by rachel | Apr 15, 2021 | National Volunteer Week, Stories, Volunteer Heroes
Donna has been a dedicated volunteer with Caregiver Volunteers for over 18 years! When Superstorm Sandy hit….Donna agreed to coordinate our online shopping program and hasn’t stopped since! She has been instrumental in getting this program off the ground....
by rachel | Apr 15, 2021 | National Volunteer Week, Stories, Volunteer Heroes
What would we do without Grace Otto Kurak… we hope we never have to find out! Grace trained with Caregiver Volunteers on November 16, 2017 and has been a dedicated volunteer ever since. Every time the Caregiver’s staff calls Grace, the phrase...
by rachel | Apr 15, 2021 | National Volunteer Week, Stories, Volunteer Heroes
When Pat joined Caregiver Volunteers of Central Jersey in 1999, she had recently retired as a social worker and counselor; she was hoping to find a volunteer opportunity in the field she loved so much. Pat says she has always felt blessed in so many ways and was...
by cvcj-editor | May 9, 2018 | Caregiver Couples, Stories
“Catherine, Mike needs a date for a party on New Year’s Eve. Will you go with him?” her friend Annette asked. “Sure, why not?” After all, they were all friends, right? They were really a group, Annette’s brother, Franny, Mike, Joe, and Bob....
by cvcj-editor | Apr 26, 2018 | Caregiver Couples, Stories
“When are you taking me to dinner?” was the teasing question Gloria would ask Elton whenever she ran into her friend from her youth. It took Elton awhile to bite. Gloria and Elton had a long history, going all the way back to middle school when Elton had moved to...
by cvcj-editor | Apr 11, 2018 | Caregiver Couples, Stories
Matchmaker, Matchmaker,Make me a match,Find me a find,Catch me a catch.(from Fiddler on the Roof) That might have been Gregory Cinque’s earworm as he consulted Compatibility Plus in the winter of 1985. Greg, 45 and a career man, wanted to meet a woman. He wasn’t...
