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Bernie & Phyl’s Furniture recently helped furnish the new Braintree Community Youth Center. The center, which opened to provide a safe, supervised space for teens to hang out, was in desperate need of comfortable sofas and other items for their new program and asked Bernie & Phyl’s for donations twice in a one month period. Bernie & Phyl’s came through with a donation of numerous sofas and a table to meet both requests.
“We are happy to have helped make the new Braintree Community Youth Center an inviting, comfortable, and safe place for the kids who use it,” said Bernie Rubin, co-founder and chairman of Bernie & Phyl’s Furniture. “We support the important work these youth centers do and are happy that we can do our part to make a difference.”
The center was thrilled with the donations and its director Jim Tennant wrote to say, “We received the furniture that you arranged to send for the Braintree Community Youth Center. Wow! I spent last night like a little kid at Christmas setting them up, re-arranging, and putting together the plan of how they’ll be utilized.”
Bernie & Phyl’s Furniture, which is owned by the Rubin family, is the largest privately held furniture retailer in Massachusetts. In 2007, Bernie & Phyl’s Furniture received the prestigious Better Business Bureau Local Torch Award for Excellence, which is given to companies that embody the highest ethical standards. It was the second time that Bernie & Phyl’s had received the Torch Award. In 2002, the company was named “Retailer of the Year” by the National Home Furnishings Association, which is the highest honor in the retail home furnishings industry. Based in Norton, MA, Bernie & Phyl’s Furniture has five stores in New England: Braintree, MA; Nashua, NH; Raynham, MA; Saugus, MA; and Westboro, MA.
February 5th, 2008
Westborough, MA, January 16, 2008 – Bernie & Phyl’s Furniture recently donated two sofas and a bookcase to the Boroughs Family Branch YMCA Youth & Teen Center in Westborough. The teen center was being renovated and lacked sufficient seating for the hundreds of teens who use it during afternoons and evenings, as well as a place to store its growing library of donated books.
The donation request was initiated by Chris Dragoon, a Westborough High School senior and intern at the YMCA who was involved in the renovation. Dragoon was working at the YMCA as part of the high school’s Quest Program, which gives seniors the chance to use the last month of their high school experience to give back to the community through service projects.
“We are happy to have helped make the Boroughs Family Branch Youth & Teen Center an inviting, comfortable, and safe place for the kids who use it,” said Bernie Rubin, co-founder and chairman of Bernie & Phyl’s Furniture. “We support the important work these youth centers do and are happy that we can do our part to make a difference.”
Bernie & Phyl’s Furniture, which is owned by the Rubin family, is the largest privately held furniture retailer in Massachusetts. In 2007, Bernie & Phyl’s Furniture received the prestigious Better Business Bureau Local Torch Award for Excellence, which is given to companies that embody the highest ethical standards. It was the second time that Bernie & Phyl’s had received the Torch Award. In 2002, the company was named “Retailer of the Year” by the National Home Furnishings Association, which is the highest honor in the retail home furnishings industry. Based in Norton, MA, Bernie & Phyl’s Furniture has five stores in New England: Braintree, MA; Nashua, NH; Raynham, MA; Saugus, MA; and Westboro, MA.
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January 16th, 2008
Boston, MA, January 16, 2008 – Bernie & Phyl’s Furniture recently donated three sofas to the Wang YMCA in Chinatown as part of the Wang’s Reach Out to Youth Campaign. The sofas will help furnish the area where the YMCA holds it after school activities and tutoring programs. Many kids come to the Wang YMCA because they have no place else to go to do their homework, find enrichment activities, and to be safe after school.
“We are happy to have helped make the Wang YMCA youth area an inviting, comfortable, and safe place for the kids who use it,” said Bernie Rubin, co-founder and chairman of Bernie & Phyl’s Furniture. “We support the important work these youth centers do and are happy that we can do our part to make a difference.”
Bernie & Phyl’s Furniture, which is owned by the Rubin family, is the largest privately held furniture retailer in Massachusetts. In 2007, Bernie & Phyl’s Furniture received the prestigious Better Business Bureau Local Torch Award for Excellence, which is given to companies that embody the highest ethical standards. It was the second time that Bernie & Phyl’s had received the Torch Award. In 2002, the company was named “Retailer of the Year” by the National Home Furnishings Association, which is the highest honor in the retail home furnishings industry. Based in Norton, MA, Bernie & Phyl’s Furniture has five stores in New England: Braintree, MA; Nashua, NH; Raynham, MA; Saugus, MA; and Westboro, MA.
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January 16th, 2008
Nashua, NH, December 10, 2007 – Bernie & Phyl’s Furniture is sponsoring a Holiday Food Drive from now until December 30 to benefit The Nashua Soup Kitchen. People can donate packaged food and personal care items, which will be given to families in need.
The Bernie & Phyl’s Nashua store at 240 Daniel Webster Highway will have a box where contributions can be made. Some of the needed items include: gravy, boxed or bagged stuffing, hot and cold cereal, canned spaghetti sauce, pasta, peanut butter, toilet paper, shaving razors, and toothbrushes.
“Approximately 50 individuals and families receive non-perishable food each week from the Nashua Soup Kitchen. Many of these people are the working poor, elderly, and disabled, living on a fixed income. With the help of our friends in the community, we can help make sure that these people have enough to eat this holiday season and beyond,” said Bernie Rubin, co-founder of Bernie & Phyl’s Furniture.
Based in Norton, MA, Bernie & Phyl’s Furniture is the largest privately-owned furniture retailer in Massachusetts. The family run business has five stores in New England: Braintree, MA; Nashua, NH; Raynham, MA; Saugus, MA; and Westboro, MA. Bernie & Phyl’s Furniture received the prestigious Better Business Bureau Local Torch Award for Excellence, in 2007 and 2004, which is given to companies that embody the highest ethical standards. In 2002, the company was named “Retailer of the Year” by the National Home Furnishings Association, which is the highest honor in the retail home furnishings industry.
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December 10th, 2007
Norton, MA, December 6, 2007 – Bernie & Phyl’s Furniture is sponsoring a Holiday Food Drive from now until December 30 to benefit the Greater Boston Food Bank. People can donate packaged food items, which will be given to families in need throughout Massachusetts.
Each Bernie & Phyl’s store will have a box where food contributions can be made. Some of the needed food items include: canned or dry fruits and vegetables including spaghetti sauce; all types of pasta; oatmeal; low sugar/high fiber cold cereal; whole grain rice; canned fish and chicken; dried and canned beans and peas; canned chili or beef stew, peanut butter and nuts; and dry, evaporated, and shelf-stable milk.
“More than 109,000 children are at risk of going hungry on any given day in eastern Massachusetts. With the help of our friends in the community, we can help make sure that every family has enough to eat this holiday season and beyond,” said Bernie Rubin, co-founder of Bernie & Phyl’s Furniture.
The Greater Boston Food Bank serves 321,500 people in eastern Massachusetts, in cities, suburbs, and rural regions. The Food Bank serves 190 communities extending from Lowell and Lawrence in the northeastern part of the state, through the Greater Boston area, down to Cape Cod, Fall River, New Bedford, and the southeastern part of the state.
Based in Norton, MA, Bernie & Phyl’s Furniture is the largest privately-owned furniture retailer in Massachusetts. The family run business has five stores in New England: Braintree, MA; Nashua, NH; Raynham, MA; Saugus, MA; and Westboro, MA. Bernie & Phyl’s Furniture received the prestigious Better Business Bureau Local Torch Award for Excellence, in 2007 and 2004, which is given to companies that embody the highest ethical standards. In 2002, the company was named “Retailer of the Year” by the National Home Furnishings Association, which is the highest honor in the retail home furnishings industry.
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December 6th, 2007
Norton, MA, September 12, 2007 – Bernie and Phyllis Rubin and staff from Bernie & Phyl’s Furniture practice “Sleeping In” in preparation for the “Sleep In for the Cure,” which will be held on September 23, 2007. Bernie & Phyl’s is sponsoring the “Sleep In” with the Susan G. Komen Foundation Massachusetts Affiliate to raise funds to fight breast cancer. “Sleep In” participants raise money through pledges just like the “Komen Race for the Cure” participants, which will be held on the same day. But instead of suiting up for the 5K “Race” on Sunday morning, “Sleep In” participants get to stay at home in bed. Registration materials are available at all Bernie & Phyl’s stores as well as online at the http://www.komenmassrace.org/.
September 17th, 2007
Bernie and Phyl’s Furniture is the largest privately owned furniture retailer in Massachusetts. The company has grown from a small storefront into one of the fastest growing furniture companies in the country, with six stores in Massachusetts and one in New Hampshire. Bernie & Phyl believe in giving back to those who are less fortunate. They have donated thousands of dollars worth of children’s furniture for the youth at one of our group homes. Annually they sponsor a day of fun-filled activities at Fenway Park for many of The Home’s children. Bernie & Phyl’s corporate philanthropy demonstrates corporate responsibility at its best. Their investment of time and resources plays a vital role in making hope and opportunity possible for children who are in need.
Excerpt from The Home For Little Wanderers
July 23rd, 2007
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March 1st, 2006
Jay McIntosh, Furniture Today | October 21, 2005
Norton, Mass.— Retailer Bernie & Phyl’s Furniture has donated new waiting room furniture to the Children’s Advocacy Center in Suffolk County, Massachusetts.The CAC is a public-private partnership dedicated to minimizing trauma to children and families when concerns of abuse and violence arise. The organization recently moved into a larger space at the Boston Family Justice Center. Read More
October 21st, 2005
By Staff, Furniture Today | April 24, 2004
NORTON, Mass.— Bernie & Phyl’s Furniture was one of 10 retailers internationally to win the Executive Technology Retail Community Service Award, given by Executive Technology Magazine.
Bernie Rubin, co-founder and president, and Larry Rubin, chief operating officer, accepted the award on behalf of the company during a gala at the National Retail Federation conference in New York.
Bernie & Phyl’s Furniture was selected because of its ongoing and strong commitment to donating furniture to organizations in need. Read More
April 24th, 2004
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