News + Stories

April showers bring…National Volunteer Month! All month long, we’ll be sharing stories from our incredible community of volunteers. Today, we’re chatting with Shira Feen, a volunteer for DOROT’s Response Team and Package Delivery programs. How did you get involved with DOROT? The first time I volunteered was through a partnership event I set up for […]

DOROT’s Lasting Impressions programs educate and entertain hundreds of participants each week via Zoom. In one recent week, programs featured two indisputable creative geniuses of the late 19th and 20th centuries, the Italian musician/conductor Arturo Toscanini and the Russian-Jewish artist Marc Chagall. There were more than 400 participants for the two programs and in addition […]

Friendship – real friendship – is a two-way street. It is an essential, everyday truth at DOROT and in our work. It becomes a thing of beauty in an intergenerational relationship like Betsie and Rachael’s. What began with DOROT Westchester matching these very different women for Caring Calls outreach when the lockdown began, has blossomed […]

Read the full print version of the Spring 2022 Connections Newsletter below: READ THE FULL CONNECTIONS NEWSLETTER FOR SPRING 2022    

Judith D. Fryer, Rabbi Mira Rivera and Marcie Imberman are the newest members of the DOROT Board of Directors. They joined the Board in early 2022. A business lawyer in New York City for more than 40 years, Judith Fryer recently retired as a Principal Shareholder at the law firm of Greenberg Traurig, LLP. She […]

For more than 35 years, the everyday acts of kindness and compassion from DOROT staff members Gretchen Quinn, Elazar Stepansky, Rochelle Banks and Amelia Kramer, with their ability to navigate the world of transitional housing in New York City, gave home and hope to older adults in need at DOROT’s Homelessness Prevention Program (HPP). While […]

Did you know that March is National Social Work Month? At DOROT, social work is at the heart of every program and service we offer to keep older adults socially connected and bring the generations together. As we move into a third year of pandemic life, we reached out to a few dedicated DOROT social […]

To understand the magic of Generations Helping Generations,  look no further than Marilyn Warner and Nathaniel Tanenbaum. Marilyn and Nathaniel met this summer in DOROT’s Summer Teen Internship Program (STIP). A young-at-heart 70+ Upper West Sider, Marilyn came to DOROT looking for connection during the pandemic. Nathaniel, an 18-year-old high school senior from Brooklyn, joined […]

Over the past two years, DOROT’s Caring Calls program has matched over 1,400 volunteers and older adults across 42 different states for weekly phone conversations leading to meaningful friendships. As a testament to the success of this program, DOROT has now partnered with the New York State Office for the Aging (NYSOFA), NYSDOH – New York State […]

Join DOROT’s Connect Through Tech for our upcoming virtual panel: “Stay Smart & Secure: Managing Your Online Use.” Learn how to protect yourself and your information while enjoying the benefits of being online. Hear from a panel of experts, learn from real-time demonstrations, and participate in an interactive Q&A. Each session will cover different topics. […]