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New Friends

The New Friends Committee is a group of young professionals, led by energizing board member Marianne Maguire, who raise funds for the Family Life Program through various social events aimed at a new generation of “friends” of the Little Sisters of the Assumption Family Health Service.

As a New Friend, you can offer your time to the extent that you are able. We know that young people working in the city are busy, so all we ask is that you have a genuine interest in assisting in some way to help make our New Friends fundraising events fun and successful.

You can offer your assistance in a variety of ways -- from finding raffle or silent auction items to locating a viable space for an event, from helping to publicize the event to designing or printing invitations. Simply offering to bring your friends to an event is a valuable contribution.

In the future, we may have opportunities for New Friends to volunteer their time in a more direct service capacity. For instance: taking a group on an outing or becoming a mentor. We will be announcing other New Friends’ activities and opportunities as they develop.

Program Name: New Friends Committee
Contact: Trish Gough
Phone: (646) 672-0434
Time Commitment: Typically, we meet as a committee to plan two events a year - usually one in the spring, and one in the fall. Meetings become more frequent closer to the date of the event.

Regular meeting attendance is not mandatory to be considered a New Friend. You may find your own way to support the New Friends committee, which could be as simple as encouraging a group of your friends to attend the event.

How are the funds raised from New Friends events used by the Family Life Program?

Our families are able to enjoy special trips and events for children and adults. Some of the outings include trips to Bear Mountain, Rye Playland, Sesame Place, Roosevelt Park, the Bronx Zoo, Lake Welsh, Great Adventure, and Liberty Science Center. We also take families to Yankees and Mets games, and trips to the country and to the beach.

Last summer, we had the most outings ever for families -- 44 trips, which served over 1,000 community members. Typically, the funds raised from New Friends’ events have covered well over half the costs of the entire summer trips program.