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...
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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...
Preschool students at John F. Kennedy Elementary School learned about Pi and how we use it in everyday life. They measured the diameter of various sized circles and used the "magic" Pi formula to figure out the circumference, which they then graphed using yarn and rulers.
Our first Women United reception included featured speaker Pamela Hernanzez, princial at John F. Kennedy Elementary School. Ms. Hernandez spoke about the importance of investing in early childhood development and the positive affect that the women in the WU Preschool STEM committee have had on children in her preschool program.
THANK YOU to everyone who braved the frigid temperatures to join United Way at our annual Martin Luther King Day of Service. Held at the Community Center on Brighton Avenue in Perth Amboy, this year's volunteers assembled financial stability information, incluidng VITA, to be distributed to area residents. Thank you...
A group from Rutgers University dedicated part of their Winter break to volunteering for United Way in the community. Activities included to reading with children at a local Head Start program as well as volunteering as classroom helpers at JFK Elementary School in Jamesburg, working with pre-school and kindergarten classes. As you...
Volunteers worked with our pre-schoolers at JFK Elementary School in mid-December to figure out how different shapes and objects could help to build the highest tower. Plastic cups and popsicle sticks worked great, even paper plates, but pom-poms were determined to be "too squishy" to hold anything.