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The Gaton Foundation delivers fresh groceries to students and families in need.
After a massive fire tore through various homes on Jamaica Avenue in Richmond Hill during 2020, Gaton-Wiltshire promptly started The Gaton Foundation and the Give & Go Delivery Project with her daughter, Kristen Wiltshire.
Members of The Gaton Foundation along with its volunteers from Richmond Hill High School and beyond execute these deliveries in the neighborhoods of Richmond Hill, Woodhaven, Whitestone, Jamaica, Ozone Park, Glendale and communities in Brooklyn where students have been displaced.
“Children are our greatest opportunity to make an impact. They’re curious, imaginative, and have all the components of real change makers, so we started there, providing Give&Go Grocery Project to schools. If we can sufficiently nourish people with nutritious foods, education, and opportunities, they can be tremendous forces for good in every connection they make.”
Amir Sobhraj and Tony Subraj, who are both co-managing partners at Zara Realty Holding Corp, were both honorees at the event. They said that the Zara Charitable Foundation would be donating all of the proceeds of the raffle to the Gaton Foundation, a non-profit group that aims to fight food poverty in Richmond Hill, Queens, after hearing that food security is a major problem in the neighborhood. The Gaton Foundation will then use the funds to distribute food to those in need.
Meanwhile, Subraj said that the Zara Charitable Foundation is also making a donation the Gaton Foundation which will increase the group’s current food distribution numbers seven-fold over the next 12 months.
Kristen , thanks for taking the time to share your stories with us today Coming up with the idea is so exciting, but then comes the hard part – executing. Too often the media ignores the execution part and goes from idea to success, skipping over the nitty, gritty details of executing in the early days. We think that’s a disservice both to the entrepreneurs who built something amazing as well as the public who isn’t getting a realistic picture of what it takes to succeed. So, we’d really appreciate if you could open up about your execution story – how did you go from idea to execution?