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JACKSONVILLE  community center BREAKFAST
a gREAT WAY TO START THE nEW yEAR!
Our thanks to Bob Dyson and all the volunteers at the Jacksonville Community Center who made the JCC the "place to be for breakfast" on Sunday, January 8, 2012.  With mild weather and generous spirits, residents of Springfield Township and surrounding areas made their way to the Jacksonville Community Center for delicious eggs, bacon, pancakes and homefries.  A total of $1,352.00 was raised for The Give Back Foundation at this event.  We hope to see you all there again next January! 

Cub Scout Pack 116 of Millstone Collects and Donates Food to GBF's Food Pantry

During the weekend of December 18, 2011, Cub Scout Pack 116 of Millstone, NJ collected and donated 3 large boxes of food to our food pantry, which we quickly redistributed to a local family in need this holiday.  Thank you, scouts, for your hard work in helping others in need! 

Salon Extraordinaire in Robbinsville Does it Again!!!

Just when we thought they could not possibly get any more generous, Val Nebbia, her family and salon clients came through in spades for us, delivering a bounty of food for our food pantry at Thanksgiving and a huge bucket of toys and other goods for a family in need this holiday season. 
Thank you hardly seems good enough to express our gratitude.

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The Residents of Heritage Green Support The Give Back Foundation and a Local Family in Need

The K. Hovnanian Heritage Green Development in Allentown, NJ, recently "Gave Back" to a local family that was displaced by fire shortly before the holiday season.  Numerous families collectively donated over $1,000 in cash, gift cards, clothing, furniture, food and homemade cookies to help this family get back on their feet again.   Acts like this help us to define what it means to be a good neighbor.  We, as well as the family affected, greatly appreciate your kindness and generosity.  
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The Kiddie Academy of Allentown, NJ
Gives GBF and Its Recipients
Something to be Thankful for this Thanksgiving



The Food that the children and families of the Kiddie Academy collected/donated
to GBF's Food Pantry nearly filled an entire pickup truck!

A shout out of "thanks" to the Maxwell Family, Kathy Naugle, the children and the families at The Kiddie Academy in Allentown, NJ for your monetary as well as food donations.    May you be as blessed as we feel to have you as a community partner.

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B-I-N-G-O

On Friday, November 4, 2011, The Allentown First Aid and Rescue Squad Building on Route 526 was transformed into a Bingo Hall for GBF's 1st Handbag Bingo Event.   This event was sold-out in advance with seating for 125 participants.  Beautiful handbags by Vera Bradley, Coach, Brighton and Sherpani were offered as prizes to winners lucky enough to call "Bingo". 

We would like to thank all participants who purchased tickets.  We would also like to extend gratitude to Georgette & Kevin Keenan at Necessities for the Heart in Allentown, NJ, for assisting us with handbag selection and for always supporting GBF and its endeavors to help area residents struggling with life altering circumstances.   Also, we could not have hosted this event without the generous support of Ruth Ann, Carol and other members of the Allentown First Aid Squad, who personify what it means to be selfless in their outstanding service to our community.   Also, special thank you "shout outs" to the Tallarido family for donating the grand prize and door prizes for this event and also to Nanci Tallarido for lending her time and kind heart to so many school and community events, to former GBF President, Michele Lawrence for her continued support of GBF and it's endeavors as well as her assistance with ticket sales and for making the Sherpani connection for us,  to the Sherpani company for their donation of beautiful & functional totes and bags as bingo & raffle prizes (their bags are made of 67% recycled products and many have won Health Magazine's Best of Fitness awards - way to go green!!),  to Redken and Loreal for their wonderful raffle prize donations and for keeping us beautiful, to the Village Pharmacy, La Piazza, The Alps Restaurant and Necessities for the Heart for assisting with ticket sales (and to Village Pharmacy for their Door Prize donation), to Shop-Rite and BJ's at Hamilton Market Place for their gift card donations, to Ron and Myrtle Dunster for their leadership and for purchasing, preparing and donating food for our event and of course we are most grateful to our board members and volunteers Tony Caprio, who was a fabulous bingo caller and helped to keep our event light-hearted and fun and to Jim Struble for his and Tony's good nature and muscle in helping to set up.  To our most committed volunteers Kevin and Linda who always offer their assistance at any event we have - we are grateful for your commitment to our organization and for your generous spirit in helping others.  

We hope you will join us in the Spring as we host our 2nd Bingo Event!  We will have a special theme to be announced after the first of the year.  Stay tuned!!!

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GBF'S ANNUAL GIFT AUCTION A GREAT SUCCESS!

On Saturday, October 1, 2011, the 250+ attendees of GBF's Annual Gift Auction were treated to a Tricky Tray event that featured over 316 wonderful prizes and a 50/50 with a cash payout value of $768.00.  Prizes such as a 40" TV, 32" TV, Kindle, over 110 gift cards and gift certificates, a work of art "Money Shirt" valued at $275.00 and a (1) week getaway vacation at Barefoot Paradise Resort in North Myrtle Beach, SC, were just a sampling of the prize offerings.  We wish to extend our heartfelt thanks to all of our donors for making this event a possibility for us.  Also, gratitude goes out to all our volunteers who worked so hard to make this event a success including our Chairwoman Marge and her husband Jim, Tony, who worked so hard soliciting from area businesses and Ruthann who worked so hard with set-up/clean-up!  We also want to thank our basket makers and bakers who provided sweet treats for all to enjoy.   Last but certainly not least, our gratitude goes out to Ed Treadaway and The New Egypt Elks Club for doing an outstanding job with set-up, food service and general cooperation.  They are a fine organization that supports many wonderful non-profit causes and we are lucky to have them to work with for this annual event. 

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Our volunteers had a great time at Millstone Day on Sunday, September 18, 2011.  Held at Frogbridge Day Camp on Yellow Meetinghouse Road in Millstone, this annual event draws residents from Millstone and surrounding areas (including Allentown), where they share a High School.  Children were fascinated with GBF's wishing well and we had many individuals donate and inquire about possible volunteer opportunities.  We also sold Philly Pretzels, which were very popular!  Thank you to everyone who supported us and we will see you again next year!




The Stars and Stripes Livestock Show and Country Fair held at The Horse Park of New Jersey on Saturday, 8/20/11, was a great success.  Our "Your Change is Their Change" wishing well got off to a great start with a donation from the Keris family, who are always so supportive of GBF and our mission to help local residents in need.  Our thanks to them and all the other attendees who visited and/or contributed. 

Here are some photo's from this event:



GBF attended the races at the New Egypt SpeedWay on June 23, 2011 and collected food and approximately $1,000 in donations and 50/50 proceeds.   Our thanks to all who donated and supported GBF.

GBF awarded (5) college scholarships to deserving students at Allentown and New Egypt High Schools in June, 2011.  Recipients from Allentown H.S. were sisters Morgan and Amanda Silverblatt and Brian Cullinane.  Recipients from New Egypt H.S. included Casandra Rose Hinderlider and Erica McCabe.  All of these students have long, impressive records of community service and in their own ways, have already started "Giving Back".  We wish them congratulations and much success as they pursue their college careers and future.




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