Help Others Rise Above

Fellow State Employees:

Every day each of us in our roles as public servants across the broad spectrum of state government provide important, even critical services to the public. Whether we are maintaining our roads and rails, providing health care, keeping our citizenry safe, protecting our natural environment, or educating our children, and so much more, each of us is doing our part in helping New Jersey be such a great place to live and work.

In addition to our roles in public service, many of us are active members of our own communities outside the workplace in so many ways, like coaching youth sports teams, participating in a park cleanup, volunteering to serve meals at a food pantry, coat drives for the less unfortunate, or assisting at the local animal shelter.

And while we recognize and applaud such selflessness, we know for many of us, there is always more we can do!

The perfect vehicle for that arrives again this September, when we have the extraordinary opportunity to improve our world by donating to the 2024 New Jersey Employees Charitable Campaign. 

Over 680 registered charities employees can choose from, offer a wide variety of programs and services, designed to strengthen health and human services – from lending a helping hand to disabled children and adults to providing housing for the homeless – while also supporting an equally wide array of worthy causes - like improving our natural environment or protecting against domestic violence and human trafficking.

Now in its 39^th year, the New Jersey Employees Charitable Campaign has raised over $52 million to help support and grow the work of so many incredible charities.

That’s a testament to how all of us pitching in together for as little as $2 a pay period, or even less than the price of a cup of coffee, can make a tremendous difference. That $1 per week can buy 40 pounds of school supplies for needy children around the corner or in remote corners of the world. For those who can afford it, a gift of $10 per pay period could provide workforce readiness skills for an unemployed parent or feed 300 rescued animals.