Matt has served as a Member of the Board of Directors of the Saratoga Springs Rotary Education Foundation for ten years, and recently was elected as Board Secretary. The Saratoga Springs Rotary Education Foundation provides annual funding to the Saratoga Springs Rotary Club to make scholarships available for deserving local high school students. Last year, the Foundation provided over $40,000 in scholarship funding.

Matt has also been a Member of the Saratoga Springs Rotary Club for many years, and previously served as a member of its Board of Directors. Through the Rotary Club, Matt has volunteered his time for community projects on behalf of the YMCA, Rebuilding Together of Saratoga County, the Saratoga Springs Senior Center, the Salvation Army, and the Economic Opportunity Council. Based on Matt’s commitment to Rotary and the Saratoga Springs community, the Saratoga Springs Rotary Club previously honored Matt with a Paul Harris Fellowship.

After seeing the effects of Alzheimer’s Disease on his elderly clients and family friends, Matt decided to found the Saratoga Springs Memory Walk in 1997 with his wife Stephanie Ferradino, Esq. Matt acted as Walk Chairman from 1997 to 2001. The Saratoga Springs Memory Walk has been held every year for the past ten years. The inaugural walk had 150 participants and raised $10,000. In 2001, when the Walk was attended by Saratoga Springs Native David Hyde Pierce, it had grown to 1,000 participants with over $200,000 being raised. Since the Walk’s inception in 1997, over one million dollars has been raised to fight Alzheimer’s Disease. In recognition of his efforts, Matt was awarded the 1999 Saratoga Jaycees Outstanding Young Leader Award and the 2000 Volunteer of the Year Award by the Alzheimer’s Association.

Matt graduated from the Saratoga County Chamber of Commerce Leadership Saratoga program in 1998. He was one of the first people recognized by The Saratogian for his community leadership in its feature “Twenty Under Forty”. The Saratogian previously recognized Matt as a leader who will be “making a difference” in the 21^st century because of his “talent, vitality and commitment to community.”