Being Good Neighbors NJ Event

Postponed Until

August 13, 2022

Fields of Friends™ has gratefully always had support from the JTHS Class of ’86.  We are thrilled to have found a fun and exciting way for all of us to get together and serve in our community at the same time.  We are excited to have our inaugural ‘Being Good Neighbors’ event in Oak Ridge, NJ on August 14th, 2021.  The best part of this event is that we are looking forward to meeting your families and well as your significant others.  While this is not officially a ‘class reunion’, we believe that this will set a trend on how future ‘reunions’ are held.  A project-based reunion that is purpose-driven; a Fields of Friends event for everyone.

We have an ambitious and totally attainable goal. Together we will work with Harvest Pack to package 45,000 meals. These meals will be distributed throughout our community. For just .51 cents a meal, we will impact our neighbors in a meaningful and innovative way. Our Board of Directors has worked hard to adapt to today’s’ challenges. We have developed a new and innovative program that we know will have a huge impact on the youth in our community. Our goal is to supply the three food pantries in Jefferson and well as working with teachers and principals in area schools to distribute meals discretely to the most food vulnerable students by putting meals in their backpacks. We are asking our JTHS graduates that are teachers, to assess if there is a need for such a program in the school. Suzanne’s brother, Bill, is a teacher at a high school with a high rate of students that are food vulnerable on the weekends. We plan to work with his school and 9 others to be named later. (Please message me and let’s talk about how you can help the most vulnerable students in your school.) Packaging and distributing food throughout our surrounding neighborhoods will be a fun and rewarding experience.

We will need 300 plus volunteers to join us on the event day to assemble & distribute all of the boxes of food.  Then a fun ‘party’ in the park for everyone to relax, eat, and celebrate our reconnection.  We know that with your help, our vision will come to fruition.

There are still many details to work out but we would love your thoughts, input and support as we explore new ways to empower and connect our friends and neighbors.

Our first step to reach our monetary goal is our coffee fundraiser.  If you love coffee, please consider going to our coffee fundraiser and using the promo code to purchase a delicious new brand.  For every bag sold Vera Roasting will donate $3.00 to help reach our fundraising goal.