Willie tries out being a firefighter TODAY’s Willie Geist lives out his childhood dream of joining the New York City Fire Department, completing grueling training exercises that demonstrate the many skills a firefighter needs to save lives. View more here.
FDNY Celebrates 150th Anniversary Stephen Ruzow, chairman of the FDNY Foundation, sits down with Roseanne Colletti to discuss the 150th anniversary of the FDNY and the upcoming annual dinner. View more here.
New Jersey’s Frankie Valli will become an “Honorary Member” of Cento Amici at the organization’s 26th Annual Dinner on Oct. 13 at Alfie’s Ristorante Italiano in Warren. View the gallery here.
New Slate of Officers and Board Members The FDNY Foundation, the official non-profit organization of the New York City Fire Department, announced its new slate of officers and board members at its annual meeting. Three members of the FDNY Foundation’s Executive Committee were elected to officer positions. Read more here.
Cento Amici celebrates scholarship dinner at Alfies Twenty-five scholarship recipients had the good fortune to learn from a Green Beret who later became the CEO of a major Wall Street firm, and a Hall-of-Fame basketball coach, at the annual Cento Amici Scholarship dinner last week, on April 7, in Warren. “Reach up and aspire,” Joe […]
Joe Grano, Coach Bob Hurley To Speak at Cento Amici Spring Dinner Chairman and CEO of Centurion Holdings Joe Grano and Basketball Hall of Fame Coach Bob Hurley will welcome Cento Amici’s 2013-14 scholarship recipients at the organization’s Spring Dinner on Monday, April 7th, at Alfie’s in Warren, NJ. Read more here.
Afghanistan is not an afterthought By Col. Jack Jacobs President Obama’s State of the Union address comes at a crucial moment. With the world in political, diplomatic and economic turmoil, there is plenty that he could say, but there’s one thing on which he should spend some time and effort: Afghanistan. Read more here.
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CENTO AMICI SCHOLARS FUND Cento Amici (100 Friends) is a community-based, member organization dedicated to providing need-based scholarship assistance to qualified students in New Jersey. As a recognized 501(c)(3) (non-profit) organization, Cento Amici currently supports scholarships at the following institutions: Montclair State University, St. Peter’s Prep, UMDNJ, Union County College, and most recently St. Anthony […]
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Congressional Medal of Honor recipient and NBC military analyst Colonel Jack Jacobs and Star-Ledger columnist Mark Di Ionno will welcome Cento Amici’s 2012-13 scholarship recipients at the organization’s Spring Dinner on Monday, April 15th, at Alfie’s in Warren. View the rest on NJ’s Independent Press
There were 58 fire deaths in New York City in 2012, a record low that city officials attributed to faster response times, more intensive firefighter training, and extensive public contacts that included teaching schoolchildren what to do in a fire and distributing smoke detectors: more than 22,000 were handed out in 2012. Continue reading here.
Hall of Fame Coach Bob Hurley of St. Anthony High School was recently inducted as this year’s “Honorary Member” at Cento Amici’s 24th Annual Dinner at Alfie’s Ristorante Italiano in Warren.
This is the story (it will be brief) of a 29-year-old blue collar guy who won’t be participating in the Operation Wall Street protests today. Brian Robinson works his butt off (and the butts of others as he helps run a couple of health clubs). Brian was one of the first recipients of the Cento […]
Cento Amici Inducts Bill Marino as a Honorary Member in its 23rd Annual Dinner WARREN TWP, NJ (October 10, 2011) – Cento Amici will hold its 23rd annual dinner to celebrate and induct its newest honorary member, Bill Marino. The dinner and auction will be held in Alfie’s Ristorante Italiano in Warren, NJ on Monday […]
“Four of the eight current recipients of the 2010-11 Zito Scholarship at Saint Peter’s Prep attended Cento Amici’s spring dinner.”
Raising Funds for New York’s Bravest
Bob Zito, the architect of brand, advertising and communications strategies at Sony Corporation, the New York Stock Exchange, and Bristol-Myers Squibb, has launched a strategic brand consultancy, Zito Partners, with primary offices in New York and New Jersey.