Since 1981, Fitzsimmons has been a devoted volunteer for the Seamen’s Society for Children and Families, which finds foster homes for at least 300 New York City youths every year and supports them through educational programs. Fitzsimmons chairs the organization’s annual calendar fund-raiser, which has raised almost $500,000, and has secured hundreds of thousands of dollars in private funding. Every year at Christmastime, he spends $5,000 of his own money to send up to 250 foster families to Staten Island’s annual Christmas show at the St. George Theatre.
