Salon & Spa Mixer
to Raise Funds for Samaritan House

On Monday, July 12th, 2010 from 12PM-3PM a FREE event for Spas & Salons plus the general public will be held at the Women's Club of White Plains the former CV Rich Mansion at 305 Ridgeway Avenue in White Plains, NY.

Sample Italian delicacies from Ernesto's Restaurant of White Plains paired with wine from Aries Wine. Find out more about skin care and featured product GrandeLASH-MD and eye lash conditioner.

Proceeds from door raffles will benefit the Samaritan House Women's Shelter which is run by Grace Church Community Center.

Soup Kitchen Receives Donation from Beta Zeta Foundation

This check for $1,000 will be used to purchase food for the GCCC Soup Kitchen, the only soup kitchen in White Plains open every Monday to Friday and on all holidays.

Each year the Soup Kitchen serves more than 20,000 meals to hungry Westchester residents.

Winter Coat Drive to Benefit
Homeless Men and Women

Rye, NY.- The Rye City Lions Club, Rye Rotary, and The Osborn Retirement Community are partnering this winter to collect much needed winter coats for homeless men and women. The coats will be distributed at The Open Arms Men’s Shelter and the Samaritan House Women’s Shelter in White Plains, NY. New or clean, gently used coats are being collected every Tuesday in January at Miriam’s Attic, The Osborn’s Resale Shop, between 10:00 am and 4:00 pm. The Osborn is located at 101 Theall Road in Rye, NY. Complete Story...

Ninety people gathered in the Parish Hall of Grace Church October 22 to celebrate the 20th Anniversary of Open Arms, a men’s shelter that provides housing and rehabilitative services for up to 50 homeless men from its location at 86 East Post Road, in the heart of White Plains.

Open Arms is one of the nine programs operated by Grace Church Community Center (GCCC), an $8 million nonprofit social services agency that is celebrating 30 years of serving the community this year as well. Complete Story

121 Restaurant & Bar in North Salem served up something a little different on Columbus Day weekend, offering visitors hors d’oeuvres and drinks seasoned with a little art and jazz. 

The restaurant hosted an art opening for two local artists, Donna Rossi an abstract impressionist a member of the Brown Street Studios in Peekskill and Linda Austrian, award winning photographer and active member of the Color Camera Club of Westchester, the Westchester Photographic Society and the Mamaroneck Artists Guild. Complete Story

Grace Church Community Center, Inc. (GCCC) Celebrated its 30th Anniversary on May 14, 2009 at The Ritz-Carlton Westchester in White Plains, NY. The evening was dedicated to honor and pay tribute to those who have played an instrumental role in shaping the 30-year history of GCCC and to those who have helped lay the foundation for a future of continued service to our neighbors. Complete Story

More than thirty women from Samaritan House, Providence House, Oasis and My Sister’s Place participated in interactive games and exercises at the March 28th event sponsored by the Avon Foundation for Women in partnership with Grace Church Community Center. Appropriately named “Women of Strength”, the event was held in the parish hall at Grace Episcopal Church in White Plains.  Complete Story

Charles Cohen of Cohen Brothers Realty and Mayor Joseph Delphino present $1,000 check and coats to Paul Anderson-Winchell, Executive Director GCCC.

350 Coats Donated

The White Plains Winter Warmth coat drive had owners and managers of major office buildings working together to solicit contributions of winter coats, gloves and hats for donation to the Open Arms men’s shelter. Building owners participating in the program were Cohen Brothers Realty, Cappelli Enterprises, Calano & Calano, LLP and the New York Power Authority. A total of 350 men’s, women’s and children’s coats were collected... Complete Story

KeyBank and the KeyBank Charitable Foundation donate $5,000

KeyBank Makes Grant To Support Economic Development in White Plains

White Plains, NY- KeyBank has awarded two grants totaling $5,000 to Grace Church Community Center (GCCC) to support the opening of a Training Center for Home Health Aides.  The Training Center will be opened in 2009 as part of GCCC’s Neighbors Home Care Services Agency which has been providing care for elderly and disabled residents of Westchester County since 1983. ...Complete Story

The Scarsdale Golf Club donates half of the proceeds from their annual Turkey Shoot-Out

Scarsdale Golf Club Hosts Turkey Shoot-Out

Scarsdale, NY- The Scarsdale Golf Course hosted its Second Annual “Thanksgiving Turkey Shootout” on Saturday November 22nd to raise funds to support the Grace Church Community Center Soup Kitchen in White Plains and the Westchester Coalition for the Hungry and Homeless which provides funding for countywide food pantries and soup kitchens. ...Complete Story

Ribbon-cutting opens new Grace Church Community Center facility

Grace Church Community Center
Grand Opening of New Facility

White Plains, NY, October 16, 2008 – Grace Church Community Center’s Grand Opening of its new facility at 35 Orchard Street in White Plains took place on October 16. On hand for the ribbon cutting were County Executive Andrew J. Spano and wife, Brenda Resnick-Spano, Hon. Amy Paulin, NY State Assemblywoman, Hon. William J. Ryan and Senator Suzi Oppenheimer. More than 100 guests from local businesses and nonprofit agencies attended, along with other city and county officials, including Hon. Glen Hockley and Commissioner Susan Habel, representing Mayor Delfino’s office. ...Complete Story

Girl, 8, Gives Generous Gift to Soup Kitchen

May 15, 2008 – Soup Kitchen donor is an 8-year-old from Hawthorne, NY

One of the most surprising and inspiring donations to a local Soup Kitchen did not come from a wealthy businessperson or prominent politician, but an 8-year-old girl named Ileana Katzman of Hawthorne, NY. Ileana donated money to the Grace Church Community Center, Inc. (GCCC) Soup Kitchen which she raised by asking 16 of her friends who were invited to her birthday party at the Westchester Skating Rink on April 3rd to make a contribution in lieu of a gift. Proud parents, Sheri and Steven Katzman matched the funds and a grand total of $1,000 was presented on April 24th to Sister Alice Conrad, Supervisor of the Soup Kitchen. Complete Story

Word from the Street

White Plains, NY, August 2007 –

She calls out to the man on the street
Sir can you help me?
Its cold and I’ve nowhere to sleep

17 years ago, Phil Collins popularized the plight of individuals living in the streets. Today, for almost 750,000 homeless Americans, that plight is still a reality that’s a far cry from a “day in paradise”.

Some of the luckier ones have found their way to one of the homeless shelters in White Plains operated by Grace Church Community Center (GCCC). Many of those have put their experiences and frustrations into the lyrics of songs and poetry and, on Sunday, August 13th, they will share their work with the public, and with each other, in a performance aptly entitled “Word From the Street”. Complete Story

Junior League Outfits
Samaritan House Women’s Shelter

White Plains, NY, December 18, 2006 – Each spring and fall, new members of the Junior League of Central Westchester (JLCW), known as “provisionals”, tackle a community project designed to help them bond as well as train them to be effective volunteers...Complete Story

Lisa D’Angelo to be Honored by Grace Church Community Center

December 2005 - Lisa D’Angelo of Hitchcock Presbyterian Church in Scarsdale will be honored by the Grace Church Community Center (GCCC) at their “Event of Note” benefit concert to be held on December 3rd at the Performing Arts Center in Purchase...Complete Story

Fundraising Event Raises $55,000 -White Plains Resident Honored

White Plains, NY – December 3, 2005  - Guests of the Grace Church Community Center (GCCC) enjoyed an incomparable evening of jazz performed by the Jon Faddis quartet at the agency’s December 3rd fundraising event at the Purchase Performing Arts Center.  The event raised over $55,000...Complete Story

Grace Community Center Soup Kitchen

For 30 years, the hungry of Westchester--an ironic image in this prosperous county-- have been coming to the Grace Church Community Center Soup Kitchen for a hot, nutritious mid-day meal...Complete Story

Peter Herrero from Sam’s of Gedney Way Honored At Open Arms Anniversary Party

September 13, 2005 - Every Monday for more than 15 years, Peter Herrero, proprietor of  Sam’s of Gedney Way restaurant, has donated trays of hot food to the Open Arms men’s shelter in White Plains; enough food to provide the shelter’s 38 homeless residents with one, and sometimes two, nutritious evening meals...Complete Story

Grace Church Community Center Appoints New Executive Director

White Plains, NY, July 29, 2005 – The Board of Directors of Grace Church Community Center has announced the appointment of Mr. Paul Anderson-Winchell of Bloomingburg, NY as its new Executive Director. Mr. Anderson-Winchell takes up his position on Monday, August 8, 2005...Complete Story

Local Homeless Shelters Donate to Hurricane Katrina Relief

They don’t have much, but homeless residents of the Open Arms men’s shelter and Samaritan House women’s shelter in downtown White Plains, were so moved by the suffering of the victims of Hurricane Katrina, that they dug into their pockets last week to contribute over $50 to the Hurricane Relief Fund...Complete Story. 

Scarsdale Girl Donates Items for Summer Camp

Most 10 year olds dream about all the gifts they’ll receive on their Birthday.  Not Tamara Covil.  This Scarsdale 10 year old dreamed about sharing her Birthday fortune with needy children. So she asked the 10 kids invited to her Birthday party to bring swimsuits, towels and goggles to donate to the homeless boys and girls...Complete Story

Whole Foods Volunteers Assist Grace Church Community Center in Preparation for Renovations

White Plains, NY – July 1, 2005 – Ten to fourteen volunteers from the White Plains Whole Foods store will assist Grace Church Community Center (GCCC) Day Care staff in the packing of all Day Care supplies and equipment for temporary storage in preparation for summer renovations of its facility...Complete Story

A Salute to Our Stars Brunch

April 10, 2005 - 50 supporters of Grace Community Center (GCCC), the largest social services agency in Westchester County, gathered for an outdoor brunch at the West Harrison home of Doctor Richard E. Graham and Regina Taylor-Graham on Sunday April 10th to honor its volunteers and donors and raise $11,000 for the agency’s programs...Complete Story

Edgemont Girl Scouts Donate Food to Men’s Shelter

November 2004 - It wasn’t about earning badges. It was simply about demonstrating the spirit of sharing and caring when, two days before Thanksgiving, Brownies from Edgemont Girl Scout Troop GSWP1973 delivered turkey with all the fixings for distribution to the Open Arms men’s shelter in White Plains...Complete Story

Senator Hillary Clinton and Congresswoman Nita Lowey
Visit Grace Church Community Center Soup Kitchen and Day Care