Beyond Building
While Neris is a disaster consulting agency, we like to go beyond. In our mission to share our values and truly live by them, we want to collect our volunteer efforts, community engagement, corporate giving and more through our beyond building campaign. Keep a lookout for more beyond building content both on our social platforms and website.
2023 – Corporate Sponsorship Bronx Museum & Ryan Health
In the spirit of the holiday season, NERIS LLC is proud to share our commitment to corporate giving. This year we are honored to donate to the Bronx Museum and Ryan Health. The Bronx Museum of the Arts is committed to celebrating the diverse cultural heritage of the Bronx community, which resonates with our values of diversity and inclusion. Similarly, Ryan Health (formerly The William F. Ryan Community Health Network), is a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) based in Manhattan. It has been providing high-quality, comprehensive and affordable primary and specialty care to New York’s diverse and underserved communities since 1967. We are honored to contribute to their mission of ensuring quality healthcare for all.
As we partake in the season of giving, NERIS reflects on our commitment to making a positive impact, both in our business endeavors and in supporting organizations that uplift and empower communities. We believe in the transformative power of art, healthcare, and community support, and we look forward to continuing our philanthropic efforts in the coming year.
Check out upcoming exhibits and plan your next FREE visit here: Bronx Museum
Learn more about the Ryan Health here: Ryan Health
April 2023 – Los Sures Social Services
In April NERIS president Kristine Sinkez along with interns Ifrita Shajedeen and Ahmed Rezwan tackled a two day volunteering venture organized by Los Sures Social Services in Brooklyn. The first day they prepared for food distribution by sorting dry goods and unloading pallets of fresh produce. The second day they went to a local food pantry/cafe to distribute the food to about 300 people, Los Sures Services runs three cafes and provides food for about 1,000 people per week.
2022 NERIS Corporate Giving - Lilac Preservation Project
NERIS is proud to add the LILAC Preservation Project to its corporate giving list this year. Our President, Kristine Sinkez has a deep family connection to the historic boat, as her great uncle John C. Midgett was once captain of the Coast Guard cutter. The formerly active USCGC LILAC is now listed on the National Register of Historic Places and resides in downtown New York City's Tribeca area, it currently acts as a museum ship.
August 2022 - Madisonville Neighborhood Clean Up:
Environmental Manager, Ryan Bowron, and the people in the Madisonville neighborhood of Cincinnati work together to improve the natural settings around them, focusing primarily on the Little Duck Creek Preserve and the nearby Bramble Park. Efforts include monthly volunteer workdays to improve and maintain the wooded trail and clear the surrounding preserve of litter and invasive plant species that would otherwise take over the woods.
Beyond the actual onsite trail work, a task force of residents work with engineers and local government officials to apply for and obtain grant funding from state, local, and private sources for many projects that improve the natural areas in Madisonville. The projects include an upcoming stream restoration effort, bicycle path construction, and larger-scale invasive species removal that need to be contracted out. This group of dedicated volunteers believe that having vibrant natural settings located close to home is extremely helpful to one’s mental, physical, and emotional well-being, especially in an urban setting.
July 2022 - Vision Urbana:
Vision Urbana is an organization that successfully operates a range of programs that assists low-income seniors, families and at-risk youth in the Lower East Side. Partnered with the local NYCHA tenants association, Vision Urbana works directly with over 450 families that reside in Seward Park which is considered one of the poorest communities within the 1.7 mile long CB3 District. Among weekly and monthly health services, Vision Urbana and the tenants of Seward Park have worked together in creating an on-site food pantry program in the Lower East Side neighborhood of Manhattan. Vision Urbana and their volunteers deliver groceries personally to residents weekly. Check out their website here: https://www2.visionurbana.org/
In Neris’ beyond building efforts, president and founder Kristine Sinkez and social media intern Reagan Gerrity dedicated their morning delivering meals to those less fortunate. Volunteering included taking wagons of pre-packaged meals to apartments within government housing and hand-delivering them to each door.
2021 NERIS Corporate Giving - Salvation Army
In honor of Volunteer Week NERIS LLC has donated $1,000 dollars to the Salvation Army. Our President, Kristine Sinkez's Grandfather was on the board of the Salvation Army in Norfolk, Virginia for over 40 years. Pictured above is his Certificate of Life Time Membership. With deep appreciation of volunteers everywhere we solute your kindness and support.
2020 NERIS Corporate Giving
In honor of Kristine’s maternal grandfather, Captain Hugh “Bob” Meert, NERIS made a contribution to the Red Cross. During World War II, one of Captain Meert’s many assignments was to patrol the east coast of the United States for the Dutch Royal Navy as part of the “Allies,” formally the United Nations. During the war, all family members that remained in Indonesia (a Dutch colony at the time) were captured and placed in Japanese concentration camps, many perished. He did not know the fate of his parents for four years, until shortly after Germany and Japan surrendered, when the Red Cross notified him via telegram that his parents were alive and the location where they were now residing.
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