Holiday Hands Brings Joy This Holiday Season to Neighbors in Need

The United Way of Hunterdon County’s Holiday Hands is undertaken every year to match local companies, organizations and individuals with children, families and individuals in need during the holiday season.

This year’s project was a huge success, brightening the holiday season for many residents here in Hunterdon County. The community’s outpouring was beyond our wildest dreams. This year the United Way worked with 58 local businesses, organizations, schools, families and individuals who were able to serve nearly 700 individuals through twenty-three agencies in the county.

Both large and small companies were represented by their generous giving. Some of the participating companies included, 3M, ExxonMobil Research & Engineering, Greenman-Pedersen Inc., Hunterdon Orthopaedic Specialists, Broadway Bound Dance Center, Ingersoll-Rand, Flemington Car & Truck Country, J.R. Land, Sports Physical Therapy Institute, The Print Shoppe, Inc., Liberty Mutual Group, Medisys Health Communications, John Gaddy’s Karate Studio, Phillips Barber Family Medical Center, Princeton Hydro, Shop Rite of Hunterdon and Somerset Valley Bank.

The United Way also had many organizations, churches and individual participants this holiday season, including the Church of the Holy Spirit, Voorhees High School Key Club, Round Valley United Methodist Church, Raritan Valley Community College Theater, Clinton Presbyterian Church’s Missions Committee, Lester D. Wilson School and the Rotaract Club of Hunterdon County.

Once again, the Clinton Elks Lodge helped to spread some holiday spirit by organizing a toy drive to assist the United Way with the Holiday Hands program. The toys were used to help fill in any areas with unmet needs in the Holiday Hands program.

United Way of Hunterdon County is focused on supporting programs that lend assistance to children at-risk, people with disabilities, families in crisis, the elderly, and the hungry and homeless. In the past year alone, nearly 40% of the people that live and/or work in Hunterdon County benefited from a program supported by United Way. For more information or to make a tax deductible donation, please call (908) 782-3414 or send to P.O. Box 2290 Flemington, NJ 08822.

January 2005