On February 4th United Way's Women United held a Legislative Breakfast at the Pines Manor in Edison. The panel addressed topics ranging from civic engagement toquality preschool and child care to the importace of including underserved communities in Census 2020, especially infants and children.
Moderated by The Honorable James...
Thank you to L'T Apparel for helping the 3rd grade classes at JFK Elementary School celebrate fall with a fun art project.
The activty, which was organized and supplied by the company, allowed each child to decorate a Halloween t-shirt. They took the completed shirts home in a colorful "goodie bag" that included a book and...
Thanks to our volunteers from L'T Apparel the preschool classes at John F. Kennedy Elementary School were able to go pumpkin picking - without leaving school! The 3 and 4 year-olds were treated to a "pumpkin patch" set up in the school gym. Once they had "picked" their pumpkins they returned to their classrooms where the volunteers...
What's more fall than acorns? For our Preschool STEM activity in October 2019 we counted acorns, sorted by colors, laid them out in a bar graph and figured out which color was "greater than" and which color was "less than".
Members of our Women United helped to sort over 2,000 children's books by reading level and condition. The books will be distributed through our summer reading program in Jamesburg. thank you to everyone who gave up part of their morning to volunteer!
To celebrate our national Day of Service and ensure that we keep the shelves stocked at our county food pantry during the summer months United Way of Central Jersey held our annual "Count the Cans" food drop off on June 19th. Bahama Breeze in Woodbridge Center hosted the event and provided a free small plate appetizer to anyone who...
Employees from Banana Republic stores in Central Jersey created literacy kits for distribution to area Head Starts.
Photo 1 - Banana Republic employees Gabrielle Guzman, Julia Baer and Hernan Hernandez
Photo 2 - Head...
Many children who are eligible for free or reduced price lunch do not have enough food at home to eat over the weekend. To help address this, AT&T's Xandr Group worked with United Way to assemble weekend food kits for food insecure families with school-aged children. The kits included provide low fat, low sugar breakfast, lunch...
Members of the Women's Preschool STEM Committee were joined by volunteers from Johnson & Jonson's WiSTEM2D employee group for an April activity that explored the properties of sound. Children experimented with rulers, looms strung with rubber bands and different sized tuning forks. In additiion to making different types of sound...
