Warburg Pincus Employees Take Students from Youth Consultation Services' Therapeutic Learning Center to Liberty Science Center

Volunteers from Warburg Pincus brought nearly twenty pre-school students to Liberty Science Center. Volunteers helped the kids learn about the exhibits, enjoyed lunch together and played outside before ending the day. The kids had an amazing time - thanks so much to Warburg Pincus employees!

NBA Volunteers Assemble New Cubbies at Morristown Neighborhood House

Volunteers from the NBA's Secaucus Office traveled to Morristown to build some new cubbies, playhouses and bookshelves for their after school programs. Volunteers also helped out with some yard work and learned about the programs of the agency. Thanks so much to the NBA volunteers!

Lehman Brothers Interns Revitalize Greater Newark Charter School

Interns from the Lehman Brothers Summer Program traveled to Newark, NJ to paint murals, classrooms, hallways, offices and the auditorium of Greater Newark Charter School. It was a great day and the interns finished painting the entire school just in time for new year to begin. Great job Lehman Brothers interns!

BlackRock Interns Paint Isaiah House in East Orange

Volunteers from the Summer Intern Program at BlackRock gathered at Isaiah House in East Orange on Wednesday, July 2nd to provide the shelter with a new coat of paint. Volunteers painted nearly twenty resident rooms, the community room, conference room, laundry room, multiple hallways and stairwells. They also created new picture frames for the kids to enjoy. Thanks so much to the BlackRock interns for beautifying Isaiah House. 

National Basketball Association Volunteers Revitalize Connors Elementary School

On Friday, June 27th, hundreds of the National Basketball Association's (NBA) New Jersey employees traveled to Connors Elementary School in Hoboken, NJ for a complete makeover. Volunteers painted every hallway and stairwell in the building in addition to the welcome area and the gymnasium. They also spruced up the hallways with colorful murals and built twenty new bookshelves for the library. Great job NBA!

Volunteers from PricewaterhouseCoopers Visit Seven Agencies in Newark for their Annual Day of Service

On Tuesday, June 24, over 400 employee volunteers from PricewaterhouseCoopers volunteered their time at Greater Newark Charter School, FOCUS Hispanic Community for Development, Tri-City Peoples Corporation, West Side Park, West Side Park Community Center, Broadway House and Youth Consultation Services' Youth in Action Program.

Volunteers participated in a variety of different opportunities at each agency. They worked with adult clients on financial literacy and job readiness, spent time making arts and crafts with seniors, built new playhouses and bookshelves, assembled camping, birthday and first night kits, painted classrooms and hallway murals, planted vegetable and flower gardens and designed new murals on ceiling tiles for palliative care patients. Volunteers also built new benches, picnic tables and painted outdoor line games.

Thanks so much to the volunteers of PricewaterhouseCoopers for making such an amazing impact on so many different agencies throughout the city of Newark.

MetLife Assembles New Bicycles

On Friday, June 20, employees participating in a conference from MetLife took a break from their meetings in Somerset, NJ to assemble brand new bicycles for a select group of graduating students from Greater Newark Charter School. The students were absolutely overjoyed to learn they were the recipients of new bikes as part of their graduation. Thanks so much to the bicycle builders from MetLife!

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