NYPD With Arms Wide Open

This Sunday, Joyce’s Tavern is doing it again!!! Supporting America and Great Orginizations!!! They have graciously pick us at “With Arms Wide Open” for this weeks charity. Joyce’s Tavern 3823 Richmond Ave. Staten Island, NY 10312. They will be continuing this Boycott of the NFL fundraising campaign till the NFL respects The Flag, National Anthem and The American People. Stop on by and have some laughs with new and old friends and support a great cause at the same time at a NFL Free Zone and Show some Amazing American Spirit. Proceeds from the 50/50 will be donated to the victims of the horrible event that unfolded in Vegas this past Sunday night.

With the help of the “With Arms Wide Open Family and Friends” we were able to help out our fellow Americans in Florida after hurricane Irma with your donated supplies and monies. We caravanned down to Jacksonville and Clay County areas to dropped off donated supplies and loaded up some vehicles heading further down to Dade County area.

In the Black Creek area, we were able to hook up with our Law Enforcement brothers and sisters and some families with special needs children to help with a little clean up and try to bring back some little  bit of normalcy. With theContinue Reading

The Children of “With Arms Wide Open” would like to thank everyone who attended and participated in our 1st Annual Dinner Dance at Antun’s of Queens Village. We are overwhelmed by the support shown to us over the past 3 ½ but especially from the 420+ guests who attended the Dinner Dance.

Your dedication to “With Arms Wide Open” will ensure that our children are not doing without and are prospering in all that they do. That they are writing their stories and not following the out dated prognosis given to many parents on what not to expect. Thanks to all of you “WAWO” has been able to offset Members of Service with a child or children with special needs, their medical costs, prescription drug cost, therapy session not covered under insurance, the purchasing wheel chairs, special running chairs, adult strollers and contributing to research funding for causes directly related to our children. To date we have been able to give out over $90,000 to above said causes and much more.  With you help and support we hope the more officers will let their protective guard down and if needed ask for help! 

We would like to Thank our 2017 Humanitarian Award Winners 1^st Grade Detective Kevin Schroeder and Steven Van Zandt for the incredible work they have done over the past 2 ½ years raising more than $200,000 for WAWO

We would like to also Thank Chief Jeffrey Maddrey of Patrol Borough Brooklyn North and his Entire Staff along with Lambros Lambrou of the Police Reserve Association of the City of New York and his Team, Evan and Amir from Ideko Productions and the many more volunteers that helped put together PBBN 5K and helped raise over $24,000 for WAWO

To Patti and Conor McDonald for allowing us, the honor of using her husband’s and his father’s name, and create The Detective Steven McDonald Scholarship Award.

We would like to congratulate our 4 winners this year and thank all of the applicants for their wonderful essay’s and allowing us a glimpse into their lives.

Our mission is and always will be to help our fellow MOS. Who may find themselves worrying not only while they are at work but also while at home, with dealing with a child with special needs. The formidable task of helping our children reach their abilities to the fullest, and shatter the ceiling with the stigmas set by some of society on their place in life.  Their stories are only just beginning and with the help of supporters like you they will write their stories setting the goals for future generations!!!!!! Please click Read More to view any of the photos above and more from the 1st Annual Dinner Dance.Continue Reading

Great day 4-1-17 at the 9-11 Towers of Freedom Memorial where With Arms Wide Open teamed up with The Towers of Freedom Memorial Foundation,  The Brian Moore Foundation and Ainsley’s Angels and worked together to purchase these beautiful Running Chairs for Kevin and Sean sons of Kevin Carroll Retired MOS who are suffering from Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy. The Carroll Family also donated a Special Needs Bike to Ryan Haskell.
Among those in attendance was Patti McDonald, Ray Moore, Peter King and Joseph Saladino. Also honored were Retired Corrections Officer Michael Bannahan and NYPD P.O. Peter Mehan.
A Special Thanks to Tom Smith, Frank Haskell, Kenny Haskell and all the volunteers who worked so hard to make this day possible.