Bergen County Charity Classic - 2010 Bergen County Charity Classic Charities

2010 Bergen County Charity Classic Charities

Emerson Disabled Student Athlete Foundation (EDSAF)
Samantha Rose Reverand Foundation
Heroes and Cool Kids
Paramus Friendly Neighbors Fund
Meaningful Movement
Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation
The Friends of Philip Apreda
Philip Mazzo Sr. Memorial Foundation

Emerson Disabled Student Athlete Foundation (EDSAF)

EDSAF is dedicated to providing assistance to persons residing in the Borough of Emerson, Bergen County, New Jersey, who are attending or who attended a primary or secondary school in Emerson when such person became disabled and who now has a long term or permanent disability. The trustees of EDSAF will evaluate any request for benefits upon the submission of an application in light of the applicant’s perceived need and expected benefit of receiving the grant, taking into account EDSAF’s overall financial abilities and the expected number of applicants
In the summer of 2003, one of Emerson’s students was spending a day at the beach in Belmar, New Jersey. The young lady dove into the surf, hitting an unexpected sandbar with enough force to shatter one vertebra in her neck and fracture three others. This accident has left her paralyzed with limited use of her arms and hands and no movement in her fingers or legs, wheelchair bound for the rest of her life! Going into her senior year, she was the catcher and clean-up hitter on the high school softball team, never to play again. Concerned coaches, players, teachers, administrators, and people of the community banded together to form a non-profit, tax free charitable organization to help and support her and any other Emerson student in a similar predicament.

Samantha Rose Reverand Foundation

Samantha Rose Reverand passed away August 21, 2002 at the age of 9. Samantha was an excellent athlete, a hard working student & a loving daughter. In her memory, her family established The Samantha Rose Reverand Foundation. This foundation was set up to be a Sports/Arts/Academic based college scholarship award. The first awards will be given to the graduating class of 2011. All moneys donated to the fund will be awarded as college scholarships. The Samantha Rose Reverand Foundation would like to thank all involved for making this a successful program.
To make donations directly to the foundation, please mail them to:
The Samantha Rose Reverand Foundation
145 Woodland Rd.
Demarest, NJ 07627

Heroes and Cool Kids

Mission Statement

"The goal of Heroes & Cool Kids is to promote pro-social behavior in students and to create a caring and disciplined school climate"

Heroes & Cool Kids, which began operating during the 1998-99 school year, is a not-for-profit organization based in New Jersey. The program utilizes the services of current and former professional athletes whose personal life experiences enable them to train high school student leaders.

The athletes train high school students to mentor middle school students on important life skills, including sportsmanship, conflict resolution and positive lifestyle choices highlighting drug, alcohol and tobacco prevention.

The program runs each school year from November until May.

Heroes & Cool Kids is currently implemented in nine counties around New Jersey. The athletes and high school students make three site visits to the middle schools each year.

To prepare, the high school students must complete three training conferences before mentoring the middle school students. These conferences are held at the Vonation (Vonage in Holmdel, NJ) and at Bergen Community College in Paramus.

Paramus Friendly Neighbors Funds

Paramus Friendly Neighbors Funds was founded to support needy residents of Paramus who are struggling with basic necessities such as food, heat, and water. A donor may request funds to be used towards a particular individual or purpose. There are no administrative costs involved. 100% of donations go to needy Paramus families. For a child to join Little League, the funds would be used for all related costs, such as sports equipment.

Meaningful Movement

Meaningful Movement offers dance classes, such as wheelchair dance and musical choreography, to students with a variety of challenges, including autism, Down syndrome, spina bifida, cerebral palsy, muscular dystrophy, and other neurological and developmental issues. Classes are provided to assist the students both physically and socially. The students gain a better self-image through these classes, performances in front of audiences, and other activities. Speech and language skills are also enhanced as a variety of tools are used to help the non-verbal students to communicate (such as sign language and photo boards). The staff believes in each student’s ability to learn and grow.

Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF)

The Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF) is the world’s largest charitable supporter of type 1 diabetes research, investing more than $150 million per year into the search to find a cure.

The JDRF Northern New Jersey Chapter is located in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, and is led by a group of determined volunteers with a single mission... to find a cure for type 1 diabetes and its complications through the support of research. Funds donated to this group are used to help those in our community, Bergen County and Rockland County, living with diabetes. They would help support our outreach efforts that include our Bag of Hope program, our Halloween party (in Bergen County), our annual picnic, our diabetes expo (in Bergen County), mentor programs and education events

JDRF-funded researchers have driven the advancement of day-to-day disease management tools and accelerated the pace of research through a focus on five clearly defined cure therapeutic pathways that offer the best hope for a cure.

Since our founding by parents with diabetes, JDRF has helped thousands of children and adults living with diabetes. In Bergen County, JDRF has partnered with Hackensack University Medical Center to provide support groups for families and children. We also have been able to distribute over 100 Bags of Hope to those families newly diagnosed with diabetes. We are dedicated to providing the support needed to help families cope with diabetes until we find a cure.

The Friends of Philip Apreda

The Friends of Philip Apreda Foundation is a charity put together for Phil’s family. Most importantly, our goal is to help his His children with their future education. The foundation is a group of Phil’s childhood friends and teammates from Teaneck High School. With Phil’s help, we formed a brotherhood, and that bond is stronger than life or death. Our goal is to raise enough money to ensure that Phil’s children, our extended family, are able to continue their education as Phil would have wanted.
In life, Phil touched many poeple. With his passing, it is our time to continue the work that he started.
--The Friends of Philip Apreda

The Philip Mazzo Sr. Memorial Foundation

The Philip Mazzo Sr. Memorial Foundation was started in memory of Philip Mazzo Sr. to allow the spirit and dedication that Phil demonstrated to live on in the Bergen County youth who suffer from rare genetic disorders that limit their ability to participate in the sports that they love.

The PMSM Foundation works to help families with children who have rare genetic disorders by providing monetary and voluntary assitance to improve areas of the children's lifes that otherwise the family would not be able to afford. The areas include, but are not limited to, transportation for medical purposes, purchasing new equipment / medical items and helping kids get access to top doctors in their respective disease states.