UBS

A phenomenal group of UBS interns recently brightened up the day for 40 children in the summer program at a Hoboken youth services organization. Volunteers led the children in relay races, craft projects, an internet scavenger hunt, and taught them the value healthy eating and an active lifestyle through nutrition workshops. Thanks so much to UBS interns for spending a summer Friday volunteering with a Jersey Cares partner agency!

BASF Volunteers Beautify a Youth Shelter

Proudly sporting blue t-shirts emblazoned with the BASF logo, 77 employee volunteers from offices in New Jersey, Louisiana, Texas, Michigan, North Carolina, Germany and Mexico descended upon a local youth shelter to really make a difference in the community. BASF employees planted both vegetable and flower gardens, painted new line games outside and new canvas murals inside, refinished an outdoor wooden patio set and spent time with the youth residents teaching financial literacy. Thanks so much to BASF for bringing such an amazing group of volunteers!

ADP Volunteers Paint New Line Games, Lead Nutrition Workshops and Plant Flower Garden

A group of ADP volunteers really brightened up a Newark elementary school with a fresh coat of paint, beautiful flowers, and their sparkling personalities as they taught fitness and nutrition workshops for students in the 1st - 3rd grades. Volunteers also painted a map of the United States and line games in the kids’ courtyard to encourage healthy activity and physical fitness. Great job ADP!

New York Jets Volunteers Revitalize Playground

Recently, over one hundred employees of the New York Jets organization, including head coach, Rex Ryan, renovated an entire school playground and assembled brand new picnic tables for a Newark high school. That same day, Goldman Sachs employees painted hallway murals in a Hudson County middle school and taught budgeting and financial responsibility classes to local eighth graders.

Barclays Volunteers Clean Shore Lines

A group of employee volunteers from the Jersey City Barclays office recently traveled to Sandy Hook to clean a portion of their beach and shore line for the upcoming summer season. Volunteers spent a few hours of their Saturday morning clearing debris and then enjoyed a picnic lunch in the sand. Thanks so much to Barclays volunteers!

Home Depot Volunteers Paint Murals, Plant Flowers and Lead Soccer Drills

Over 60 Home Depot volunteers recently spent the day revitalizing a high school in Newark. Volunteers painted new murals, touched up existing murals, planted new flowers and shrubs in all the grass areas surrounding the school and cleaned out the rose garden area to prepare for summer science classes. Additionally, some soccer players from the Mexican National Soccer Team participated in the project and lead a soccer clinic with the boys and girls soccer teams. Great job Home Depot!

To get your company involved in the Jersey Cares Corporate Service Program, please contact Sherry Lynn Fazio at 973-424-1091.