Thank you to everyone who supported Halo Ball 2024!
About Our Beneficiaries
Receiving the Impact Grant:
With a focus on skill development, real-world job experience, and trauma-informed care, HOPEWORKS propels young adults into long-term living wage careers that put them on the path for healing and financial stability.
Since the organization was founded in 2000, thousands of Hopeworks trainees have become connected to life-changing opportunities where their growing technology skills go to work for enterprising businesses within the community. In 2022-2023, Hopeworks placed over 100 young adults in living wage jobs, paying an average salary of $44,000 per year, generating over $4.4 million dollars in additional wages. Those numbers mean real change–homes bought and families supported.
Funds raised through Halo Ball 2024 will support Hopeworks growth by providing training stipends, allowing more young adults to start on a path to transforming their lives. Each $1,950 raised will cover stipends to support one young adult through the training and into a paid internship, including technology, training, career readiness coaching, and barrier reduction support (mental health, food insecurity, and housing).
Receiving the Seed Grant:
PAWS HEALING HEROES provides service dogs to Veterans in need. These service dogs are primarily found in rescue shelters and then entered into a training program. The training program enables them to be certified to work with Veterans depending on the needs they have. The average cost to rescue, train, and present a service dog to a Veteran is $4,000 - $11,000.
Halo Award Winners!
Lori is the Director of Wildlife Rehabilitation at Woodford Cedar Run Wildlife Refuge in Medford, NJ. Lori began her time at Cedar Run in 2007 as a volunteer and became Director in December 2012 after working as part-time staff for a number of years. Lori holds state and federal licenses to rehabilitate mammal and avian species and is a Certified Wildlife Rehabilitator™ by the International Wildlife Rehabilitation Council. She oversees the care of over 6,000 injured and orphaned wildlife patients yearly, as well as over 50 permanent resident Wildlife Ambassadors at Cedar Run. Following her graduate studies, Lori worked for nine years in human genetic testing laboratories before becoming a full-time member of the Cedar Run staff. She has completed internships at the Pinelands Institute of Rutger’s University and at the Philadelphia Zoo under their Education program working with a variety of reptiles. Lori also spent two months in South Africa in 2011 volunteering at a wildlife rehabilitation clinic near Durban. Lori has been an active board member of the New Jersey Association of Wildlife Rehabilitators since January 2014 and has served as Secretary since January 2015.
As the busiest Wildlife Hospital in the Tri-state area, Lori and her team work tirelessly to release as many patients as possible back to the wild and to continuously improve their work through continuing education and facility improvements.
New Jersey American Water, a subsidiary of American Water, is the largest investor-owned water utility in the state, providing high-quality and reliable water and wastewater services to approximately 2.8 million people in 190 communities in 18 counties. Over 850 highly skilled professionals carry out the company’s foremost responsibility of providing safe and reliable water and wastewater service to our customers.
We have long believed in the importance of being a good corporate citizen, neighbor and steward of the environment. New Jersey American Water focuses community giving in four key areas: water and the environment; water and healthy living; environmental education; and community sustainability. In 2022, we provided more than $1.5 million in charitable contributions, grants, sponsorships and programming support to more than 80 organizations in the communities we serve. Additionally, New Jersey American Water’s Workforce Development Programs connect young adults with education, exposure and transformative career opportunities within underserved communities where we do business. Programs currently include the Water Utility Pipeline (Water UP!) training program and a GIS workforce program with Hopeworks
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