How Businesses & Employees Can Help

Who We Are

The Children's Home Society of New Jersey, a nonprofit organization that serves the people of New Jersey and eastern Pennsylvania, offers adoption and foster care options and comprehensive social services for at-risk children. The services focus on doing what is best for children and building healthy families. There are many ways you can help us help children. Click on the links listed below to find more information about our volunteer opportunities.

Partnership of Caring:

What We Offer Our Community Partners
Ten Ways to Help Children
Baby Bottle Formula for Hope
Special Events Opportunities

We want to be a community partner with you

We are establishing partnerships with businesses - large and small - and community organizations - community groups, formal or informal, schools, and religious institutions - to help us help children.

We can help other help children

Partnerships of caring focus on social investing, not philanthropy, thereby helping businesses and community organizations that want to effectively participate in their community. For businesses, this includes investing in employees because volunteer projects develop teamwork skills, strengthen employee morale, improve employee retention, and develop pride in a company. People who volunteer say that being a volunteer gives them a healthy perspective on life, makes them feel needed, helps them deal with personal problems, and provides contacts that can help the business. Social investing offers a big return - especially to children.

We provide information that employees can use, including:

We match people with volunteer options, and identify adoption options for prospective parents.

We can bring this information to the company's workplace:

• Presentations: We can offer free lunchtime seminars on several topics, such as international adoption, domestic adoption, and choosing the right child care for your child.
• Web sites: We can provide information on adoption, volunteer options, and other services for your website.
• Health/education/general information fairs: We can supply people and informational materials for events.
• Human Resource/Community affairs departments: We can provide materials year-round for employees.
• Other options: Let us know if there are other ideas that fit your needs.

We can help you be active in the community by helping children

We ask companies and groups to identify those options and opportunities that fit best their needs. Other materials
"How you can help children," "Special events opportunities," provide more details on what can be done to help children.

We publicly recognize companies, organizations and employees:

• We can send releases to newspapers that share the news of how you helped children and families.
• We can publicize the work in our newsletter, which is distributed to over 11,000 people.

For information: Betty Bohlert at .

If your company has a foundation

We can work with you and your funding priorities to enhance innovative programs or special services that provide effective services that can help children or families.
For information: Betty Bohlert at .

If your company has a matching gifts program

You can ask your employer to match a donation you or your group of employees makes to our direct service programs.

Thank you for helping children.

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Ten Ways to Help Children

A summary of options for businesses and community organizations

There are many options and opportunities for businesses and community organizations that want to help children through CHS of NJ. The options range from awareness building to program funding, with many choices in between. We encourage you to consider what options would fit your interest in helping children. If you have other innovative ideas, please let us know.

1. Web access: Posting CHS of NJ news (events, services) on your website
2. Free lunchtime seminars: Explaining adoption options and process
3. Company/employee drives: Collecting everyday supplies children need *
4. Volunteer opportunities: The options vary and all are important
5. Underwriting assistance: Publications, other items, special events
6. Special events: These offer many - and fun - ways to help children **
7. Foster children fund: Supporting a fund for foster children
8. Program funding: Many services to children operate at a loss
9. Specialized talents: Sewing? Arts and crafts? Homemade jewelry? *
10. December holiday drives: Collecting new toys for children

For information on any of these options contact Valerie Noble at .

* See "Volunteer opportunities" for details.
** See "Special events opportunities" for details.

Thank you for helping children.

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