Montclair Emergency Services for the Homeless (MESH) helps feed and shelter homeless individuals throughout Montclair and surrounding areas. For 12 years, an organization has been working tirelessly in Montclair on a problem residents think little about – homelessness. Montclair Emergency Services for the Homeless, or MESH, was created in 2005 by Reverend Canon Wade Renn. […]
90 kids with special needs enjoyed a day of surfing, sun and tacos at Asbury Park, courtesy of the Best Day Foundation’s New Jersey Chapter. 90 kids with special needs and their families joined 300 volunteers at the 8th Avenue Beach in Asbury Park, New Jersey on Saturday July 22nd and Sunday July 23rd […]
Fall in love with the 2017 Montclair Film Festival as they feature a unique and fantastic African American programming among many other films.
MFF will be screening a historical film of African Americans. As the Montclair Film Festival will be screening a wide range of genres in their 2017 festival, be sure to take a look at their phenomenal African American programming. Their centerpiece film, Tell Them We Are Rising, is the story of historically black colleges in […]
UMBA generates essential relationships between businesses and promotes town relations in the thriving hub of Upper Montclair.
Join UMBA to help your business stay connected in Upper Montclair. The Upper Montclair Business Association (UMBA) started as a coalition of businesses to collaborate with the town. Before UMBA, there was no way to gather individual business’s perspectives and input. Its start gave the town’s individual businesses, property owners and merchants a direct means of […]
Join the movement, Move for Hunger, by bringing in your donations of food to Montclair's Prominent Properties Sotheby's International Realty.
Interested in making a difference? Support the Move for Hunger with Montclair’s Prominent Properties International Realty. Over one million people in New Jersey, including one in six children, are food insecure. Through the wholesome hearts of companies such as Prominent Properties Sotheby’s International Realty and Move For Hunger, they continue to help the nearly 50 […]
If you are in need of a hot and nutritious meal, stop by Toni’s Kitchen in Montclair.
Toni’s Kitchen in St. Luke’s Episcopal Church helps out the community. Located at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church on Fullerton Avenue, Toni’s Kitchen offers a wide variety of services to its guests, including health and wellness programs, skills training opportunities, connections to supportive services and – best of all – nutritious meals. Every Thursday, Friday and […]
Members of the Essex County community can now be provided with Mobile Meals of Essex.
Participate in Mobile Meals by Chrill Care, Inc. Chrill Care, Inc., a not-for-profit home-care and nutrition company serving Essex County since 1948, now offers a food delivery service called Mobile Meals. Mobile Meals is a weekday delivery service provided to those who are unable to leave their homes. Mobile Meals delivers hot meals to those […]
The Rotary Club of Montclair has helped people for over 90 years.
Leaders are born with the Rotary Club of Montclair. Rotary International is a worldwide volunteer charitable organization. This group’s goal is to encourage and foster the ideal of service as a basis of worthy enterprise. Rotary clubs harness passionate individuals to exchange ideas, build relationships and take responsible action. The organization is a part of […]
Being a volunteer in Montclair, such as helping out at the Montclair Film Festival, can be such a rewarding experience that can not be explained.
Volunteer in Montclair. It is that time of year in Montclair when festivals are in full bloom all around town. We have the Montclair Film Festival, the Montclair African American Heritage Parade & Festival and The Montclair Jazz Festival sponsored by Jazz House Kids. Three major festivals in a town of 38,000 residents that have garnered […]
The rose not even Hurricane Katrina could wipe out blooms at the Brookdale Park Rose Garden.
Brookdale Park Rose Garden determines the sweetest-smelling rose. The Brookdale Park Rose Garden (BPRG) has planted a new rose bush that tells an especially inspiring story: the Katrina Survivor Rose. This is just one of the 120 different rose varieties rooted in the garden that packs over 700 roses altogether. BPRG’s upkeep is the result of a […]