Focused Wealth Management to Receive ‘Visionary Leader Award’ From the National Kidney Foundation

NEWBURGH, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Focused Wealth Management, an investment management firm serving clients in the individual, corporate, retirement plan, endowment and foundation marketplaces, under the direction of firm owner and Managing Director Philip J. DeAngelo, has been notified that it will receive the Visionary Leader Award from the National Kidney Foundation at its awards ceremony in New York City in March.

The award recognizes people or groups who have demonstrated exceptional leadership and vision in the field of kidney disease.

Saskia M. Thomson, executive director of the National Kidney Foundation, said, “We are extremely grateful to Philip DeAngelo and Focused Wealth Management for their tireless efforts to save lives in helping eliminate preventable kidney disease and for their innovative vision of improving kidney care, dialysis and transplantation. Philip DeAngelo has been a true champion for us.”

DeAngelo said, “I am humbled by this award to our firm and we are just one of the thousands of individuals and organizations committed to doing everything possible to aid in the prevention and treatment of kidney disease. The work of the National Kidney Foundation is vital to our nation’s health and well-being.”

Helping communities and people is a core value of Focused Wealth Management and its team. Over the past 12 years, Focused Wealth Management, Philip DeAngelo and his wife, Tina DeAngelo, have collectively given more than $1.5 million to charity.

“Making these donations to incredibly worthy causes has been the honor of a lifetime for me,” said Philip DeAngelo. “The individuals in these local charitable organizations and the work they are doing to improve their communities is awe-inspiring.”

Among the donations from Focused Wealth Management in the past two years are: Cerebral Palsy Associations of New York State; Wraparound Services of the Hudson Valley; Jawonio; Mount Saint Mary College; Crystal Run Village; The Arc – Rockland; Hudson Valley Cerebral Palsy; Liberty ARC; National Kidney Foundation; The Arc Greater Hudson Valley; Achieve; Human Services Council; Andrus; COFCCA; Greystone Programs, and; Special Citizens.