September 11 Week of Service and Remembrance

Registration is now open for September 11 Week of Service and Remembrance, 800 volunteers will unite and work together to make a positive change. There will be a special 300-person project sponsored by Starbucks that will revitalize a community center in Philadelphia.

All projects will be on Friday, September 9th and Saturday September 10th in Philadelphia and Hunterdon County. Projects include:

· Philadelphia Community Center Revitalization in West Philadelphia-Volunteers will paint classrooms and murals, build raised beds and picnic tables, and create kits to be given to the children of the community center.

· Plant It Forward in Pittstown-Volunteers will harvest vegetables for free farmers markets in Newark and Jersey City.

Sites have varying age limits. Please check before registering. Volunteers under the age of 18 must have a youth waiver signed by their parent or guardian in order to participate. Click HERE to download a youth waiver.

On this particularly momentous 15th anniversary, volunteers will come together to make our communities stronger on a day that was intended to tear them apart.

For more information and a full list of projects, please visit: http://www.jerseycares.org/JC_Annual_Events