Advocate/Activist
Winner: Food Bank of the Hudson Valley
2nd Place: Hudson Valley LGBTQ Center
3rd Place: Randi Kelder, Raising Your Awareness About Narcotics (RYAN)
Fundraising Event
Winner: Food Bank of the Hudson Valley Farm-to-Fork Feast 2nd Place: Hope Rocks Festival
3rd Place: RYAN’s Run 5K
Green Business
Winner:Bread Alone Bakery
2nd Place: The Ashokan Center
3rd Place: Sound Earth
Organization
Winner: Catskill Animal Sanctuary
315 Old Stage Road, Saugerties
(845) 336-8447
https://casanctuary.org/
Catskill Animal Sanctuary is home to 11 species of farmed animals rescued from cruelty, neglect, and abandonment. Since 2001, countless animals have felt love for the first time at this 150-acre refuge in New York’s Hudson Valley. Thousands of visitors, both in-person and online, have fallen in love with the Sanctuary’s programs: the Compassionate Cuisine cookbook & classes, CAS:Live broadcasts, the All Beings Considered podcast, and more! Go to casanctuary.org to see why our motto is “Love Spoken Here.”
2nd Place: Christmas Wishes Ulster County
3rd Place: Grannies Respond/Abuelas Responden
This article appears in July 2020.
