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Helping Our Healthcare Workers

Best Western partnered with…Caring Capital, which produces “Healthcare Hero” personal-care gift packages by staging team-building programs for groups that bundle the useful items donated to “neighbors in need.”

News 12’s Spotlight New Jersey -ConnectOne ‘Community Connections’ event

Brief Description: More than 60 ConnectOne bank employees took part in the bank’s annual “Community Connections” charity event, organized by Caring Capital.

Backpack Gift Sets for Displaced Migrant Children

More than 100 employees in four NY and NJ-based companies decorated and stuffed Backpack Gift Bundles recently for 60 displaced immigrant children separated from their parents at the USMexico border.

Blankets, Pillows Assembled by Gerber Employees in Florham Park

FLORHAM PARK – Colorful design patterns, shaped like plants and animals, were scattered along tables in a room at Nestlé Infant Nutrition, the headquarters of Gerber, for a day of service on Thursday, Aug. 10.

Vertellus Crafts “Custom Crates” for Youth Served by Children’s Aid and Family Services

WHIPPANY — In a hands-on service project, 35 employees of specialty chemical company Vertellus built, assembled and decorated custom hand-carved “toy boxes” for eight girls age 8-12 served by Children’s Aid and Family Services.

Volunteers build for Morristown senior women on Valentine’s Day

Employees of a commercial real estate firm spent Valentine’s Day morning giving back to their community, building bookcases and shelves at a home for senior women.

Morristown woman links companies with communities

When the recession hit in 2008, Susie Schub saw how her Morris County community was struggling. The Morristown resident watched as more and more people lost their jobs and began reaching out for help from local groups.

NJBIZ – Connecting Companies to Causes is a Win-Win Situation

Caring Capital ran more than 70 events in 2014, as more companies have started to pay attention to the interest in social responsibility among the notoriously hard-to-retain millennials. With that in mind, Caring Capital has had a part in helping retain roughly 25,000 employees nationwide. That’s the number of workers who have participated in the charitable team-building activities Caring Capital has organized since its 2009 founding.

A.J. O’Connor Associates

Partnership with Caring Capital gives AJO executive coaches success-driven tool kits to help champion philanthropic team-building with their own corporate clients.