by Communications Office | Sep 19, 2024 | home, Ministries, NEWS, Sisters of Charity Archives
By Mindy Gordon, Archives Director Did you know… In 1869, with five dollars and the encouragement of her superiors, Sr. Mary Irene Fitzgibbon opened the New York Foundling Hospital as a response to the increase in infanticide and the number of destitute children in...
by Communications Office | Jul 11, 2022 | Ministries, NEWS, Vision
By Ella Schwarzbaum, Assistant Farmer The farm season is now well underway! When I talk to friends and family about what we are growing at the farm, someone is always bound to ask if we grow organically. Ella brings in the eggplant harvest, all picked in just a few...
by Communications Office | Apr 6, 2022 | Ministries, NEWS, Sisters of Charity Ministry Network
The New York Foundling President Melanie Hartzog (center) visited Sisters of Charity Center with Elizabeth Wright, Assistant VP, Marketing & Communications (left) and Ellen Eng, Ms. Hartzog’s Chief of Staff (right). The New York Foundling’s new President...
by Communications Office | Mar 1, 2022 | home, Ministries, NEWS, Sponsored Ministries
On February 11, 2022, twenty students from Saint Raymond Academy for Girls in the Bronx participated in an Engineering Day of Discovery. The experience was made possible by the goodwill of the New York office of the Thornton Tomasetti engineering firm and a staff...
by Communications Office | Feb 15, 2022 | home, Ministries, NEWS, Sponsored Ministries, Vision
The following is from the Winter 2022 issue of VISION. The New York Foundling welcomed Melanie Hartzog as the organization’s new President and CEO on January 18. Hartzog will succeed longtime leader, Bill Baccaglini, who is retiring. Hartzog, who recently completed...
by Communications Office | Dec 4, 2020 | Ministries, NEWS
On a sunny fall day this past October, members of Fordham University’s Murray Weigel Kohlmann Jesuit Community traveled from their home on the Rose Hill campus in the Bronx to Sisters Hill Farm, the Sisters of Charity farm ministry in Dutchess County. Twelve people...
