On any given day in Newark, you can find someone giving out food to the homeless and the hungry around Penn Station. It could be a group from a church, a mosque or a charitable organization, or other ordinary folk pulling up in cars and vans. They know there’s a need. More than 2,700 people, according to city officials,...
read moreOn Tuesday, October 4th, Newcomers and Friends Club of Central Hunterdon County presented a check in the amount of $3035 to Operation Chillout. Operation Chillout is an organization that assists homeless veterans with food, clothing and shelter. Women in the picture are from Newcomers Club of Central Hunterdon and men are from...
read moreFor more than a century, the Rescue Mission of Trenton has been a beacon of hope for people who have nowhere else to turn. Now the venerable nonprofit needs rescuing of its own. “When we have a financial crisis in the shelter, it kind of rocks us to our core,” says CEO Mary Gay Abbott-Young, referring to a $400,000...
read moreCALDWELL — Participants in the West Essex YMCA’s Pioneer Trails Day Camp gave back to their community by collecting cases of water bottles and new t-shirts for distribution by Operation Chillout. The nonprofit organization provides assistance to military veterans and others who are homeless in the region. Campers solicited...
read moreJuly 25, 2016 Press Release WASHINGTON – Disabled veterans are eligible to receive an increase in their benefits next year thanks to a bill by Congressman Ralph Abraham, M.D., R-Alto, that became law over the weekend. President Obama signed Dr. Abraham’s HR 5588, the Veterans’ Compensation COLA Act of 2016, on Friday, July 22. The...
read moreHank Kalet | June 30, 2016 In a cruel irony, the administration’s reinterpretation of the rules denies emergency assistance to the poor because they are poor Cuts over the past two years to general and emergency assistance and inadequate monthly stipends provided by Work First New Jersey, the state’s welfare program, have left New...
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