Giving Back

PARAMUS, N.J. — Super Bowl Champion and former New York Giants defensive lineman Leonard Allen Marshall, Jr. has been tapped an honorary member of the CarePlus Foundation Board of Trustees. 

For the past 22 years, The CarePlus Foundation has worked to support programs and services that help provide care to individuals with mental illness, in addition to education and outreach to ...

HACKENSACK, N.J. — The Northern New Jersey Community Foundation, a Hackensack-based nonprofit that champions civic engagement, education, public health, the arts and the environment, awarded 54 grants totaling almost $240,000 from its Covid-19 Rapid Response Fund to more than four dozen nonprofits in Bergen County ranging from the arts to housing to health and safety.

These ...

HACKENSACK, N.J. — In the days since a four-alarm blaze ravaged commercial buildings on Main Street in Hackensack — one of which was the Hackensack Riverkeeper offices a week ago today — the Hackensack Riverkeeper has started a GoFundMe page asking the community at large for monetary donations to begin rebuilding efforts.

More than $13,000 has been raised towards their ...

NEW YORK, N.Y. – With local food banks facing significant financial and operational challenges due to the continued impacts of COVID-19, NBC 4 New York/WNBC and Telemundo 47/WNJU are teaming up to lend a helping hand. Now through May 24, Tri-State residents can locate and make a financial donation to their local food banks by visiting WNBC’s Feeding our Families or WNJU’s ...

HACKENSACK, N.J. — Chabad of Hackensack distributed more than 1,600 masks to families in need during the Covid-19 pandemic at a free mask drive-thru Sunday. 

Under sunny skies, volunteers donned latex gloves and black and white masks emblazoned with the inspiring message, “Think Good, It Will Be Good,” a classic Chassidic adage coined by the third Chabad Rebbe, Rabbi ...

HACKENSACK, N.J. — As the sun rose over Hackensack early Saturday morning, health care workers at Hackensack University Medical Center trickled into the Alfred N. Sanzari Building on Essex Street where they were greeted by members of the Bergen County Sheriff’s Office who were ready to disinfect their vehicles.

Wearing smiles, gloves and masks, volunteers equipped with sanitation ...

HACKENSACK, N.J. -- Lawn signs displaying gratitude to health care workers abound in Hackensack.

The Hackensack Regional Chamber of Commerce and Redi Print, a Hackensack printing business offering high-quality printing and graphic arts solutions, have partnered to make these signs as a show of appreciation for all the health care workers on the front lines of this coronavirus pandemic to be ...

HACKENSACK, N.J. – The Northern New Jersey Community Foundation (NNJCF) received a grant of $125,000 from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, as part of its $50 million effort to provide humanitarian aid to help families and communities feeling the greatest strain under the COVID-19 health emergency.

The NNJCF is a not-for-profit organization based in Hackensack focusing on ...