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Jennifer Amaya – International Women’s Day
Jennifer Amaya Director of Outreach and Prevention Visions and Pathways What inspired you to get involved? I’ve had a passion for working with at risk youth since I was younger. I always have and always will enjoy the grass roots interaction that I have with these youth. They are our future and we should all…
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Marla Higginbotham – International Women’s Day
Marla Higginbotham Executive Director Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) of Union County What inspired you to get involved? For the past 20 years, beginning with my senior thesis in college on alternative education choices for black inner- city students and my first job at the National Governor’s Association working with states to implement the National…
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Jersey Cares Selected as Citi Foundation Youth Workforce Fund Grantee to Boost Access to Jobs Among Youth in Newark, NJ
Jersey Cares Selected as Citi Foundation Youth Workforce Fund Grantee to Boost Access to Jobs Among Youth in Newark, NJ $4 million fund to support youth employment organizations across 15 U.S. cities Livingston, NJ (October 24, 2017) – The Citi Foundation recently announced that Jersey Cares has been awarded a grant from the 2017 Youth…
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Staff Spotlight – Meet Jack
Meet Jack, one of the Jersey Cares AmeriCorps VISTA members! Our VISTA members have brought their passion and perseverance to the Jersey Cares team and are now wrapping up their year of changing lives. What is inspired you to become an AmeriCorps VISTA? “My parents instilled in me a strong sense of community and…
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What Hope Looks Like
By: Vanessa Martinez, Service Events Manager, Jersey Cares Bag pipes, names, fathers, daughters, planes. Towers, sons, mothers, pain. If you ask me what I recall during the attacks of 9/11, I’d respond this way. As if recalling a memory, I intend on forgetting, but keep recalling anyway – a nightmare. I grew up in…
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Staff Spotlight-Meet Kathleen!
Meet Kathleen, or Kat, for short. She is one of the newest members of the Corporate Service team at Jersey Cares, but after getting to know her, you wouldn’t think it. When she’s not coordinating volunteer events, Kat enjoys painting (she’s good too—check her out here), trivia, and spending time with her family and her…
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#NationalSelfieDay Summer Challenge
By: Jadea Asante, Ready Corps With the temperatures steadily increasing and the smell of barbeque in the air, it’s safe to say that summer is here. It’s easy for millennials, like myself, to get wrapped up in the same mundane routine. Going to work, looking for work, taking a summer class, and being glued to…
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“A Visit from Super Volunteer”
Adapted from “A Visit From Saint Nicholas” by Clement Clarke Moore ‘Twas two nights before Jersey Cares Day, when all through the state, Not a volunteer was stirring, not quite this late; The supplies were delivered to the sites with great care, In hopes that the volunteers soon would be there; The children were…
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Forty Days of Service – One Volunteer’s Journey
For some people, turning forty can be an impetus for change; for Nyree Anderson Miscia it was a call to action. She has committed to forty days of service leading up to her fortieth birthday and we caught her at the midway point of her journey to ask her a few questions. If you are…
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It’s Alive…
By: Samantha Castagna, Jersey Cares Corporate Service Manager Frankenstein Day, really? Who knew that there was a day celebrating Frankenstein? The author of Frankenstein, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, was born on August 30th, 1797 (which would have made her 219 this year) and so Frankenstein Day was born as well. Mixing elements of both the gothic…
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