OUR PARTNERS AND FRIENDS

Businesses recognize the importance of supporting the local community. If your business is seeking a way to create a positive image within the community, and among your valued customers and employees, please consider partnering with a well-respected organization such as Easter Seals New Jersey.

Contributions can be made through volunteerism, sponsorships, product donations, cause-related marketing, and more. Your business can be part of our family. Take a look at some of our largest partners and supporters below.

If you or your company is interested in volunteering your time or donating through fundraisers or employee contributions, please contact Michelle Kasper at mikasper@nj.easterseals.com, or (732) 257-6662, ext. 293. 

Announcing Easter Seals Newest Partners: 

ProFlowers

For every seasonal floral or treat ordered, ProFlowers will contribute $10 to Easter Seals to benefit local programs in our community. NOTE: Orders must be placed through www.proflowers.com/easterseals in order for Easter Seals to benefit. Please spread the word and help raise support for Easter Seals this holiday season! 

LookLoveSend

LookLoveSend LLC, provides web-based customized printing and products, including seasonal greeting cards, wedding, baby, party, and stationery items – personalized items that you can use all year long. You can go online and personalize, add photos, and then order for delivery to your office or home.

LookLoveSend LLC will contribute 30% percent of all sales of personalized cards or ANY item on their site to Easter Seals - but in order for Easter Seals to receive these contributions, you must order through www.looklovesend.com/easterseals. If you're planning on sending seasonal cards, invitations or personalized cards of any kind, please consider ordering from LookLoveSend! 

GourmetGiftBaskets.com

GourmetGiftBaskets.com has been supplying premier gift basket to consumers around the world since 2002. The company has received accolades from the likes of The New York Times and The Food Network and most recently received the TopTenReviews Silver Award for best gift baskets, citing the company as “the one stop shop for hard to find, distinctive gift baskets”.

Through the year round campaign “Give a Gift, Change a Life”,  GourmetGiftBaskets.com will make a generous contribution to Easter Seals of 25% for every gift basket purchase provided the order is placed through www.easterseals.com/giftbaskets.

Next time you're thinking of sending a gift basket, won't you please think of Easter Seals and GourmetGiftBaskets.com!

  Hair Cuttery

Throughout Autism Awareness Month in April, Hair Cuttery’s 900 salons nationwide will conduct an in-store promotion, inviting its customers to “Act For Autism” to support Easter Seals services for families living with autism in their communities.

Customers can also donate to Easter Seals online at www.haircuttery.com to receive a discount coupon toward a $25 Hair Cuttery salon service. 

Easter Seals is privileged to work with a company like Hair Cuttery, which values its role as a responsible corporate citizen and gives back to the communities in which it does business. Together, Hair Cuttery and Easter Seals can raise awareness around the needs of families living with autism and make lasting change in their lives. 

Corporate Partners & Sponsors

Century 21 Real Estate LLC

Century 21 Real Estate LLC, the franchisor of the world’s largest residential real estate sales organization, surpassed $103 million in 2011 in lifetime contributions for Easter Seals, its sole philanthropic partner since 1979.

On behalf of Easter Seals New Jersey and the over 6,000 individuals and families we serve, we extend our deepest gratitude and appreciation to the many Century 21 agencies for hosting multiple fundraising events throughout the year, volunteering their time and efforts at Camp Merry Heart, and for their continued support and commitment to our mission! Read more about their efforts for Easter Seals NJ here.

Friendly's Restaurants 

Friendly’s Restaurants has supported Easter Seals for over 30 years through its annual 'Cones for Kids!' campaign raising more than $28 million for Easter Seals.

When you visit Friendly's and support Easter Seals through Cones for Kids, you are helping to send a child with a disability to camp, where they can experience things not otherwise available to them, where dreams come to life. A place where all kids can just be themselves.

Rotary Club International 

Rotary and Easter Seals Two Friends, Two Visions that Changed Our World 

Paul Harris, founder of Rotary International, the world’s first service club organization - and Edgar Allen, founder of Easter Seals, came to know one another because of a shared a passion for service and volunteerism.

Since the 1920s, Rotary clubs have worked with local Easter Seals organizations as volunteers and event sponsors, and by offering program support through direct grants and gifts. [See Rotary-Easter Seals Timeline: Page 1 and Page 2]

Today, Rotarians nationwide continue Allen’s dedication to children with disabilities through funding and underwriting of programs that support camping and recreation programs for children, such as Easter Seals Camp Merry Heart here in New Jersey. To date, Rotary International has contributed over $5 million dollars to Easter Seals programs nationwide.

CVS/Caremark 

Easter Seals’ friends at CVS/Caremark continue to advance ways to support children with disabilities served by Easter Seals through its All Kids Can™ Program. 

Since Easter Seals was selected as a national partner in the CVS/Caremark All Kids Can™ Program in 2006, CVS Caremark’s support of Easter Seals has been nothing short of amazing with contributions of more than $8.1 million made by the company, its private foundation and its associates nationwide.

So, on your next trip to CVS, be sure to join Easter Seals in thanking CVS Caremark for all it has done over the years to improve the lives of families living with disabilities. 

Learn how CVS Caremark and Easter Seals are changing lives nationwide: www.cvsallkidscan.com/partners/easter-seals 

Amway 

Since 1983 Amway Independent Business Owners and employees have partnered with Easter Seals to support services to children and adults with disabilities and their families. During this time over $30 million has been contributed.

A.C. Moore 

As part of its Crafting a Better World initiative, A.C. Moore Arts & Crafts, Inc. has teamed up with Easter Seals for an in-store campaign and crafting event that asks customers to Act for Autism®. A.C. Moore customers can donate $1 to Easter Seals’ Act for Autism campaign at checkout and participate in a free jigsaw puzzle making event.

The campaign coincides with National Craft Month in March and National Autism Awareness Month in April, and gives customers an opportunity to express their creativity during a free "make-and-take" event, learn about autism—its signs, symptoms and support through treatment—and help support families living with autism.

ProFlowers

For every floral or seasonal treat ordered via www.proflowers.com/easterseals, ProFlowers will contribute $10 to Easter Seals to benefit local programs in our community.

If you're giving the gift of flowers, won't you please consider ordering from ProFlowers?

And, spread the word to help raise support for Easter Seals!

LookLoveSend

LookLoveSend LLC, provides web-based customized printing and products, including seasonal greeting cards, wedding, baby, party, and stationery items – personalized items that you can use all year long. You can go online and personalize, add photos, and then order for delivery to your office or home.

Starting immediately, LookLoveSend LLC will contribute 30% percent of all sales of personalized holiday cards or ANY item on their site to Easter Seals - but in order for Easter Seals to receive these contributions, you must order through www.looklovesend.com/easterseals. If you're planning on sending holiday cards, invitations or personalized cards of any kind, please consider ordering from LookLoveSend!

GourmetGiftBaskets.com

GourmetGiftBaskets.com has been supplying premier gift basket to consumers around the world since 2002. The company has received accolades from the likes of The New York Times and The Food Network and most recently received the TopTenReviews Silver Award for best gift baskets, citing the company as “the one stop shop for hard to find, distinctive gift baskets”.

Through the year round campaign “Give a Gift, Change a Life”,  GourmetGiftBaskets.com will make a generous contribution to Easter Seals of 25% for every gift basket purchase provided the order is placed through www.easterseals.com/giftbaskets!

Next time you're thinking of sending a gift basket, won't you please think of Easter Seals and GourmetGiftBaskets.com!

  Hair Cuttery

Throughout Autism Awareness Month in April, Hair Cuttery’s 900 salons nationwide will conduct an in-store promotion, inviting its customers to “Act For Autism” to support Easter Seals services for families living with autism in their communities.

Customers can also donate to Easter Seals online at www.haircuttery.com to receive a discount coupon toward a $25 Hair Cuttery salon service. 

Easter Seals is privileged to work with a company like Hair Cuttery, which values its role as a responsible corporate citizen and gives back to the communities in which it does business. Together, Hair Cuttery and Easter Seals can raise awareness around the needs of families living with autism and make lasting change in their lives. 

Do Good Rings: Move the Rings, Change the World

In an effort to make a positive contribution to society, East Brunswick, NJ residents Jared Kelner, his son Coby and daughter Tori created a product called Do Good Rings (www.dogoodrings.com) to make the world a better place, one good deed at a time. The colors, quantities and position of the rubber rings on your fingers indicate how many Good Deed levels you've completed.

The Objectives of Do Good Rings are: • Create a worldwide movement of good deeds • Inspire & motivate people to embrace volunteerism • Encourage people to give back to the world • Raise people’s awareness of and compassion for others • Generate new streams of charitable donations • Build bridges to help people connect

Do Good Rings cost $3.99 + $1 s/h and when people order a set of rings, $1 will be donated to Easter Seals New Jersey. NOTE: In order for Easter Seals NJ to receive a donation, you must select the "buy now" option next to the Easter Seals logo on the "Order Do Good Rings" page.

Do Good Rings hopes that by selling as many set of rings as possible, a local, then regional, then national, then global movement of good deeds will sweep across the world. Just imagine if everyone you meet was focused on doing good deeds for the people around them how much we could accomplish.

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Corporate Donors & Volunteers

Jersey Cares 

Jersey Cares is a non-profit organization that recruits and engages individual and corporate volunteers in community-based projects.

Recently, project directors have coordinated volunteer efforts by Home Depot and ImClone Pharmaceuticals at various Easter Seals locations.

Their efforts have been tremendous and the projects a success! We look forward to working with Jersey Cares  on future projects, both big and small.

Quest Diagnostics

Sixty-one employees from the IT Department offices of Quest Diagnostics in New Jersey and Pennsylvania recently volunteered at Camp Merry Heart as part of the company's Quest Cares Community & Giving program. The volunteers painted the Lafitte Lodge dining hall, repaired fencing, cleared bushes, leaves and unwanted brush to make way for new landscaping, and more. “They were one of the hardest working and most productive volunteer groups I have ever seen at camp,” says Jonathan Mauk, Director of Camp and Recreation. “Give them a task and they take to it quick and efficiently.”

Merck - Schering Plough

Employees from Merck and Schering-Plough (now merged) have donated their time and effort to various Easter Seals service locations such as the Franklin Workshop, residential group homes and Camp Merry Heart as part of their "Day of Caring" initiative.

Volunteers have completed such projects as an entire repainting of the interior walls at the Franklin workshop and painting pumpkins with the program participants,undertaking landscaping and beautification projects at one of Easter Seals residential homes for individuals with mental illness, and multiple clean up and repair projects at Camp Merry Heart.

Easter Seals is grateful for the efforts of their volunteers and their contributions to improve the lives of individuals with disabilities through their "Day of Caring."

Robert Half International

Easter Seals and Robert Half International, Inc. teamed up for Robert Half International, Inc.’s “Day of Caring” where volunteers lent their time to our organization to paint the interior of one of our residential facilities in Somerset County.

It was an impressive display of teamwork and commitment to the community in which they live! Easter Seals would like to thank everyone involved for helping to organize this wonderful event and we look forward to such successful collaborations in the future.

Robert Half International is the world’s first and largest specialized staffing service. For more information about Robert Half, which has more than 360 locations worldwide, please visit www.rhi.com.

Met Life

MetLife Foundation recently awarded a VOLUNTEER VENTURES grant of $1,000 to Easter Seals New Jersey’s Camp Merry Heart in support of a project proposed by Mike Bisesti, a MetLife employee who serves on Camp Merry Heart’s Advisory Board and its annual golf tournament planning committee.

The grant will provide a qualified camper who is unable to afford the camp fees with a meaningful recreation experience by funding the cost of meals, activities, staff support and accommodations for six days.   

MetLife’s VOLUNTEER VENTURES Program encourages and supports employee involvement at the local level in nonprofit organizations that work to improve the quality of life for all.  Grants are made for specific projects in which MetLife employees have continuing involvement as volunteers. For more information about MetLife, visit www.metlife.com.

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Foundations & Grants 

Avril Lavigne Foundation

Award-winning singer/songwriter and philanthropist, Avril Lavigne, launched a new foundation which will partner with leading charitable organizations to raise awareness and mobilize support for children and youth with disabilities and serious illnesses...and Easter Seals has been chosen as the first such organization!

“I visited with several organizations when I was developing my Foundation and I was impressed with the range of services Easter Seals provides and how they really work to meet the specific needs of the communities they work with,” said Lavigne in the newly-established foundation's official press release. “I’m excited to work with Easter Seals to give children and young people with disabilities the chance to have experiences they might not otherwise have.”

The Avril Lavigne Foundation and Easter Seals will work to define the details of the joint collaboration in the coming months.