Bob’s Discount Furniture Donates to Bronx School

June 18, 2008  by in UnCategorized   

By Home Furnishings Business in Furniture Retailing on June 2008 New England retailer Bob’s Discount Furniture has donated two laptop computers and $500 to the Anna Mersereau Intermediate School for student research and project programs in Bronx, N.Y. The new Bob’s Discount Furniture Community Outreach Van recently visited the school and several other locations in the region with donations.

“After recently kicking-off our Community Outreach Van Program where we actually surprise needy organizations with donated items, I thought helping students by providing new technology and new computers was one of the most effective ways to promote a better education,” said Cathy Poulin of Bob’s Discount Furniture. “So we responded to a request we received months ago by one of the teachers at the school.”

The Anna Cross Mersereau Intermediate School MS206 is located at 2280 Aqueduct Avenue, Bronx, NY and is headed by the school’s Principal David Neering. “From the daily writing and research projects to learning how to utilize relevant software, our students were very happy about the new additions to our classrooms,” said David Neering, principal of the school.

“We developed the idea about a community outreach van after realizing that it could help coordinate our charitable foundation’s efforts even more effectively,” said Bob Kaufman, president of Bob’s Discount Furniture. “Our outreach van has enabled us to work with even more nonprofit groups on a more frequent basis. From child and senior citizen support programs to wheelchair and educational supply campaigns, the Bob’s Discount Furniture Community Outreach Van is now ‘on the road’ in the tri-state region performing random acts of kindness and making our community a better place one stop at a time.”

Organizations that are interested in being selected for a “random act of kindness” should e-mail a request to outreachvan@mybobs.com. One organization is selected at random each month.