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Jersey Cares Day
Jersey Cares Day is a day of
true partnership and community building as people from all
walks of life unite for the common goal of revitalizing and
beautifying Newark’s communities. For the past ten years,
thousands of volunteers have traveled to schools, parks and
nonprofit organizations throughout the city of Newark to
bring much needed help in projects like painting murals on
classroom walls, planting gardens outside school entrances,
organizing classroom libraries, landscaping and removing
trash in community parks, painting lines for outdoor games
on blank school parking lots, and so much more!
While Jersey
Cares Day is a fun and rewarding way to help our neighbors
in need, it's also a fundraiser to support all of the
important work Jersey Cares does throughout the year. Like a
walk-a-thon, Jersey Cares Day volunteers raise pledges for
the time they are contributing, making the event an
inspiring way to give back to the community and help that
work continue all year round! If you'd like additional
information about Jersey Cares Day, please contact
jerseycaresday@jerseycares.org.
The Jersey Cares Annual Coat Drive
Every fall, The Jersey Cares Coat Drive collects
and distributes over 20,000 “gently used” winter
coats to at-risk men, women, children and
infants. Over the past ten years, Jersey
Cares has collected, sorted and distributed
thousands of winter coats to New Jersey
residents in need through this program.
Companies, churches, police stations,
schools and other organizations collect
coats throughout the drive. Coats are then
delivered by a collection site
representative to our Coat Drive Warehouse,
which is located at the Community FoodBank
of NJ in Hillside. Volunteers then sort the
donated coats at the Community FoodBank of
NJ and bag them for pick-up. Agency
recipients schedule their pick-up and
distribute the coats to those in need. If
you'd like more information on the Coat Drive, please
contact
coatdrive@jerseycares.org.
Frosty's
Friends
Every November,
Jersey Cares connects volunteers with children in need
during the holiday
season. Children write letters to Santa and Jersey Cares
distributes letters to our volunteers to fulfill those
wishes.
If you'd like
additional information about Frosty's Friends, please
contact
sfazio@jerseycares.org.
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