Wyckoff Volunteer Prepare Snack Packs For Center For Food Action

WYCKOFF, N.J. – (June 6, 2016) – Thirty volunteers from the Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage Wyckoff/Franklin Lakes real estate office collected food and created snack packs for children with the Center for Food Action as part of the annual statewide Coldwell Banker Cares Day event.

The Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage office purchased all the required items to create 445 weekend snack packs in accordance with the Center for Food Action's weekend Snack Pack program. Those items included milk, juice, fruit, mac and cheese, Chef Boyardee, granola and cereal. After collecting these goods, the volunteers carefully assembled the packages to be distributed to children qualifying for free and reduced lunch throughout Bergen County.

“We were so happy to help out such an important cause, and to be part of the larger Coldwell Banker Cares Day effort throughout New Jersey and New York,” said Jane Trust Ryan, branch vice president of the Wyckoff/Franklin Lakes office and Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage Cares chairperson.

All 52 real estate offices affiliated with Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage in New Jersey and Rockland County, N.Y. gave back to local communities via charitable efforts as part of the fourth annual Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage Cares Day event. In total, more than 700 volunteers worked a combined 3,000-plus hours during Cares Day. They collected multiple carloads of food, clothes and other needed goods, as well as more than $9,000 in financial donations for local charities through Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage Cares.

Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage Cares’ primary purpose is to provide financial assistance to charitable organizations where Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage has a presence. Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage Cares is a chapter of the Realogy Charitable Foundation, Inc.

Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage in New Jersey and Rockland County, New York, a leading residential real estate brokerage company, operates 52 offices with approximately 2,500 affiliated sales associates serving all communities from Rockland County, N.Y. to Monmouth County, N.J. Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage in New Jersey and Rockland County, N.Y. is part of NRT LLC, the nation’s largest residential real estate brokerage company. Visit www.ColdwellBankerHomes.com for more information.

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PHOTOS: Group photo of Cares Day volunteers from Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage in Wyckoff/Franklin Lakes Pictured left to right are (first row) Joanne Ciaravino, Hedy Weiss, Sally Toma, Toni Ferrarie, Mary Lynn Umland, Kate Thompson, Archana Aggarwal, Phyllis Lasser, Tim Ryan, Jane Trust Ryan, Moira Ryan, Laura Saunders, Gail Kelly, Hong Hong Chen, Linda Bober and Donna Dever, and (second row) John Keeler, Kieran Browbeer, Joe Cobell, Elizabeth Poole, Gary Giambastista, Ron Aiosa, Pat Newman, Nancy Zimmer, Matt Manista, Irene Casely, Evelin Van Riper and Alphonse Danubio.

In the second photo, Archana Aggarwal assembles a snack pack for the Center for Food Action.