Community Environmental Center receives donation from the TD Charitable Foundation

Monday, May 3rd, 2010

Richard M. Cherry, founder and president of CEC, is flanked by Richard K. Dzwlewkz, regional vice president of TD Bank, and Stephen Ring, manager, TD Bank's Queens Village store.

Long Island City, NY (May 3, 2010)—Community Environmental Center (CEC), the non-profit Queens organization dedicated to weatherizing low-income homes and multifamily dwellings in Queens and Brooklyn, has received a $5,000 grant from the TD Charitable Foundation, the charitable giving arm of TD Bank.

On Saturday, April 24, Richard M. Cherry, CEC’s founder and president, accepted the check from the TD Charitable Foundation at the grand opening celebration of TD Bank’s first green prototype store, which is located at 214-32 Jamaica Avenue in Queens Village. The new store, the first of its kind in the TD Bank footprint, is targeting a LEED-Platinum rating.

“TD Bank is a great asset to the Queens neighborhood,” said Cherry at Saturday’s ribbon-cutting festivity, which took place at noon in front of the new building. “And CEC welcomes TD Bank’s new store to the community of green buildings. Only by constructing energy efficient buildings such as this one will we lessen the effects of the climate crisis.”

CEC will use the grant to perform home energy audits in the Queens Village area. An energy audit is the first step toward making one’s home or apartment more efficient. It assesses how much energy a home uses and evaluates what measures one can take to improve energy efficiency.

TD Bank’s 3,800 square-foot prototype store on Jamaica Avenue will reduce energy consumption by 50 percent compared to previous designs, with nearly 20 percent of the store’s energy being produced onsite through solar panels and solar drive-thru canopies.

Founded in 1994, Community Environmental Center is New York State’s largest supplier of weatherization services under the State’s Weatherization Assistance Program (WAP), and an approved provider of the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority’s energy efficiency programs. Working with NYSERDA, CEC helps home and building owners secure government funds to offset the cost of weatherization.

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