- Burke Rehabilitation Center
- Hudson Valley Hospice
- Northern Dutchess Hospital Wound Care
- Liturgia Rural Worker Education Center
- Children’s Medical Group
- Coney Island Hospital
- Newburgh LGBTQ Center
- Food Not Bombs, Newburgh
- Lake Street Housing, Newburgh
- Burton Towers, Newburgh
- Ellenville Regional Hospital
- Center for Urban Community Services, NYC
- NYP Queens – Respiratory Care
- Safe Homes of Orange County
- Dutchess Outreach
- Dutchess Community Matters
- Samaritan Daytop Village Veritas House Community Residence
- MidHudson Forensic Psychiatric Center
- Glebe House, Poughkeepsie
- Devereaux Advanced Behavioral Health
- HealthQuest
- Community Based Services, Salem, NY
- Green Teen, Beacon
- St. Mary’s Outreach, Newburgh
- Newburgh Housing Authority
- Watermark Retirement Community
- Clinton Hill / Fort Greene Mutual Aid
- Hedgewood Home for Adults
- Pinon Health Center – Navajo Nation
- One for All – Interfaith Food Drive
- Newburgh Mutual Aid
- CAIPA, NYC
- Krucial Staffing
- BronxCare Hospital ED
- Park Slope Center for Successful Aging
- Women In Need, NYC
- Masks4Medicine, New York
- MaskTransit, New York
- Middletown Police Department
- Newburgh Enlarged School District, Lunch Programs
- Newburgh PD
- Fire Station 32, Brooklyn
- MaskTransit, Washington, DC
- Hackensack University Medical Center
- Orange Regional Hospital
- Family of Kingston
- Family of Woodstock
- Crystal Run Health Care
- People’s Place, Kingston
- Heart to Heart International
- Zuni Nation
- Navajo Nation
- Seeding Sovereignty
- St. Clare’s Hospital, NJ
- Beacon Library
- Neighborhood Association for Intercultural Affairs, Bronx
- Mt. Vernon Central School District – and the Office of School Improvement (Dr.Bennett-Conroy)
- Hedgewood Home for Adults, Beacon
- Fearless
- Youth Advocate Programs, Newburgh
- RECAP, Newburgh
- LYNC Community, Newburgh
- OSS Project, Bronx and Manhattan
- Jacobi Medical Center
- Jucarilla Child and Family Education Center, Apache Nation
- Bellevue Hospital
- Rainbow Garden of Health and Life, Bronx
- Head Start Eastern Orange County
- Beacon Lunch Staff
- Youth Advocate Programs
- Newburgh Ministry
- Indianapolis Red Cross
- Newburgh Free Library
- Marc’s Friends At Risk Teen Group
- Boys and Girls Club
- Cathedral at the House, Newburgh
- Beyond 4 Walls, Kingston
- Dozens of individual medical care workers who have reached out directly
Many more essential workers who have reached out directly
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