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Bassett Furniture to Donate Nearly $10,000 Worth of Furniture to North Shore Child & Family Guidance Center in Roslyn Heights
What: Bassett Furniture will have the privilege of unloading a delivery truck filled with nearly $10,000 worth of donated furniture at the North Shore Child & Family Guidance Center, a not-for-profit children’s mental health agency dedicated to restoring and strengthening the emotional well-being of children and their families.
Bassett Furniture will be sprucing up the waiting room of the Guidance Center to provide a comfortable and welcoming area for the families who visit the Center. Bassett Furniture selected the North Shore Child & Family Guidance Center for this donation because of the positive impact the organization has on the local community. The Guidance Center provides various mental health and substance abuse counseling services, as well as advocacy and care coordination services, to help improve the lives of the children and families it serves.
Who: North Shore Child & Family Guidance Center staff and board members; Bassett Furniture employees and executives
When: Thursday, March 9, 2017. Delivery is scheduled for 12:00 p.m. with interviews and unloading photo/video opportunities to follow.
Where: 480 Old Westbury Road, Roslyn Heights, NY 11577
Why: This is Bassett’s eighteenth such donation and delivery since October 2013 and is part of the company’s Make(over) a Difference initiative that creates fresh living spaces for organizations that serve the communities in which Bassett operates. The local Bassett Furniture store located at 950 Old Country Road, Garden City, NY 11530 is celebrating the grand opening of its new store. Store hours are 10:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. Monday – Saturday, and 12:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. on Sunday.
For more than 60 years, North Shore Child & Family Guidance Center has been a place of hope and healing, providing innovative and compassionate treatment to all who enter its doors, regardless of their ability to pay. The Guidance Center’s staff includes professional child specialists in psychiatry, psychology, psychiatric social work, mental health counseling, alcohol and drug counseling and vocational rehabilitation, as well as a unique team of family advocates.
About Bassett Furniture: Bassett Furniture Industries, Inc. (Nasdaq:BSET) is a leading manufacturer and marketer of high quality, mid-priced home furnishings. For more than a century, the name Bassett has defined quality without compromise, and today stands as one of America’s most iconic furniture brands. It all began in the late 1800s in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains northwest of Martinsville, Virginia. Today, Bassett remains committed to the early principles of the company: that high quality, stylish furniture should be available to everyone at an affordable price. With 90 company and licensee-owned stores, Bassett has leveraged its strong brand name in furniture into a network of corporate and licensed stores that focus on providing consumers with a friendly environment for buying furniture and accessories. For more information, visit www.bassettfurniture.com.
