This spring HAI was the recipient of two generous donations. The City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene was contacted by a major book publisher who wanted to donate a thousand current paperbacks but had no idea where to begin. The right person received that call because she immediately thought of HAI. Thirty huge boxes filled with books arrived at HAI’s loft office on a Friday afternoon. By the following week they had been repackaged and were brought, on a daily basis, to nursing homes, mental health programs and temporary housing facilities. "Many of the recipients in our program have discussed having a book club, underscoring the need and desire for such resources,” said New York Psychotherapy and Counseling Center Program Administrator Monica Rosado.

One month after the book donation, a pharmaceutical company, deaccessioning some of their corporate art, delivered fifteen paintings to HAI’s office. These, too, have found homes in a few facilities where they are enlivening and bringing pleasure to residents. “It is greatly appreciated. I am sure it will contribute to lifting the mood of many senior citizens with profound disabilities who pass through our hallways,” said Merry Nachemin of Brooklyn Psychiatric Centers, Inc. These instances of genuine thoughtfulness follow other in-kind donations that have come HAI’s way for redistribution, including tapes, CDs, flower arrangements, and sculptures.