Patch will make a $1 donation to AmeriCares for every tweet with the hashtag #PatchRebuilds.
You can help rebuild communities that were hit by Hurricane Sandy by donating cans of food, volunteering for cleanup efforts—or simply sending a tweet. Patch is excited to announce our new effort to help support devastated communities after the storm. For every tweet sent with the hashtag #PatchRebuilds, we will donate $1 to the AmeriCares Hurricane Sandy Disaster Relief Fund, up to $125,000. Your contribution will go toward medical and humanitarian aid, grants and programs to help Sandy survivors. You can simply tweet the hashtag #PatchRebuilds, or go to our Patch Rebuilds website, rebuilds.patch.com, and tweet directly from the site. A customized tweet that starts “My heart belongs to…” is created from the Patch Rebuilds website, and …
Hurricane donation center operated by West Caldwell Police Department open from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. through Sunday.
Story updated 10 a.m. Wednesday. The donations just keep coming in. More than 54 pallets of items have been collected for victims of Hurricane Sandy by the West Caldwell Police Department since their donation center opened Saturday. The response is greater than co-organizers WCPD officers Det. Paul Mazzeo and Sgt. Shaun O’Dowd ever imagined. “Everybody’s chipping in,” O’Dowd said Tuesday. “It’s been incredible.” Surrounded by rows and rows of packed boxes piled four-high, O’Dowd spoke about the generosity displayed by the community. Howard Gordon of Goodrich Management Corp. opened the doors of the empty retail space, formerly K.B. Toy Works, at 911 Bloomfield Avenue for the effort. West Caldwell-based VitaQuest donated hundreds of …
Here's what you can do to help residents of Jersey Shore impacted by Hurricane Sandy.
Numerous local efforts to help victims of Hurricane Sandy are under way in the Caldwells. Business owners, college students and everyone in between are rolling up their sleeves to help those most greatly impacted by the Oct. 29 storm that devastated areas of the Jersey Shore. Here’s a guide to local drop-off locations for donations. Caldwell College will be collecting items and packaging “comfort kits” to assist with Sandy relief efforts and to be donated where need is greatest. Items will be donated to the American Red Cross. Members of the community are invited to drop off donations any time in the Student Center lobby. Drive-up hours at the Newman Center are Tuesday and Thursday, Nov. 13 and 15, from 5 to 7 p.m. Donations will be …
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5:07 pm on Sunday, November 18, 2012
just making sure used toys will be accepted more ›