Pictured (l. - r.): Hoop-A-Paluza Board of Trustee members Lee Garfinkle, Jason DeSalvo, and Christopher Lutz; Bob Jones, Ph.D., President and CEO, Children's Aid and Family Services; Hoop-A-Paluza Foundation founder and Chairman Edward Zimmerman, and Executive Director Lori Robinson. |
(Paramus, NJ) June 19, 2008 - Children's Aid and Family Services recently opened a family room at the agency's 240 Frisch Court office in Paramus, in honor of the Hoop-A-Paluza Foundation, a New Jersey nonprofit public charity that concentrates its efforts on improving the physical and mental well being of children in New Jersey.
Last November, more than 800 people attended the annual Hoop-A-Paluza Foundation fundraising event in Millburn, NJ. The event raised more than $500,000, which benefited several child-centric charities, including Children's Aid and Family Services' foster care program for infants and toddlers.
"I'm tremendously grateful to Ed Zimmerman and The Hoop-A-Paluza Foundation for all they've done to help the agency," says Bob Jones, Ph.D., President, and CEO, Children's Aid and Family Services. "Naming the family room in their honor is an expression of our gratitude for their generous support. Through their support of our infant foster care program we have been able to provide medical and other vitally needed support services to medically fragile infants and toddlers."
Children's Aid and Family Services is one of the largest regional, nonprofit human services organizations serving northern New Jersey. The agency is fully accredited and has served the community for more than 100 years. Its mission is to preserve, protect and, when needed, provide families. Motivated by compassion for vulnerable children, young adults, frail elderly and their families, it provides high-quality and innovative services that meet their social, educational and emotional needs. For more information, call 201.261.2800 or visit www.cafsnj.org.
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