Festival of Trees Celebration – Supporting Local Causes
Funds and awareness for causes such as the Veterans at Valley Brook Village in Basking Ridge, NJ. Get the full story.
Continue Reading →Funds and awareness for causes such as the Veterans at Valley Brook Village in Basking Ridge, NJ. Get the full story.
Continue Reading →Girl Scout Cadets from Troop 60988, work on their Silver Award through raising awareness about the Veterans at Valley Brook Village. Get the full story.
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Continue Reading →This month, volunteers from the Somerset Hills YMCA staged a healthy cooking class, dinner and fellowship at Valley Brook Village, a residential home for formerly homeless Veterans located on the VA property in Basking Ridge. More than 15 volunteers helped plan, cook for and stage the event which attracted more than 40 resident Veterans. Local […]
Continue Reading →The soldier tightly gripped his M-4 rifle, pointing it at his head. He felt isolated at Kandahar Air Force Base in Afghanistan. Capt. Doris Ruiz received the call to help keep him from becoming another war statistic. “I just kept talking to him, slowly, in Spanish,” said Ruiz, an Army master resiliency trainer now based […]
Continue Reading →Chicago-based National Equity Fund® (NEF) was presented with the National Coalition of Homeless Veterans’ Outstanding Corporate Partner Award at NCHV’s annual awards banquet last Thursday in Washington, D.C. The award is presented to corporate partners that have played a vital role in reducing the number of homeless veterans by more than 70 percent since 2005. […]
Continue Reading →Affordable Housing Finance is pleased to announce the finalists of its 10th annual Readers’ Choice Awards for the nation’s best developments of 2013-2014. The 34 finalists in nine categories were selected out of approximately 130 nominations. They will be featured in the July/August issue of Affordable Housing Finance and online at HousingFinance.com, and then subscribers […]
Continue Reading →Proceeds benefit the organization’s Hope for Veterans programs that will serve homeless and wounded veterans and their families struggling with homelessness in the year ahead. “This year’s event is especially important as we strive to save as many as 1,000 veteran families from homelessness and despair,” said J. Michael Armstrong, chief executive officer of Community […]
Continue Reading →On Wednesday, March 26, a group of Somerset Hills YMCA volunteers banded together as part of the Y’s new ‘Togetherhood’ Volunteer Initiative to engage with the veterans in activities designed to improve their quality of life and provide social interaction. The veterans, who often experience isolation and feelings of being disconnected, live in Valley Brook […]
Continue Reading →Award was presented by Central Jersey Housing Resource Center (CJHRC.)
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