Elliman Gives Back 2025: Food Banks, Animal Shelters and the 13th Annual Ride for Love
by ELLIMAN INSIDER TEAM
October 2025
Last weekend, the Douglas Elliman family came together across the country for Elliman Gives Back, our annual weekend-long commitment to serving the communities where we live and work. From preparing meals and organizing food drives to cleaning up neighborhoods and supporting children and families in need, our agents and staff showed up with heart and purpose.
Here’s a look at some of the incredible efforts that took place:
NEW YORK, NEW JERSEY, LONG ISLAND & THE HAMPTONS
Ride for Love supporting God’s Love We Deliver
This event brought our community together to support God’s Love We Deliver – an organization that prepares and delivers 15,000 nutritious, medically tailored meals to our neighbors across New York City, NJ, Long Island and Westchester. These meals are thoughtfully made for individuals facing serious illness and who are too sick to shop or cook for themselves. Our Ride For Love participants contributed in many ways, including joining a road ride on the Hudson River Greenway, taking a SoulCycle class at Hudson Yards, and donating as non-riders, collectively raising nearly $120,000.
CONNECTICUT
Neighbor to Neighbor volunteer and food donation drive
Elliman’s Greenwich office participated in Neighbor to Neighbor, which aims to improve the lives of residents in need throughout the Greenwich area and strengthen the community by providing access to food, clothing and basic living essentials in an atmosphere of kindness and respect.
MID-ATLANTIC
Food For All DC meal preparation
In DC, our employees participated in a donation drive for Food for All DC, a non-profit organization providing grocery deliveries to low-income, homebound residents throughout the District of Columbia.
WESTCHESTER
Volunteered at SPCA Westchester
Volunteers from the Westchester office helped by gardening, weeding, raking, spreading woodchips on the play yards, and maintaining walking trails to provide vital space for the SPCA Westchester’s adoptable animals. Clearing these spaces allows the animals to exercise and enrich their time as they await their future families.
LOS ANGELES
Project Angel Food volunteer day
Our LA employees served with Project Angel Food, helping nourish the health and spirit of people facing critical and life-threatening illnesses by preparing and delivering medically tailored meals with love, care, and dignity. Project Angel Food has provided more than 19 million meals since 1989 to critically ill individuals across Los Angeles County.
ORANGE COUNTY
South County Outreach community donations
Members of our Orange County office served with South County Outreach, an organization that provides comprehensive help through cash assistance, food support, and housing solutions, ensuring those in need have the resources to stabilize their lives.
NEVADA
Three Square Food Bank volunteer event
Our Nevada volunteers worked with Three Square Food Bank, Nevada’s only food bank and largest hunger relief organization. Three Square offers wholesome, nutritious food to non-profit and faith based organizations, schools and feeding sites that serve a wide range of Southern Nevadans in need.
AUSTIN
Partnerships for Children handling donations of clothing, diapers, and formula
Austin employees volunteered with Partnerships for Children, helping them organize inventory in the Rainbow Room and warehouse, stocking everything from toiletries to clothing to car seats.
DALLAS
Dallas Arboretum assisting guests with hands-on STEM activities
Dallas employees partnered with Dallas Arboretum in The Rory Meyers Children’s Adventure Garden, enhancing the guest experience by assisting guests with the various hands-on, STEM-focused learning activities within their respective galleries.
ASPEN
Brush Creek Cleanup along Snowmass Village roads and streams
Aspen employees volunteered with Brush Creek Cleanup, helping clean along Snowmass Village roads and streams.
HOUSTON
Volunteered at Kids’ Meals
Houston employees volunteered at Kids’ Meals, helping feed hungry children in Houston by preparing and delivering meals to Greater Houston’s hungriest preschool-aged children.
FORT LAUDERDALE
Poverello Food Pantry & Thrift Store volunteer day
Fort Lauderdale employees volunteered at Poverello Food Pantry & Thrift Store, helping them prep and organize medically appropriate grocery items from their specialized menus.
MIAMI
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital Walk/Run in support of the children of St. Jude
In support of the children of St. Jude and their lifesaving mission of finding cures and saving children, Miami volunteers participated in the St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital Walk/Run.
TAMPA/ST. PETERSBURG
Feeding Tampa Bay volunteer outreach
Our Tampa/St. Petersburg volunteers assisted at “The Market,” Feeding Tampa Bay’s community market created to help feed neighbors in need of support. Volunteers helped select and package groceries, assist neighbors to their cars, check in attendees for their appointments, stock shelves, and quality-check food items.
A heartfelt thank you to everyone who took part and made this weekend so meaningful. Together, we continue to make a difference, one community at a time.
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