NEWARK, NJ — Recently, Imagine, A Center for Coping with Loss staff members Sonia Nunez, Newark program manager, and Ashley S. Allen, Newark training and education manager, trained a new team of facilitators to join Imagine’s rapidly growing Newark Night of Support. Many of the new facilitators will be facilitating Imagine’s groups that meet at […]
FAIR LAWN, NJ — Columbia Bank Foundation, Boys & Girls Clubs in New Jersey, and Blankets of Hope, have once again teamed up to make a difference in the lives of the homeless and other New Jerseyans in need, by wrapping the less fortunate in the comfort of warm blankets. In total, 1,536 Blankets of […]
EAST ORANGE, NJ — East Orange resident Jihadah Sharif is on a mission to stop people from smoking. At 78 years old, she has lost several family members to smoking-related illnesses: her father and four of her six siblings all died from side effects caused by long-term smoking. Sharif herself was a smoker for a […]
NEW JERSEY — Bank of America recently announced more than $4.2 million in grants to 75 New Jersey nonprofit organizations that will help drive economic opportunity and upward mobility for communities. The local nonprofits will focus on basic needs, affordable housing, workforce development, and small business and economic revitalization. “As part of our commitment to […]
NEWARK, NJ — Columbia Bank Foundation, Boys & Girls Clubs in New Jersey and Blankets of Hope have joined forces to make a difference in the lives of the homeless in New Jersey, by wrapping the less fortunate in the comfort of warm blankets. Together, the organizations have delivered 1,440 “Blankets of Hope” to community […]