GI Go Fund Teams Up with Goldman Sachs and The Mission Continues to Assemble Hundreds of Care Packages for Homeless Veterans


Newark, NJ (PRWEB) July 02, 2013

Over 30 members of Goldman Sachs took element in an effort to support veterans at the moment living on the streets by joining The GI Go Fund and The Mission Continues in Newark City Hall to assemble over 200 care packages for homeless veterans.

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The care packages were created by the volunteers so that they might be distributed in the course of homeless veteran outreach events in the area. They include garments donated by Harley-Davidson and Bravado, as properly as non-perishable food supplies donated by Operation Gratitude.

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The work was element of the companys Neighborhood TeamWorks plan, which is a international volunteer initiative that permits members of the company to take a day out of the office and spend it volunteering with neighborhood nonprofit organizations. In 2012, far more than 25,000 men and women from 48 Goldman Sachs offices about the world partnered with far more than 950 non-profit organizations on a diverse array of community service projects.

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This occasion was coordinated in conjunction with the Mission Continues, an organization that grants community service fellowships to Post-9/11 Veterans, empowering them to transform their personal lives by serving other people and straight impacting their communities. The care packages were assembled with the help of Mission Continues fellows in an effort to assist other veterans get back on their feet.

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The GI Go Fund is a nonprofit organization that helps veterans and their households with locating employment, going to college, connecting to healthcare, and finding housing possibilities. The organization has made waves in current years considering that forging a historic partnership with Mayor Cory Booker and the city of Newark to head its Veterans Workplace, utilizing a smarter government approach to locate genuine solutions to the citys veteran population.

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It is appalling that males and women who served our nation in uniform with honor, courage, and commitment, should return from duty and distant battlefields to homelessness and apathy, mentioned Mayor Booker. These are men and girls who produced huge sacrifices and fought in battle to shield our liberties, our residences, and our streets. Also several of them return to appreciate precious few liberties, lack residences, and are forced to sleep in our streets. My administration is committed to providing our returning warriors the really like and respect that they have earned.

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We are proud of how Goldman Sachs and its Community TeamWorks system has partnered with our GI Go Fund to provide care packages for homeless veterans in the City of Newark. I worth the perform completed by GI Go Fund Executive Director Jack Fanous to create this critical partnership, and I urge Newark residents to help the GI Go Fund and all of our veterans.

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“When you prepare these care packages, bear in mind that these packages are intended for Americans who at a single point fought for you and I, said GI Go Fund Executive Director Jack Fanous to the volunteers. Do not feel about the tattered garments they put on nowadays, but the uniform they as soon as wore for you. Do not consider of the bridge they sleep beneath but the bunker they as soon as slept in to safeguard us. Constantly bear in mind that these packages are meant for a hero a man or lady who loved you and this nation far more than themselves, and with this package we can begin to say we enjoy you also.”

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The packages will be utilised as element of the organizations Midnight Mission for Homeless Veterans, an revolutionary outreach service that has scores of volunteers going out just before dawn to places with high volumes of veteran homelessness to offer them with emergency supplies and access to VA health-related help. Some packages were right away delivered to the St. Bridget Assistance Center, a regional meals pantry that offers solutions to the citys homeless population.

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In addition, the care packages will be used for the duration of the organizations Stand Down for Homeless Veterans later this fall, which is a 1 day occasion that hyperlinks homeless veterans to food, clothing, legal help, haircuts, and emergency medical aid.

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