12/03/2021
THE GLEN RIDGE COMMUNITY FUND NEEDS YOUR HELP TO HELP OUR NEIGHBORS
Dear Friends and Neighbors:
Glen Ridge residents need your help, and contributing to the Glen Ridge Community Fund is a caring way to do this. The consequences of the pandemic and its aftermath remind us all that appearances of prosperity can be deceiving. We know that residents faced financial difficulties and families dealt with food insecurity. Since 1953, the GRCF has been working to help provide resources, funding services to residents in need.
To those who are not familiar with the GRCF, its mission is to raise funds to assist GR residents seeking help from accredited local social service organizations. We do an annual fundraising campaign, and you’ll find our volunteers behind the registration tables and assisting runners at the beloved annual Fitzgerald’s 1928 Lager Run, whose profits benefit the GRCF.
To those of you who have helped the GRCF assist our neighbors in need over the years - and especially in these recent challenging years – we thank you so much!
Thanks to your support, in 2020 and early in 2021, the GRCF, in partnership with Neighbor to Neighbor Network/Bloomfield Human Services, provided funds for GR residents to receive grocery gift cards, enabling them to buy what they needed with privacy and dignity.
Please help us continue to support the organizations that need aid to fund their vital programs. We are grateful to support these agencies, including The Human Needs Food Pantry, Neighbor to Neighbor (direct financial and other assistance), COPE (mental health and addictions), Chrill Care (meals for the homebound), the local YMCA, and our own GR Volunteer Ambulance Squad, among others. Once again, the GRCF is providing funds to offset the cost of the weekly grocery jitney service for our resident seniors.
Please help us help our Glen Ridge neighbors. Donations in any amount to the GRCF, a tax-exempt 501(c) (3) organization, are fully tax-deductible and employer-matchable.
If you would prefer, you can mail check to: Glen Ridge Community Fund, PO Box 27, Glen Ridge NJ 07028.
For more information, go to
http://www.grcf.org/
or to donate from the website
http://www.grcf.org/donate
Thank you for supporting the Glen Ridge Community Fund!
