Our Community is our members, our immediate neighbors, the wider community including those we serve through our charitable outreach. The Men’s Club resumed the Charity Golf Outing after a 2 year Covid-generated hiatus. Next outing information will be listed on the Events page and in the Posts sidebar.
Our Charitable Outreach
Donations from fiscal 2022-2023 In-Person Events
Able to restore in-person events, the Men’s Club restarted the ‘Jersey’ Joe Pavlichko Memorial Golf Outing in August 2022 after a 2-year covid-related shutdown. As a result, contributions of nearly $5,000 were distributed. Recipients include: for special needs children, Monroe Special Sports, Monroe Special Strides, Children’s Voice Foundation; Breast Cancer funding through the Stonebridge Women’s Club; Prostate Cancer funding through the American Cancer Society; Lyon’s/Menlo Park Veteran’s Homes aimed at the needs of the individual veterans; Ronald McDonald House; Scholarships for 1 male and 1 female Monroe High School Senior. Both Special Sports and Special Strides received checks at the November 2022 membership meeting and updated the membership on their good works..
In January 2024, Stonebridge Men’s Club President sent a letter of thanks to our Members for supporting the club’s charitable events. We concentrate on local community organizations who do not house the structure for wide scale fund raising. Jan 2024 Thank You to Club Members
Thanks from 2022-2023
- Monroe Senior Services Thanks for Food Pantry, Dec 2023 Food Pantry Thank You
- Amer Cancer Breast Cancer focus, Feb 2023 Amer Cancer Society Thanks
- Local Ronald McDonald House Appreciation, Jan 2023 Ronald McDonald Thank You
From our Membership
These received:
- Monroe Food Pantry, donations totaling $2250 during the pandemic.
- Monroe High School, $1000: $500 each, Boy and Girl graduating Seniors
- NJ Veterans Homes, Monroe, October 2019, $1000.
- NJ Veterans Home Menlo Park, June 2020, $250
- Stonebridge Nurses Office: Executive Chair and File Cabinet, January 2020
Recognizing the 24 hour per day Nurses contribution to the Stonebridge community, our club presented a plague, on display in the nurses office since March 2022. Eased Covid restriction allowed Charge Nurse Ruth Balut to accept the plaque.
From our Fundraising:
Charity Recipients from the Mens Club Events
Charitable Organizations Receiving Donations (since FY 2016)
Donations have totaled $116,000 since 2013.
Adler Aphasia Center
Our Mission is to enrich the lives of people with Aphasia, their families, and communities. Aphasia is a language disorder resulting from brain injury (such as stroke, brain tumor, accident, or infection). Aphasia can affect the ability to speak, understand, read and write, but does not affect intellect.
Childrens Hemiplegia & Stroke Assoc (CHASA)
Helping Kids with Hemiplegia. CHASA exists to improve the quality of life for children and families affected by hemiparesis or hemiplegic cerebral palsy due to pediatric stroke or a variety of other conditions. CHASA helps by providing educational information, opportunities for online participation.
Childrens Specialized Hospital Foundation
Children’s Specialized Hospital is the nation’s leading provider of inpatient and outpatient care for children from birth to 21 years of age facing special health challenges — from chronic illnesses and complex physical disabilities like brain and spinal cord injuries, to developmental and behavioral issues like autism and mental health.
Childrens Voice Foundation
Learn about neurological impairments and the effects on our children. Children with neurological impairments can do more than for which they are given credit! CVF can help a child who cannot speak to communicate, a child who cannot walk to move.
Deborah Hospital Foundation
Incorporated in 1974, Deborah Hospital Foundation raises funds for Deborah Heart and Lung Center. Deborah is a world renowned heart, lung, and vascular specialty care hospital located in Browns
Mills (Burlington County), NJ. Individuals, corporations, foundations and membership organizations support its life-saving care. It is the only hospital foundation in New Jersey to be awarded a 4-STAR rating from Charity Navigator,
Kortney Rose
Vision: To live in a world where pediatric brain tumors do not define a child’s life. Mission: To eradicate pediatric brain tumors by supporting the world’s most promising, collaborative research
Monroe Special Sports
Monroe Special Sports is a 501(c) (3) public charity that is located in Monroe Township, NJ. We are a group of enthusiastic parents, family, friends and community members that provide a place for Monroe Twp. special needs athletes to play and socialize.
Monroe Special Strides
Special Strides is a non-profit organization devoted to improving the lives of individuals with special needs. With a unique combination of therapy, horses, and the natural environment, individuals achieve goals appropriate for therapy, recreation, and education.
The Institute for Children Cancer & Blood Disorder (DBA) Embrace Kids Foundation
Embrace Kids Foundation exists to lighten the burden, maintain normalcy and improve the quality of life for families whose children are facing cancer, sickle cell and other serious health challenges. Embrace Kids addresses the spiritual, emotional and financial needs of patient families in the New Jersey/New York City metropolitan area.
Ronald McDonald House of Central and Northern NJ
Children undergoing critical care require parents close for comfort and reassurance. RMH provides housing and hospital-based rooms for a family to stay while a child is undergoing hospital care.
Wounded Warriors
Every warrior has a next mission. We know that the transition to civilian life is a journey. And for every warrior, family member, and caregiver, that journey looks different.
We are here for their first step, and each step that follows. Because we believe that every warrior should have a positive future to look forward to. There’s always another goal to achieve, another mission to discover. We are their partner in that mission.
We Appreciate Thanks from Charitable Recipients
The Men’s Club is pleased to display thank you letters from recipients of our donations. Just click the links to witness these expressions of appreciation. The link 4 ThankYou Letters groups 4 letters from 2020. The Monroe Food Pantry had received particular attention in face of extra needs generated by the covid epidemic. And, of course, we always want to honor our veterans who have sacrificed for us. We continued our charitable outreach in the face of covid restrictions that had handicapped our fund raising events, but not our will.
SeniorCenter Hoeffel Thanks Food Pantry SMC Thanks Food Pantry Hoeffel Thanks
Veterans Admin SMC Thanks Ronald McDonald Thanks Food Pantry $1500