Jean recently had the pleasure of meeting with the students and parents participating in the "Golf in Schools" program in Willingboro, NJ. The program, run by the New Jersey Golf Foundation, offers the opportunity for underprivileged children to learn how to play golf and annually impacts more than 110,000 boys and girls at more than [...]
As the new school year begins we are looking forward to working with The New Jersey Association of Student Councils (NJASC) as their charity of the year for the school year 2014-15. NJASC is one of the oldest state Student Councils in the United States with members from high schools and middle schools both public [...]
It is hard to believe we just hosted our Fifth Annual Golf Event on September 8th at Springdale Golf Club. The numbers are in and we are so happy to report we raised over $50,000 at this event. That sure is a lot of smiles to spread! As has become tradition, Christine blessed us with [...]
When we arrived at the Trenton YMCA to hold our summer book fair, the campers remembered us from last year and we were greeted with a very enthusiastic reception! The book fair is one of our favorite projects. We collect gently used books from local schools and during the summer we hold book fairs at [...]
What a great night of jazz music, delicious home made food and great friendship on June 4th at Riverside Elementary School in Princeton to help kids in need in the community. What could be better?! We thank Principal Bill Cirullo, his wife Susan Cirullo, the staff of Riverside Elementary School, the PTO, the Riverside and [...]
Last week Christine’s Hope for Kids Foundation donated $3,000 to the 2014 Times-Kiwanis Camp Fund. This donation will make an enormous impact in providing positive camping experiences for underprivileged children in the greater Mercer County area. This is the fifth year in a row we have supported the annual Times-Kiwanis Camp Fund campaign, for a [...]
The Christine's Hope for Kids Community Service Club at Hopewell Valley Regional High School recently visited the Pennington campus of Capital Health Hospital. The girls, along with school Principal Mr. Michael Daher and adviser Mrs. Heather Rich, were given a wonderful, informative tour of the facility by the staff. It was interesting to learn how [...]
We are extremely proud, honored and humbled to announce that Christine's Hope for Kids has been chosen as the NJ Association of Student Councils Charity of the Year for the school year 2014-15. It is an unbelievable honor for our Foundation to be recognized by this wonderful group. The NJASC demonstrates a tradition of excellence [...]
We made our way down to the Trenton Area YMCA last week to visit with CEO Sam Frisby and find out what the Y has planned for all the kids coming to camp this summer. There are so many great programs offered, I wanted to sign up myself! In addition to all the sports, games, [...]
This Spring we held a party for the kids at the Pat Reeves Village Shelter in West Palm Beach. What do we think of when we think of Spring? That's right, planting and flowers. But when you live in a shelter you don't often have the opportunity to do that. So we brought planting to [...]
