Happy Holidays Message

As the Holiday Season is upon us, there is much to be thankful for. We are grateful for our working relationships and friendships with each and every employee and business partner who has continued to shape our company.

Our holiday wishes to you, your families, and your business for a happier, healthier, more peaceful, and prosperous New Year in 2023!

We look forward to working with you in the years to come.

All of us at O’Connell strongly feel that we have been very blessed and are fortunate for the relationships we have with our vendors, customers, and communities we live and work in. This holiday season we are sharing this good fortune in your honor by making charitable donations to local organizations in the communities where each of our offices are located.

Asbury First Community Outreach Center

The Asbury First United Methodist Church’s mission is to bring life to the Rochester community. They are currently growing their Community Outreach Center to reach directly out to those in need. The Center provides hot meals, medical care, personal hygiene, hair care, laundry assistance, help with job searches, computer access, and a storehouse full of clothes and home goods. C.U.R.E. Childhood Cancer Association

C.U.R.E. Childhood Cancer Association exists to provide emotional, educational, social, and financial assistance to Rochester-area families whose children have cancer or a blood disorder. Underlying every facet of their mission is one simple goal: to improve the lives of pediatric cancer patients and their loved ones. Lifespan

Lifespan helps older adults and caregivers take on the challenges and opportunities of longer life. As a regional nonprofit, Lifespan is a trusted source of unbiased information, guidance and more than 30 services and advocacy for older adults and caregivers. They also provide training and education for allied professionals and the community. Annually they assist thousands of older adults and caregivers. The Salvation Army

Dedicated to doing the most good in our communities, the Salvation Army is an organization that seeks to meet human needs without discrimination. In the greater Rochester Area, this includes emergency and family services, hunger relief, youth empowerment, housing support, combating addiction, combating human trafficking, emergency disaster services and sharing God’s Love. Mental Health Advocates of WNY

For 60 years, Mental Health Advocates of WNY has been deeply committed to providing essential non-clinical services that address the needs of individuals, families and communities living with mental illness. Through awareness, education, prevention, early intervention programs and supportive services, the organization advocates for and actively promotes mental health and wellness for adults, families and children in homes, schools and workplaces across Western New York. WNY Heroes, Inc.

The mission of WNY Heroes is to provide veterans, members of the armed services, and the widows and children of deceased veterans with access to essential services, financial assistance and resources that support their lives and sustain their dignity. Wings Flights of Hope, Inc.

Wings Flights of Hope helps people in need of free air transportation for medical and humanitarian purposes. Basically helping anyone, anytime, anyplace. The organization does not let transportation to stand in the way of a patient receiving the best possible treatment available. With this purpose in mind, volunteer pilots enjoy giving the gift of hope to so many passengers. Wings Flights of Hope is extremely instrumental for transplant patients because of the short window of opportunity to receive organ transplants.

Hospice of Central New York

Hospice of CNY is a dedicated network of doctors, nurses, social workers, grief counselors, chaplains and family caregivers working together to provide comprehensive comfort care to patients and families facing end-of-life and life-limiting illness.

Food Bank of Central New York serves as the main food distribution hub for hundreds of partner agencies that comprise the emergency food network in an 11-county service region across central and northern New York. The food bank provides more than 22.5 million pounds of food – the equivalent of 18.7 million meals – to hungry families, children, and elderly every year.

Food Bank of Central New York

McMahon Ryan Child Advocacy Center

The McMahon Ryan Center is dedicated to ending child abuse in their community through prevention, intervention, and education by facilitating a coordinated multidisciplinary team approach, meeting the needs of children and families. Their streamlined approach partners law enforcement, children and family services, social workers, medical professionals, victim advocates, prosecutors, therapists and volunteers under one roof – and preserves the best evidence for investigators in cases of child abuse or human trafficking. City Mission of Schenectady

The purpose of City Mission of Schenectady is to establish and maintain programs and ministries that address the physical, social, and spiritual needs of the poor as well as those who are underresourced. Habitat for Humanity of Schenectady County, Inc.

Schenectady Habitat is dedicated to eliminating substandard housing locally and worldwide through constructing, rehabilitating and preserving homes by advocating for fair and just housing policies and by providing training and access to resources to help families improve their shelter conditions. The organization was founded on the conviction that every man, woman and child should have a simple, durable place to live in dignity and safety. Things of My Very Own, Inc.

Things of My Very Own is a non-profit organization that provides crisis intervention services to children who are impacted by extensive abuse and/or neglect or at-risk of a Child Protective Services intervention. Their goal is to keep children together with non-abusive family members and out of the foster care system whenever possible. They recognize the need for children to have basic necessities and things of their very own as soon as possible, so they can begin their healing process.