This year’s Giving Tree drive is collecting food and funds to support the Center for Food Action in Bergen County, which distributes more than $5 million worth of food annually to the poor and low-income. We are collecting cans, jars, and boxes of non-perishable, high-protein foods, supermarket gift cards, and cash donations.
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March for a Clean Energy Revolution
Several members of the Bergen, New York and Philadelphia Societies, and former members of the Essex Society marched in Philadelphia to advocate for Clean Energy on Sunday, July 24, 2016, the day before the Democratic National Convention opened. The purpose of the march was to advocate for the Democratic Party to make climate change and […]
Lee Porter on Fair Housing
Lee Porter (right) is pictured with Bergen member, Jean Strickholm (left). More than 50 years ago, Jean, an escort volunteer for fair housing, showed Lee the house that the Porters bought. Lee still lives there. By Janet Glass Lee Porter, Executive Director of the Fair Housing Council of Northern New Jersey, spoke at the Ethical […]
