Meet Gretchen Boeskool, regular volunteer for Project Hospitality!

This December the Mayor’s Volunteer Center of NYC is ringing in the holiday season by celebrating NYC nonprofit, Project Hospitality.

 

Established in 1982, Project Hospitality started as an interfaith volunteer organization with one food pantry and one soup kitchen which marked the opening of Staten Island’s first volunteer run shelter for homeless men. Today Project Hospitality has been opening its doors to all men, women, and children in need. Their organization is as diverse as the population it serves offering programs from HIV/AIDS education to affordable housing advocacy.

Project Hospitality (PH) is an interfaith organization focused on reaching out to community members who are hungry, homeless or otherwise in need. Their mission is to help members of the underserved community achieve self-sufficiency thereby improving the quality of life for the NYC community as a whole. To learn more, please click on the following link: ttp://www.volunteernyc.org/org/1115207.html

Project Hospitality could not realize their mission without the help of dedicated volunteers who generously give their time to help their less fortunate neighbors. PH works with hundreds of volunteers from across the country- and even the globe- every year to serve those in need in the Staten Island community. Long term volunteer turned staffer, Gretchen Boeskool, says, “Project Hospitality’s volunteers, staff, and clients have taught me what it really means to care for people.”
Gretchen says, “At Project Hospitality there is hope for every person who walks through the door. We don’t give up on anyone. We don’t care where our clients came from, or what they’ve done; we do our best to help each individual live a fulfilling life within their community.”

 

Congratulations to Gretchen and all the entire Project Hospitality family for being one of Snapple’s Best People in NYC!