Robin Hood invested over $146 million in more than 200 programs and schools, directly touching the lives of over 400,000 New Yorkers.
"Millions of our neighbors struggle each day with the challenges of poverty, including unemployment, homelessness and illness," said David Saltzman, Executive Director of Robin Hood.
Starting February 1, 2012, customers can select Robin Hood as the recipient of the 5% bonus when they use their Saks credit card at the Fifth Avenue store. New York's largest private poverty-fighting organization that provides job training and housing programs.
Saks Fifth Avenue will be featuring Robin Hood and four other charities in one of its famous store windows for the month of February.
The board pays all administrative and fundraising costs, so 100% of donations go directly to helping New Yorkers in need. For more than 20 years helping thousands of New Yorkers get the resources and skills they need to get back on their feet.
The organization is the creation of Paul Tudor Jones. He founded and was the Chairman of the Board of the Excellence Charter School, the country's first all-boys charter school, located in the Bedford Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York.
He founded and chaired the Bedford Stuyvesant I Have A Dream Foundation, which puts local students in colleges.
In the 1987, PBS film “TRADER: The Documentary”. The film shows Mr. Jones as a young man predicting the 1987 crash, using methods similar to market forecaster Robert Prechter.
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