Prospectus
The Volunteer Center of South Jersey (VCSJ) Volunteering Campaign lasts throughout the year, but encompasses two signature events (that span across 7 counties of South Jersey): South Jersey Family Day of Service (May) and Family Volunteer Day (November).
This initiative has targeted impact areas of hunger/homelessness, military, animals, environment, children, literacy, teens, and healthy lifestyles.
Some of the positive effects of volunteering are:
- Bringing family closer
- Value systems are strengthened by volunteering
- Volunteering makes you feel good
- Strength in numbers
- Children see how fortunate they are
- It’s fun; social; volunteering gives children/youth something to do
- Volunteering has a positive influence on the people families help
The Family Volunteering Campaign’s outreach strategies also motivate businesses and other nonprofits to recognize the value of family volunteering. Since 2014, over 4,000 volunteers completed more than 350 day of service projects, totaling 225,000 volunteer hours through the Family Volunteering Campaign.
Volunteer Center of South Jersey commits over 2,500 staff resource hours annually to insure the success of both community-building family events. Along with committed resource hours, VCSJ has also invested in technology to make it easy for busy families to get involved.
Funding to VCSJ provides staff planning hours, operations and marketing to broaden the community outreach, and supplies for projects, that cannot otherwise be donated (i.e. paint supplies, clean-up supplies, donation project supplies, etc).
VCSJ has also developed a number of resources, including:
- Family Guide to Volunteering
- NPO Event Participation Toolkit
- DIY Project Guide
How to make a donation:
Send checks payable to "FUND NAME" and send to: Community Foundation of South Jersey P.O. Box 446 Haddonfield, NJ 08033 For contributions of appreciated securities, please be sure to notify Lee Albright, lalbright@communityfoundationsj.org, 856-528-3385 regarding your gift at the time of transfer. In this way, stocks can easily be identified, retrieved, sold, and directed to your fund without delay. Please direct all stock contributions to: Fidelity Investments DTC Number: 0226 Account Number: X39-154555 Account Name: Community Foundation of New Jersey, our parent organization, for further credit to the Fund. For current year tax benefits, contributions must be received by December 31. Please note that with some brokerage houses we have experienced that security transfers may take 14–21 days for settlement, so please plan accordingly with your year-end giving to your fund. For wiring instructions for cash contributions, please contact Lee Albright, lalbright@communityfoundationsj.org or Patty Heath at pheath@cfnj.org or 973.267.5533, x223 For making a grant from a DAF with another charity organization, make the grant to Community Foundation of New Jersey - Fund Name, EIN 22-2281783, PO Box 446, Haddonfield, NJ 08033, please notify Lee Albright when making the grant at lalbright@communityfoundationsj.org, 856-528-3385 |