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Staff and students at the Cambridge School in Pennington collected candy and created greeting cards for soldiers serving overseas this holiday.
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The Regulatory SMART Department at Novo Nordisk, Inc.
in Princeton Adopted A Unit and collected items, helped put together care packages and helped with shipping costs
associated with the mailing.
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Members of the Community Christian Choir in Trenton
collected items for the troops with an Adopt A Unit campaign
and raised funds to help support the
Red Cross Service to Armed Forces program
during their concert performance. |
The Peer Mentor Program at the Anthem Institute collected items for soldiers and the students held a bake sale to help raise funds for shipping costs. All class sessions and staff at the North Brunswick Campus were invited to participate and the response was outstanding!
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Employees at Capital One Bank branches throughout New Jersey Adopted A Unit. In addition to collecting items, a team of Capital One employees volunteered to help our Service to Armed Forces volunteers pack up care packages. |
LOREAL employees Adopted A Unit and helped pack up their collection of items during their Employee Volunteer Day. Service to Armed Forces volunteer Terri Illes (far right) helped the team at LOREAL pack up. |
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Students in grades K-4 at Sunnymead Elementary School in Hillsborough collected items and created adorable holiday greetings to include in care packages to the troops.
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Employees at The Mercadien Group in Princeton Adopted A Unit with the American Red Cross of Central New Jersey and held an office-wide Jeans for Charity Day to raise funds to help with shipping costs and purchase additional comfort items.
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Bristol-Myers Squibb employees from both the Human Resources and the Sales and Learning departments participated in an Adopt A Unit campaign. BMS employees then volunteered to help sort and pack all the items collected, as well as raised funds to help with the shipping costs to send the packages to the troops!
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Rather than holding a Secret Santa this year, employees from Novo Nordisk’s Human Resource Services collected items and made festive care packages full of goodies to send to the troops. Quite a nice gift!
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On December 6th, eleven members of the Best of Bloomberg (B.O.B.) volunteer program came to the chapter to help
Service to Armed Forces volunteers sort and pack items
collected from Adopt A Unit campaigns. This team of Bloomberg employees also wrote holiday greetings to soldiers
which were then included in the shipment. |
Hill Wallack LLP Adopted A Unit with the Red Cross. Employees at this Princeton firm collected items and created holiday greetings for the troops. Not only did their employees also volunteer and help to pack up and ship 37 boxes filled with wonderful comfort items, but a financial donation was also made to cover the shipping costs. Thank You Hill Wallack!
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Cub Scout Pack 32, made up with Cub Scout Dens in Lambertville, East Amwell and West Amwell, Adopted a Unit. These young Cub Scouts collected items and wrote holiday cards for the troops at their November pack meeting in East Amwell.
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Cherry Hill Nursery School Adopted A Unit. Young students created special holiday greetings for the troops and collected items to help fill care packages. Thanks to all the great staff members at Cherry Hill who helped make this collection possible!
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Orange Key Realty Adopted A Unit with the Central New Jersey Red Cross Chapter. Employees from several New Jersey offices, including Monmouth Junction and Freehold,
collected
items for the troops.
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St. Peter Lutheran Church, located in the Lambertville and Hopewell Township areas, Adopted A Unit. Pastor Stephen Gewecke and members of the congregation collected items and keeps the troops in their thoughts and prayers always.
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lululemon Adopted A Unit and collected items
from customers
of this popular athletic wear shop
in Princeton.
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The People to People Student Ambassadors Program Adopted a
Unit as their Community Collaborative Project. People to People
student delegates represent their communities and schools while
traveling overseas during the summer to exchange ideas and
experiences with people of different cultures.
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Mercer County Network Connections adopted a unit and are
pictured here with some of the items collected during a recent
monthly meeting at Buckingham Place in Princeton.
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Hillsborough Elementary School Adopted A Unit
with students, parents and teachers collecting items.
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The Red Cross Club at West Windsor Plainsboro High School North collected items and wrote letters to the troops. |
The Red Cross Club at West Windsor Plainsboro High School South collected items and created holiday greetings for the troops. |
Red Cross Club member Marissa Wiener drops off their
Adopt A Unit collection at the chapter. |
Red Cross Club member Dana Lee delivers tons of goodies! |
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Employees at Bristol-Myers Squibb,
Employee Resource Groups,
put together over 250 adorable snowman goodie bags filled with
candies to be shipped to our troops serving overseas. Also
included in each bag was a newsletter created by the group that
included recent sports scores, local weather forecasts, and
additional news tidbits from Central New Jersey. Pictured here
are members of the Employee Resource Groups at
Bristol-Myers Squibb wishing the troops Happy Holidays!
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Forsgate Country Club Adopted A Unit. Danielle Nalbone
drops
off items donated by club members.
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Lambertville/New Hope Rotary Club collected items to help make
the holidays brighter for the troops. (Pictured L-R) Red Cross SAF
Volunteer Rebecca Smith, Rotarian Lauren Murphy, Junior
Rotarian Ryan Hurley of South Hunterdon HS, Rotarian Janis
Grover, Junior Rotarian Michael Hefferman of New Hope
Solebury HS, and Rotarian Mark Cowell.
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Hill Wallack LLP,'s Governement Procurement Practice Group
adopted a unit. Pictured (L-R) are Megan Schwartz, Esq., Fredrica
Morris and Maeve Cannon, Esq. with holiday cards for soldiers
created by Twaddlers and Pre-School students
(between the ages
of 1 ½ - 5) at the The Learning Experience
in Vorhees.
Not pictured is Patrick Kennedy, Esq., who also participated in the campaign.
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Dan Crociata (pictured), finance and administration vice president at Silver Line Building Products in North Brunswick, recently dropped off items collected for “comforts of home” packages that will be shipped to service men and women overseas.
Members of the Stewardship Committee at Silver Line had participated in our Adopt A Unit campaign to say “Thank You” to those who serve this holiday season. Dan Crociata also serves on the American Red Cross of Central New Jersey Board of Directors
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Cub Scout Pack 32, made up with Cub Scout Dens in Lambertville, East Amwell and West Amwell, pulled together quite a large collection for their Adopt A Unit campaign – it even included Girl Scout cookies!
The Cub Scout Pack is pictured here with visitors from the National Guard who were able to join a recent Pack meeting. Thank you to all the Cubs, their leaders and parents for supporting the troops! |
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Montgomery High School student
Jessica Kane Adopted a Unit as her
Girl Scout Gold Award Project. "It was fun to be part of the Adopt a Unit program,” said Jessica. “I got to meet a lot of nice people who were very generous and eager, as I was, to send some items from home to support our military."
The Red Cross would also like to thank the 3rd and 4th graders at Village Elementary and Girl Scout Troops 909 and 908 for all the wonderful letters of appreciation
to the troops.
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The American Red Cross of Central New Jersey Board of Directors Adopted a Unit. Members collected a large supply of items and also wrote cards to the troops.
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The Terrific Tigers (two-year old class) at Lakeview Child Center in Hamilton each added their own special finger paint design to greeting cards that contained their group photo message for the troops.
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The Mercadien Group in Princeton Adopted a Unit and collected many items. Their children wrote letters to the troops during
Bring Your Child To Work Day.
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Sisters Kate and Bri McCarthy drop off the
Adopt A Unit items collected by the Hopewell
Valley Central High School Red Cross Club. |
(
L-R) Randall Jones, Courtney Renegar, Sr. and William Dredge drop off the supplies and goodies they collected along with fellow employees at Morgan Stanley in Lawrenceville. |
Fraternity Pledges for
Rutgers
Phi Delta Chi
make cards for the troops.
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The Lambertville/New Hope Rotary Club
collected items to help make the holidays
special for the troops. Pictured L-R: Janis Grover, New Hope Mayor Laurence Keller,
Linda King present to Red Cross
SAF volunteer Rebecca Smith.
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A note to a soldier
from a West Windsor 8th grader.
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Hunterdon County Polytech SkillsUSA
students collected items including holiday
treats for the troops at their
Central Campus in Raritan Township.
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Our very first group to Adopt A Unit was
St. Mary’s Residential and Assisted Living in Lawrenceville. During Assisted Living Week, the residents and staff collected items. This group continues to write cards of appreciation to the troops and never miss a chance to send a holiday greeting!
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The Princeton Girl Scouts Adopted A Unit, collected items and prepared wonderful Holiday greeting cards for our service men and women. Pictured above are the young ladies of Girl Scout Troop 71830, one of the GS troops participating from the
Princeton Unit.
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