Port Washington resident Jean-Pierre Lardoux, AIA, NCARB, affectionately known as J.P., and founder and principal architect of Plainview-based Fusion Architecture, PLLC, was recently honored by Adults and Children with Learning and Developmental Disabilities, Inc. (ACLD), at the organization’s 2015 Golf Outing held at the Glen Head Country Club. This year’s outing raised nearly $95,000 to benefit ACLD, a leading Long Island-based nonprofit agency devoted to providing opportunities for children and adults with autism, learning and developmental disabilities to pursue enviable lives, increase independence and foster supportive relationships within the community.
Lardoux has lived in Port Washington since 1998. He and his wife, Rona, have an 8-year-old son, Lucas.
Lardoux led the design efforts for ACLD’s Charles Evans Health Services Center in Bethpage, Magnolia Manor Residential Group Home in Bethpage, the Alan and Ellen Spiegel Children’s Center in Bay Shore and a host of other ACLD projects. He was saluted during the golf outing by Joseph Ortego, president of ACLD’s board of trustees, and by his son as a man who cares deeply about making a difference in the lives of other people.
“J.P.’s attention to detail and quest for the best defines him and Fusion Architecture,” Ortego said. “Those qualities have helped us in the pursuit of our mission, and all that J.P. has done for ACLD makes him a truly worthy honoree.”
More than 160 people took part in ACLD’s 2015 Golf Outing, which raised a total of exactly $94,685 to benefit ACLD. Major sponsors for the event included the Tournament Sponsor ($10,000), Heffernan Insurance Brokers; Eagle Sponsor ($3,500), Fusion Architecture; Scorecard Sponsor ($3,000), the Irwin Siegel Agency; and Special Golf Sponsors ($2,500) Cohn Reznick, Enterprise Fleet Management, Jarro Building Industries, Margolin Winer and Evens, LLP, Michael Borruto General Contractor, Performance Contracting of Long Island, TD Bank and Valley National Bank.
Founded in 1957, ACLD is a nonprofit organization that serves the needs of more than 3,000 individuals with disabilities and provides support for their families. The organization employs more than 1,100 people and operates 77 different program sites including group homes and apartment programs across Nassau and Suffolk counties. Service programs include early childhood services, day habilitation, residential alternatives, vocational training and job placement, recreation programs, respite, family support services, Medicaid service coordination and medical and behavioral health services. For more information, visit www.acld.org.
