By Jeff Friedman
Editor’s Note: This week, Jeff Friedman, founder and CEO of Livingston Philanthropies, Inc. (LPI), explains in his own words how distribution partnerships allow the organization to meet its goals.
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Some of our most plentiful deliveries to Newark distribution partners have come from local partnerships. This week, for the fourth time, LPI’s growing partnership with ECLC Chatham School yielded some 250 diapering kits prepared by their talented students.
Before the pandemic, diapers were not affordable for families living below the poverty line. Now with inflation…forget about it. Let’s put lotion and wipes in the same category. That’s why ECLC’s weighty donation was just so important and time-sensitive. The kits were delivered by Livingston volunteers to Newark Emergency Services For Families (NESF) and the Willing Heart Community Care Center (WHCCC) several days after receiving them.
Here at LPI, we request new and gently used family clothing on hangers or neatly folded into bags, toiletries of all sizes, new cosmetics, diapers, wipes, lotion and more.
Please send me an email at [email protected] for my Livingston drop-off address. Our busy Living-ston neighbors can also empower LPI volunteers to handle the shopping for them with their generous donations.
Contributions are easy at njhomeless.org or on PayPal at paypal.me/njhomeless. A personal PayPal account is not needed.
Photo: Lifelong Livingston resident and ECLC Chatham School staffer Michele Florio-Campisi delivered some 250 student-created diapering kits to Livingston Philanthropies, Inc. (LPI) founder Jeff Friedman. Florio-Campisi originated the LPI/ECLC partnership model, which then grew organically and exponentially under the leadership and support of ECLC teachers and specialists.
