As we have consistently done in years past, W&M once again sponsored the Westchester-Putnam Counties Special Olympics, Fairfield/Westchester Counties March of Dimes, Stamford Center for the Arts, and the White Plains Beautification Adopt a Park Program. This past spring, W&M employees planted flowering annuals at the CTE Lathon Wider Community Center, in conjunction with the annual spring clean-up and planting campaign sponsored by Keep Stamford Beautiful. Each Thanksgiving, W&M sponsors a giant helium balloon in Stamford's annual Thanksgiving Day Parade, a project of the Downtown Stamford Special Services District. Our annual food drives at our buildings support St. Luke's LifeWorks, Bread & Roses, The Salvation Army of White Plains and Norwalk Emergency Shelter. We also sponsor a year-end holiday gift drive in our buildings so that our employees and tenants may donate gifts to the U.S. Marine Corps' Toys for Tots and The Westchester County Salvation Army's "Wish Upon a Star" programs. Another philanthropic initiative undertaken annually by W&M is our Show, Lease and Win™ program, through which we donate more than $5,000 to the United Ways of Westchester County, Stamford and Norwalk in the name of the brokerage firms with the most signed leases in our Westchester and Fairfield properties. W&M also works to raise money and equipment for the Polish National Youth Baseball Foundation, which distributes equipment to underprivileged children in Poland and Central Europe. This year, in addition to the annual check W&M gives to the organization, we also sent a flyer to our tenants, asking them to donate used athletic equipment. W&M's charitable reach also extends to the future development of the Stamford community through our support of Stamford's South End Neighborhood Revitalization Zone, an initiative aimed at beautifying this neighborhood, and The Mill River Park Collaborative, an organization of public service, neighborhood, business and municipal government representatives committed to the full realization of the potential for a new Mill River Greenway. Finally, in a new addition to its list of charitable outreach programs, W&M worked with tenant The Thomson Corporation to organize a non-profit Volunteer Fair, which was a forum for local charities to reach potential volunteers and share information about programs and services. In addition, W&M and Thomson are now working on establishing a program for literacy volunteers in Stamford and Greenwich to combat illiteracy.
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