Company Profile
New York Foundling
Company Overview
Founded as a home for abandoned children, The New York Foundling has been saving children, preserving families and building communities since 1869. The agency helps children, youth and adults in need through advocacy and through preventive and in-care services that help each individual reach his or her potential. In the tradition of openness and compassion of its sponsors, the Sisters of Charity, the agency touches the lives of more than 13,000 people each year in the New York City area and in Puerto Rico as it upholds its guiding principle: Abandon No One.
Company History
When gas lights were in vogue and Ulysses S. Grant was President, Sr. Mary Irene Fitzgibbon and a small group of devoted Sisters opened The Foundling Asylum of the Sisters of Charity to care for babies abandoned in the devastating wake of the Civil War. On October 11, 1869, on the first night in their small Greenwich Village brownstone, an infant was left on their doorstep. By January, 123 babies had been delivered into the Sisters' care. Within a year, a larger house was secured. But this also proved to be too small for the overwhelming need…
While our mission has remained clear, the means with which we are fulfilling it have evolved with the changing needs of those we serve. As we look to the needs of today's children we have removed "hospital" from our name, reinforcing our identity as The New York Foundling: an agency that continues to care for the needs of the most vulnerable among us.
Benefits
The New York Foundling has a comprehensive benefits package:
• Paid Vacation
• 12 Sick Days
• 12 Holidays
• 5 Personal Days
• Group Health Insurance with Family Coverage
• Life Insurance
• Pension Plan
• Tax Deferred Annuity
• Long-term Disability
• In-service Training
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Flexible Spending Accounts
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