Tag: Fresh Air Fund
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Director thanks local Fresh Air Fund host families
I would like to take this opportunity to thank our Fresh Air Fund host families and volunteer leaders in central and southern New Jersey. Because of their dedication and commitment, thousands of children from New York City’s low-income communities participated in our Friendly Towns volunteer host family program this summer. I am inspired by the…
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Fresh Air Fund thanks families
The Fresh Air Fund, an independent, not-for-profit agency based in New York, is thanking families in Central and Southern New Jersey for opening their hearts and home to Fresh Air children. Fresh Air children are boys and girls who live in New York City. Children who are reinvited by host families may continue with…
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Holmdel family is a Fresh Air Fund host again this summer
A family from Holmdel is looking forward to spending another summer with their “Fresh Air” companion from the big city. The Fresh Air Fund seeks host families interested in giving inner-city children the summer of a lifetime. The nonprofit organization recruits families living outside of New York City to give children who reside in low-income communities…
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Fresh Air Fund seeks host families for summer of 2018
Area residents who would like to open their home to a young visitor from New York City this summer may reach out now to the local representative of the Fresh Air Fund. The Fresh Air Fund has provided free summer experiences to more than 1.8 million New York City children from low-income communities since 1877.…
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Camp Kiddie Keep Well seeks donations
BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer EDISON — Construction of a much needed new health center at Kiddie Keep Well may soon start if the summer sleep-away camp can raise $25,000 through the end of October. The camp has provided free sleep-away summer camp for deserving Middlesex County children for more than 90 years. An anonymous…
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Family looks forward to hosting another Fresh Air visitor
By Matthew Sockol Staff Writer MILLSTONE – After hosting a child who came to them through the Fresh Air Fund in New York City, a Millstone Township couple is encouraging other residents to join them in volunteering to serve as host families. During the summer of 2016, James and Susan Nowachek participated in the Fresh…
