Community Update

Our local NhN Bergenfield, River Edge, Oradell and Westwood meetings need to build and increase our
weekly attendance and need to find some additional volunteers to be
trained on leading our weekly meetings. We are in need of more members
and leaders due to our extreme success. Many of our members and leaders
have landed from any of our local groups but our River Edge and Oradell
have been extremely successful and now need an effort to rebuild our
member attendance.

Our weekly groups see an average of 250-300
attending of our 1200 members and this group is landing jobs by putting
into action the strategies techniques and tactics they learn at our
meetings from other members in attendance. For our meeting to have
maximum success we know that we need 8-12 people there each week. We
keep the groups small to keep the personal and individual help for each
and every member.

Please help us spread the word and tell anyone you know who is out of work to consider coming to our weekly meetings.

We
know it some people hesitate to come to meetings and share their
situation with others but in today's market this is the only way you can
build a networking for find your way back to work. While our full group
stands as of today at 349 success stories our River Edge and Oradell
groups have helped 50 people get themselves back to work.

Our web
site has been voted Top 100 career site for 2013 by Forbes.com and our
LinkedIn Group has over 2600 members where more then half of them or
career professionals, HR heads, recruiters and friend of NhN who want to
pay it forward and help our members back to work. Job leads are posted
in LinkedIn every day, and many are "hidden Job Market Jobs".

Founding NhN Library Program
Opened January 27, 2011






River Edge Library
Thursdays 7:00pm-8:30pm
685 Elm Street
River Edge, NJ 07661
Phone - 201.261.1663
http://riveredge.bccls.org

Opened March 27, 2012
Oradell Library
Tuesdays 1:00pm-2:30pm
375 Kinderkamack Avenue
Oradell, Nj 07649
Phone - 201.262.2613
http://oradell.bccls.org

Opened July 12, 2011
Bergenfield Library
Tuesdays 7:00pm-8:30pm
50 West Clinton Ave.
Bergenfield, NJ 07621
Phone - 201-387-4040
http://bergenfield.bccls.org

Opened Aug.15, 2011
Westwood Library
Mondays 7:00pm-8:30pm
49 Park Avenue
Westwood, NJ 07675
Phone - 201.664.0583
http://westwood.bccls.org

Neighbors-helping-Neighbors USA, Inc. (NhN_USA) is a cost-free, nationally recognized, successful Peer-led
volunteer weekly job search support and networking group targeted to
individuals who are actively looking for work and interested in reinvigorating
their job search. Membership is open to anyone
in career transition, including unemployed or underemployed individuals and
recent college graduates in the fields of business, non-profit, and education,
as well as persons re-entering the job market, struggling small business owners
and anyone looking for part-time or volunteer work.

Founded by John R.
Fugazzie and started in River Edge, New
Jersey on January, 27, 2011, NhN has fostered
a “pay it forward” give back and an accountability weekly meeting model.

          NhN Mission



NhN is a network of volunteer peer
support groups that follow a community-based approach to help under-employed
and unemployed residents get back to work.  NhN embraces a ‘pay it
forward’ ethos, asking all associates to contribute to other members by sharing
job search techniques, related professional career development resources,
personal referrals and generally providing a forum where members feeling
empowered, energized and focused on the job search. 



       
        Goals

• Provide compassionate, nonjudgmental support to members through
  networking, coaching, leadership experience, and camaraderie.
• Partner with community business leaders to match members with job
  openings and volunteer and or paid consulting opportunities.
• Expand network reach throughout local communities where there is a
  need and interest in the New York-New Jersey metro, Boston,
  and Washington DC area and expansion into other
  states.

        Core Behaviors

• Be positive in approach and encourage others to remain positive
  when facing the inherent challenges of the job search.
• Be compassionate and firm, as needed, to maintain productive meeting
  atmosphere and consistent results orientation. 
• Be active in respective home towns by developing the group and its
  role in each community.
• Take the extra step to help members by sharing personal network and
  job leads.
• Report your success story to help others stay
  motivated as they helped you to do.