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With your support, hope can continue to live here.

We are grateful to all those who support us so generously!

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The pregnant and parenting women and their children who come to CGE are searching for hope. Hope for a life that isn’t controlled by substance use, to overcome the trauma from their past, to bond with their children. Hope to live a life that everyone deserves. With your support, we can continue to provide hope and healing. CGE relies on the generosity of individuals, foundations, and corporations to fund our programs within our annual budget.

Make a Financial Gift

When you make a donation to CGE, you’re contributing towards creating a path to healing for those who come to us for care.

Champions of Hope

By donating a specific amount on a recurring monthly or yearly basis, a Champion of Hope helps provide a consistent source of funding that can be used to support the care our clients receive.

Legacy Giving

What better legacy is there than giving someone hope for their future? Enhance your impact through exploring planned gift opportunities.

Baby Bottle Brigade

Volunteers purchase baby bottles (Dollar Store) to collect spare change from family members, companies, businesses, schools, houses of worship, and all who want to participate. Once your bottles are filled, bring them to your bank to be counted.   Then drop off your check to 19B Dellwood Lane, Somerset, NJ — and visit CGE to see firsthand how your donations help support our programs.

Wish List

If you prefer to show your support by purchasing items that are an immediate need, we have a wish list on Amazon that we update on a regular basis. We also post any urgent requests on Facebook.

Volunteer

Whether it’s help sprucing things up or a home-cooked meal for our women and children, donations of time and talent are always needed and appreciated.

You can make our critical work possible.

Supporting CGE today will create tomorrows filled with possibility. Imagine the hope you will give a woman when she overcomes her substance use disorder, learns to believe in herself and has the tools she needs to be the mother she always dreamed she could be. Not only will you help her turn her life around you will also be giving her child the priceless gift of a future filled with love and stability.

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Make a Financial Gift

Help us break the cycle of substance use, trauma and homelessness.

Your gift to CGE will help us continue to provide the enhanced levels of care that every individual in need of our services deserves. With your generous contribution, we can continue to equip the men, women and children we serve with the resources and support they need not just to be well — but to thrive.

See what your contributions can do

Your gift today supports ongoing safe recovery and healing.

Your Contribution

Donation

Funds 1 month of nurturing on-site care for a child at Katy’s Place

$750

Funds 1 day of life-changing residential programming for one mother and her child

$500

Funds 2 hours of one-to-one client-centered tele-health counseling

$250

Funds 1 hour of parent-infant mental health counseling for a mom and her child(ren)

$125

Funds 1 week of nutritional meals for one family

$100

Funds 1 virtual activity (Treasure Hunt/Escape Room) for adolescent clients

$75

Funds 1 Family Movie Night plus refreshments for adult residential families

$50

Contribution

Donation

Funds 1 month of nurturing on-site care for a child at Katy’s Place

$750

Funds 1 day of life-changing residential programming for one mother and her child

$500

Funds 2 hours of one-to-one client-centered tele-health counseling

$250

Funds 1 hour of parent-infant mental health counseling for a mom and her child(ren)

$125

Funds 1 week of nutritional meals for one family

$100

Funds 1 virtual activity (Treasure Hunt/Escape Room) for adolescent clients

$75

Funds 1 Family Movie Night plus refreshments for adult residential families

$50

CHAMPIONS OF HOPE

Help ensure that hope and help will always be here for those who need it.

Become a Champion of Hope by donating any amount of your choosing on a recurring monthly or yearly basis.

Another thing to consider when donating is to check with your employer to see if your company participates in a matching gift program. It’s an excellent way to add to your original contribution.

How to become a Champion

Champions of Hope:

Beth and Gerard Altonji
Veronica Bannon
John and Joyce Buffato
Margaret A. Clancy
The Ferdinando Family
Vanessa Flewellen
Sarah and Billy Gouveia
Ron and Barbara Heck
Thomas and Karen Kurtz
John F. McCullagh
Linda Misuraca
Mindy Morris
Michael and Helen Schuler
Michael and Maureen Stevens
Linda VanDerveer
Champion of Hope

Champion of Hope

Donations that are made on a recurring monthly or yearly basis are essential to support our mission’s greatest needs. As a Champion of Hope, you’ll help make it possible for individuals engaged with The Center to find a safe place, safe presence and safe path on their journey to a life of hope and promise.

Become a Champion of Hope

Veronica Finlay

Director of Development
Phone:
+1 (732) 247-7003 ext.356

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    Planned & Legacy Giving

    A planned gift, or legacy gift, allows donors to create a lasting impact on future generations while often providing financial, tax, or estate-planning benefits for themselves and their loved ones. By including The Center for Great Expectations in your estate plans, donors can support life-changing programs for women, children, and families long into the future, ensuring that their values and generosity continue to make a difference for years to come.

    Imagine how many lives you’ll transform if you participate in our Legacy and Planned Giving Program: Mothers and children will be provided an opportunity for a better future. Homeless families will be provided with a safe place to live.

    There are multiple ways to participate in planned giving. Call or come speak with us confidentially about your thoughts and learn more about how we can connect them to CGE’s current and future needs.

    We also recommend you speak to your financial advisor to determine what’s best suited to your personal circumstances.

    Gifts of cash combined with other planned giving options makes a transformative gift possible.

    A gift of appreciated stock provides support to CGE, and avoidance of capital gains tax for you. Kindly reach out to Veronica Finlay (above), who can provide you with procedural details about making a securities transfer.

    Naming CGE as the beneficiary of all or a portion of a life insurance policy is a great way to impact our mission.

    By adding CGE to your will, or to a new codicil, you can impact CGE in the future. Your support can be a specific dollar amount, a percentage of your estate, or the remainder of your estate after providing for family or loved ones. CGE can provide you with options for your consideration, as well as the required language to ensure your desires are met. Your attorney can assist with ways to remember CGE in your will, while ensuring that your loved ones or other intentions are taken care of.

    A charitable gift annuity is a way you can make a gift to CGE and receive fixed payments for life in return. The payments can begin immediately or deferred to a future date you choose.

    You can indicate CGE as a full or partial beneficiary of a retirement fund such as a 401K.

    Start a Baby Bottle Brigade!

    You don’t need a certain number of people, and there’s no age requirement; anyone can make a difference. Whether you begin with family, friends, coworkers, a parish group, or your community, you can start a Baby Bottle Brigade anytime.

    For more information, contact Noreen Whittemore, Director of Community Relations at +1 (732) 247-7003 ext.325
    Wishlist

    Help us meet the ongoing needs of our CGE families.

    The majority of Women and children entering a CGE program arrive with little or no possessions. We appreciate any new donations that can help us satisfy their basic needs. From diapers and wipes, laundry soap, towels and personal care items, we provide everything they need while they reside at CGE.

    Visit our Facebook page and Amazon page for a current list of needs.

    Facebook Wishlist Amazon Wishlist
    For more information, contact our In-Kind Coordinator, Pat Sommero, at (732) 247-7003 ext.311 or psommero@cge-nj.org
    Volunteer

    You have skills – We invite you to share them with us!

    The passion and generosity of volunteers make a lasting impact on the individuals and families served by The Center for Great Expectations. From painting and organizing to childcare, planting, meals, and more, every act of service helps strengthen our community. We are deeply grateful for the time, talents, and compassion shared by corporate teams, congregations, community groups, and individual volunteers who help make our mission possible each day