Kathy Reilly Fallon

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re-posted from Norhtern Westchester

by: Swapna Venugopal – Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 21, 2011

Bob’s Discount Furniture Store in Yonkers presented a $5,000 check and 1,000 copies of “Heavenly Skies & Lullabies Books/Cd’s” by Kathy Reilly Fallon last week to Genevieve Piturro, founder of The Pajama Program.

Photo Caption: ( L to R) Cathy Poulin of Bob’s Discount Furniture-Director of Outreach, Genevieve Piturro—Founder of The Pajama Program, Dr. Kathy Reilly Fallon—Founder & Chairwoman of Heavenly Productions Foundation.

Photo Credit: Kathy Reilly Fallon

New York Feels the Touch of Giving from Bob’s Discount Furniture Outreach

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NEW YORK FEELS THE TOUCH OF GIVING FROM BOB’S DISCOUNT FURNITURE OUTREACH
Local Retailer Donates More Than $20,000 To Local Communities, Including 1,000 Books To The Pajama Program During Event At Its Yonkers Store

(Manchester, CT) February 11, 2011 – Bob’s Discount Furniture, with 40 retail store locations throughout New England, New Jersey and New York, announces today, that during the month of February, Bob’s Outreach program, including the Random Acts of Kindness campaign, will take place in the great state of New York. Designed to give back to local education and communities, the program will continue throughout the year and reach each state in which Bob’s operates.

Bob’s customers can participate in the program, too.  In each Bob’s Discount Furniture store, containers located in the store cafés are available to collect donations. At the end of each month, Bob’s collects the donations and delivers them to randomly chosen schools in the area. Through its Bob’s Outreach efforts, Bob’s Discount Furniture has supported education in the communities surrounding each of its store locations with a special focus on children, as well as art and academic initiatives.

For the month of February, the lucky $1,000 winners in New York are:
1. Roy C. Ketcham High, Wappinger Falls
2. Mount Carmel Holy Rosary School, New York City
3. Clarkstown North Senior High School, New York City
4. Phyls Academy Preparatory School, Brooklyn
5. Old Bethpage Elementary School, Old Bethpage

In addition, as part of its ongoing Random Acts of Kindness campaign, Bob’s is making donations of $1,500 each to:
1. Harlem Children Zone Headstart, New York City
2. The Queens College School for Math, Science and Technology, Queens
3. P.S. 11 Queens School, Woodside

Bob’s relies on those who live in its local communities to recommend non-profits to receive the Random Acts of Kindness donations. By going into their local store or sending an email to outreachvan@mybobs.com, people are asked to help Bob’s identify local organizations they feel are most deserving of the donation.

This month, Bob’s will also be making its yearly donation to the Pajama Program, an organization committed to providing warm pajamas and books to kids around the country, many of whom are waiting for a home.  Bob’s partnered with Dr. Kathy Reilly Fallon, founder of Heavenly Productions Foundation, to create 1,000 copies of a special Bob’s Discount Furniture edition of Heavenly Skies and Lullabies. This book, which includes a CD of the lullabies, was originally written by Dr. Fallon to comfort children affected by tragic events such as September 11th, Hurricane Katrina and the earthquake in Haiti.

“I’ve always thought that the true value of our existence as humans is determined by how we help others,” said Dr. Fallon.  “I am thrilled to be doing something with such a wonderful program. I was so happy that Bob’s had the connection with the Pajama Program to allow us all to partner together. Everything comes full circle in life, especially when you’re trying to help people.”

On the 17th, Bob’s will be hosting an event at its Yonkers store to present Pajama Program Founder and Executive Director, Genevieve Piturro with the 1,000 books as well as a $5,000 donation. Also invited to the event to receive donations are the Principals from each of the three schools receiving a Random Acts of Kindness check. The event is open to all who wish to celebrate this night of giving.

“This month is extremely special to us,” said Cathy Poulin, Public Relations Director, Bob’s Discount Furniture. “Not only do we get to turn our attention to many of the deserving communities in New York by delivering donations through our Bob’s Outreach Program and Random Acts of Kindness, but we also get to make an exceedingly fantastic donation to a wonderful organization, the Pajama Program. We are so proud to be working with Dr. Fallon, and know that her book will bring joy to the children who receive it.”

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BOB’S DISCOUNT FURNITURE HOSTS SPECIAL GIVING EVENT AT YONKERS STORE
Gives 1,000 Books And $5,000 To The Pajama Program, Three New York Schools Receive $1,500 Donations

2/17/2011

On Thursday, February 17th, Bob’s Discount Furniture will host an event at its Yonkers store to present its yearly donation to the Pajama Program, an organization committed to providing warm pajamas and books to kids around the country, many of whom are waiting for a home. This year Bob’s has partnered with Dr. Kathy Reilly Fallon, Founder of Heavenly Productions Foundation, to create 1,000 copies of a special Bob’s Discount Furniture edition of the Heavenly Skies and Lullabies, written by Dr. Fallon. Bob’s will present the 1,000 books along with a $5,000 donation to Founder and Executive Director of the Pajama Program, Genevieve Piturro. During the event principals from three New York schools will also receive Random Acts of Kindness donations of $ $1,500.

The ceremony will include remarks from Cathy Poulin, Bob’s Public Relations Director and TV Personality; Dr. Kathy Reilly Fallon, Founder of the Heavenly Productions Foundation; Genevieve Piturro, Founder and Executive Director of the Pajama Program and Mayor Phillip Amicone. The public is invited to attend the ceremony to support the evening of giving! Presentations will be followed by appetizers and refreshments.

Cathy Poulin, Public Relations Director/TV Personality

Mayor Phillip Amicone, City of Yonkers

Dr. Kathy Reilly Fallon, Founder of Heavenly Productions Foundation

Genevieve Piturro, Founder and Executive Director of the Pajama Program
School Principals to receive RAK donations

ABOUT:  Bob’s Discount Furniture

Bob’s Discount Furniture, with 40 retail store locations throughout New England, New Jersey and New York, announces today, that during the month of February, Bob’s Outreach program, including the Random Acts of Kindness campaign, will take place in the great state of New York. Designed to give back to local education and communities, the program will continue throughout the year and reach each state in which Bob’s operates.

Bob’s customers can participate in the program, too.  In each Bob’s Discount Furniture store, containers located in the store cafés are available to collect donations. At the end of each month, Bob’s collects the donations and delivers them to randomly chosen schools in the area. Through its Bob’s Outreach efforts, Bob’s Discount Furniture has supported education in the communities surrounding each of its store locations with a special focus on children, as well as art and academic initiatives.

This month, Bob’s will also be making its yearly donation to the Pajama Program, an organization committed to providing warm pajamas and books to kids around the country, many of whom are waiting for a home.  Bob’s partnered with Dr. Kathy Reilly Fallon, founder of Heavenly Productions Foundation, to create 1,000 copies of a special Bob’s Discount Furniture edition of Heavenly Skies and Lullabies. This book, which includes a CD of the lullabies, was originally written by Dr. Fallon to comfort children affected by tragic events such as September 11th, Hurricane Katrina and the earthquake in Haiti.

Bob’s Discount Furniture
2500 Central Park Avenue
Yonkers, NY 10710
(914) 202-1200

www.mybobs.com

Northern Westchester Express, August 5, 2010

Northern Westchester Newspaper, Jan 27, 2010

Disasters like the Haitian earthquake have a way of affecting people who aren’t directly involved.

Dr. Kathy Reilly Fallon of Armonk was swept into the fallout of the earthquake when a patient came to her office in New York City needing care for his fractured left foot, ankle and lower leg.

Jean Rodouin, an American citizen born in Haiti, had been visiting the country during the earthquake and came back to his midtown Manhattan apartment with the help of the American Embassy.

He was in the back yard of his home in a Port-au-Prince suburb when the quake struck and the house collapsed. Rodouin was knocked to the ground by falling debris and his wife was buried in the rubble.

“What you see on television is worse when you see it in person,” he said.

As Rodouin lay on the ground not sure if his legs would move, his wife was freed from the collapsed house.

“If you see where she was out this is unbelievable,” Rodouin, who has lived here since 1966, said by phone from his apartment this week. His wife, who spends most of her time in Haiti, has stayed in there and is doing well, he said.

“I know it’s God that let her come out,” he said.

Today, Rodouin, a retired hotel worker, is having an operation to repair his injuries and he will be confined to his house for a time while he recovers. Fallon has asked friends to donate supplies and help cook hot meals to get him through his recovery. She has also organized children to write him get well cards.

Rodouin hopes to return to Haiti when he is recovered and Fallon plans to collect supplies to send with him.

“Thank God they sent me to her,” he said.

BY ELIZABETH GANGA • EGANGA@LOHUD.COM
JANUARY 3, 2010
LoHud.com

ARMONK — The day after terrorists attacked the World Trade Center, Dr. Kathy Reilly Fallon headed down to the Jacob Javits Center in Manhattan to offer any help she could as a foot and ankle surgeon to the emergency personnel and construction workers looking for survivors and recovering bodies among the rubble. Soon Fallon was spending three days a week at St. Paul’s Chapel across from Ground Zero tending to cuts, blisters and tendinitis in the workers.
“It was a very emotional time,” she said. “But yet it was a very spiritual time for me.”

Fallon, now 41 and practicing medicine in Manhattan, spent about eight weeks volunteering, and when she was done, she still felt there was more to do.

That’s when she decided to use her other skill, her voice, to raise money to help the orphans of Sept. 11. Her husband, James Fallon, had set up a recording studio in their house in Armonk and they decided to make an album, drawing on singers and musicians they knew from around the region, including Frank Pellegrino, the actor and co-owner of Manhattan’s famed Rao’s Restaurant.

The result was a CD called “Heavenly Lullabies” including tunes from “Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star” to music by Chopin and Brahms, 24 in all. The development of the CD culminated on Sept. 11, 2003, with a concert in Manhattan with the money from ticket and CD sales going to the Twin Towers Orphan Fund, based in Bakersfield, Calif. The fund helps orphans of 9/11 with educational, medical and mental health expenses.

Michele Ritter, the CEO and president of the fund, said when Fallon contacted them with the idea, she felt grateful and identified with her desire to help.

After the attacks, Ritter said, “most Americans, from the very young to the very old, felt a deep need to help — in whatever way they could. That’s how we felt when we started this charity. It was new territory for us, just like it was for Dr. Fallon. She pulled together people she knew, and those she didn’t, to create something bigger than themselves — simply to help others.”

Fallon’s nonprofit, the Heavenly Productions Foundation, whose mission is to help children in distress, has given the Twin Towers Orphan Fund about $15,000. The Web site is heavenlylullabies.org .
Out of the first project grew a second to help children affected by Hurricane Katrina, an illustrated book of music and lyrics called “Heavenly Skies & Lullabies” that comes with a CD. The book was completed in 2006, on the first anniversary of Katrina, and the money was donated to World Vision, a Christian humanitarian organization.

Fallon has also held other musical fundraisers and donated money, CDs or both to Friends of Karen, Gilda’s Club, the March of Dimes and other organizations .

Her next project is a Celtic album she’s hoping to have done in time for St. Patrick’s Day. The proceeds will go to help children with cancer.

In October, Fallon was appointed to the board of directors of the March of Dimes New York State Chapter, Northern Metro Division, and is busy raising money for them as well.

“I wanted to embrace it because I think it’s a wonderful organization,” she said.

But Fallon isn’t done yet. She has more plans to develop projects to give kindergarteners and first-graders books and in the future to do medical missionary work. It’s a compulsion to help.

“It just strikes a chord in me,” she said.