Generous Donors Offer to Match Your Donations to SVAC

This week all Scarsdale households will receive a letter from the Scarsdale Volunteer Ambulance Corps (SVAC) asking for your support. If you give this year, your contribution will go much farther because some very generous Scarsdalians have offered to match your gifts.

The appeal is signed by the Bezos family, Kate and Scott Eichel, Joy Henshel, Susi and John Manley, Cheryl and Philip Milstein, David and Roy Raizen, Jill and Robert Serling, Elaine and Alan Weiler and Scarsdale Improvement Corporation who have all stepped up to match your gifts to fund a vital community service.

Why? Because they recognize the value, competence, and necessity of SVAC and know that without the volunteer corps Scarsdale would be forced to hire a commercial emergency service (like those servicing most of our neighboring communities), adding upwards of almost $1,000,000 to what is already a very over-burdened Village budget.

Each year SVAC is forced to absorb additional expenses imposed by state agencies that regulate the service. They recently trained the staff to face a potential ebola threat. There is a limit to the extent that SVAC can offset these expenses while funding on-going operations with their well-trained volunteers. The costs of maintaining their team of paramedics are also increasing. With only 18-20% of Scarsdale households donating to SVAC, it has been difficult to fund this critical service.

With the help of their new matching donors, SVAC hopes to continue to provide this essential service that saves lives every year. Please respond to the appeal from The Scarsdale Volunteer Ambulance Corps in your mailbox.