Chris Gaffney, Toll Brothers Group President, Elected To Covenant House New York Board Of Directors

Oct. 26, 2010 - PRLog -- Toll Brothers, Inc. , the nation’s leading builder of luxury homes, proudly announces that Chris Gaffney, Group President, was recently elected to the Board of Directors of Covenant House, New York – one of the largest privately funded childcare agencies in the United States. He will also serve on their finance committee. Mr. Gaffney will work with the Board to raise funds to carry out the work of Covenant House, represent the organization to the community at large, and act as an advocate on behalf of all homeless youth.

Founded in 1972, Covenant House provides transitional housing, crisis counseling, and other services in 21 cities throughout the United States, Canada, and Central America. They provide a hearty meal, a warm bed, a safe shelter, and numerous services such as street outreach, health and medical care, high school diploma and vocational training, drug abuse treatment and prevention, mother/child services, and much more.

The organization’s twenty-one chapters are welcoming unparalleled numbers of homeless, throwaway, and runaway children now, many of which have been affected by the current recession and its shattering impact on families nationwide.

“I am thrilled to be able to serve Covenant House and, by extension, the community in this way,” said Mr. Gaffney. “This organization does tremendous work to intervene in the lives of children at critical times when a helping hand can make a huge difference in the path they will take through life,” he added.

Christopher Gaffney joined Toll Brothers in April of 1997.  During his tenure he has managed numerous communities and markets in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and South Carolina.  As Group President, Mr. Gaffney oversees all of Toll Brothers’ suburban home building activities in New Jersey.  He also manages Westminster Security, a wholly owned Toll Brothers subsidiary.  

In addition to serving with Covenant House, Mr. Gaffney participates in other of the Company’s numerous national charitable efforts, which include soliciting donations for Toll Brothers’ annual gala to support the American Cancer Society.

Toll Brothers, Inc. is the nation's leading builder of luxury homes.  The Company began business in 1967 and became a public company in 1986.  Its common stock is listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol "TOL."  The Company serves move-up, empty-nester, active-adult, and second-home buyers and operates nationwide.

Toll Brothers builds luxury single-family detached and attached home communities; master planned luxury residential, resort-style golf communities; and urban low-, mid-, and high-rise communities, principally on land it develops and improves.  The Company operates its own architectural, engineering, mortgage, title, land development and land sale, golf course development and management, home security, and landscape subsidiaries.  The Company also operates its own lumber distribution, and house component assembly and manufacturing operations.

Toll Brothers, a Fortune 1000 company, recently received the #1 ranking in FORTUNE Magazine's 2010 World's Most Admired Companies Survey among home building companies, and is honored to have won the three most coveted awards in the home building industry: America's Best Builder, the National Housing Quality Award, and National Builder of the Year.  Toll Brothers proudly supports the communities in which it builds; among other philanthropic pursuits, the Company sponsors the Toll Brothers – Metropolitan Opera International Radio Network, bringing opera to neighborhoods throughout the world.  For more information, visit http://TollBrothers.com.

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