Serve -A-Thon 2012  - A Day of Service

On May 12, Pass It Along had their annual Serve-A-Thon.  This is the biggest day of Pass It Along's year and takes place at different locations all throughout Sussex County New Jersey.  These service projects include landscaping, painting, yard work, and various other projects.  At Serve-A-Thon there were 168 volunteers who accomplished 594 hours of service.  There were 20 different locations where volunteers went to help and serve.  Some of these locations included Fredon Animal Shelter, Knoll Heights, Habitat for Humanity, Ginnie's House, Project Self-Sufficiency, and many more.

I attended Little Citizens at Project Self-Sufficiency in Newton, New Jersey.  Children from ages 2 to 10 years old came to participate in their own mini Serve-A-Thon.  There were five separate projects completed at this site.  The children painted a mural to be hung up at St. John's Children's Hospital.  They also made clay creations for Ben's Bells.  Another project the children did was making peace bracelets to be given to Tilly's Kids, a mentoring program within Pass It Along.  They made Mother's Day cards and also put together little care packages for the St. John's soup kitchen.  As volunteers we watched over the kids and helped them with each of the five projects.  The kids, as well as the teen volunteers, were so cheerful and happy to be helping others.

We're Back!!

Hey All,

We started this blog a while back as a way to really get the word out about what we're doing here at Pass It Along, but alas, life and work got so busy we weren't able to keep up. But things have changed and we will be posting here more often now!

So much has happened here at PIA and we're very excited about where things are heading. We are in a new AmeriCorps year and have three very capable AmeriCorps members heading up a lot of our programs and partnering with our youth leaders on many new programs as well.

We would like to welcome Raffaela Bonventre, Patricia Chesnulovitch and Theresa Wojtecki to our staff and we hope they have a fabulous, productive year working with us here at PIA. We will be profiling them in the coming weeks along with a highlight of our Youth and AmeriCorps Alums to let you all know where some of them are now and what they are doing.

As I said, expect more blogs to come, we have so MUCH to tell you about!

That's all for now!