Franciscan Community Development Center

10/01/2026

🤝💫Your help is needed now! Franciscan Community Development Center, a nonprofit organization serving the only food desert in Bergen County, New Jersey, lost their lease and is undertaking a capital campaign to relocate their services to a new building to assist seniors, children, families and veterans and to provide aid with compassion, dignity and hope.

🆘How can you help?
• During Hunger Action Month, learn about their extensive services.
• Support their efforts to provide meals and make a donation.
🖇Visit their website. Scan the QR code in the graphic or check the Comments 👇.
• Volunteer your time. Call 201-941-1000, or contact [email protected].

Thank you!

09/29/2026

We’re thrilled to share that Franciscan Community Development Center is a recipient of a Neighborhood Partners Program grant from the PSEG Foundation! This grant strengthens our Hot Meal Program, enabling us to serve nutritious, sustaining meals to underserved seniors, veterans, women, and children— bringing us one step closer to ending food insecurity. We’re grateful to the PSEG Foundation for investing in our mission and the communities we serve.

09/14/2026

Wonderful event

🎉Sign Up to Experience the MP3 Experiment Audio Flash Mob!
Spend Your Evening on October 3 at Illumination 250.

🖇️Register Now for Improv Everywhere’s Grand Sound Adventure: https://tinyurl.com/MP3ExperimentOct3

🗓⏰Date/Time: Saturday, October 3 | 7:50 PM - 8:45 PM
📍Location: Atlantic Street Park, 102 State Street, Hackensack, NJ 07601

Free | All ages welcome.

The MP3 Experiment is a one-of-a-kind participatory event created by Improv Everywhere’s comedian and director Charlie Todd.

🤝Illumination 250 is a collaborative project of the HACPAC, Inc. - Hackensack Performing Arts Center, Northern New Jersey Community Foundation, Main Street Business Alliance (Downtown Hackensack), Greater Bergen Community Action, Inc. - GBCA, Inc., and the City of Hackensack, NJ and supported by funding through the NJEDA's New Jersey Economic Development Authority (NJEDA) A.R.T. – Phase II Grant Program.



New Jersey State Council on the Arts
State of the Arts

09/11/2026

08/29/2026

We’re building more than a center — we’re building HOPE, DIGNITY, and a permanent home for our COMMUNITY

PLEASE DONATE;
GoFundMe: https://gofund.me/d86b0ab47

Website: https://www.franciscancdc.org/help-us-build-our-center

08/27/2026

🇺🇸For 20 years, we have been here for our VETERANS & SENIORS ❤️🇺🇸

WE INTEND TO BE THERE TOMORROW TOO!

PLEASE DONATE:
https://www.franciscancdc.org/help-us-build-our-center
https://gofund.me/d86b0ab47

Please help make this possible 🙏🏻
Donate. ❤️ Share. 🤝 Lend a hand

08/26/2026

❤️ 7,500 REASONS WE CANNOT CLOSE OUR DOORS ❤️7,500….It’s more than a number PLEASE DONATE:
https://www.franciscancdc.org/help-us-build-our-center
GoFundMe: https://gofund.me/d86b0ab47
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🤝 Help us spread hope

It’s a senior choosing between groceries and medication.
It’s a veteran who needs a hot meal.
It’s a mother struggling to put food on the table.
It’s a child who should never know the pain of hunger.

08/24/2026

20 YEARS OF SERVICE ❤️

For 20 years, the Franciscan Community Development Center has opened its doors and extended a hand to anyone in need — completely pro bono.

Today, we are asking you to extend a hand to us.

Our Center and our Franciscan Sisters must leave. We are working to build a new permanent place nearby so the 1,040 families and more than 7,500 individuals who depend on us are not left behind.

Would you lend a hand, so we can continue extending ours?

🙏 Donate if you can.

https://www.franciscancdc.org/help-us-build-our-center

https://gofund.me/d86b0ab47

❤️ Share if you can’t.
Every act of kindness matters.