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Family Promise is blessed to have many dedicated supporters, some big, some small.  Some, like the gentleman in the story below, want to remain anonymous. One evening this month, a nicely dressed gentleman in his late twenties arrived at the loading dock of the...

Sometimes, success takes time.  And so it was for Paula*, a mother who, with her two children, experienced homelessness back in 2013.  Hardworking and tenacious, the young mother applied for many better paying jobs only to be turned down when the results of the...

On March 1, 2023, we celebrated the 32nd anniversary of the Walk-In Dinner Program. On that date in 1991, Family Promise (then the IRF) began providing free hot dinners in Hackensack to anyone in the community who needed one.  For 19 years, we distributed dinners from...

Mark your calendars! The 24th Annual Family Promise Golf Outing will be held on Monday, June 5th at the Edgewood Country Club in River Vale, NJ. Our guests will enjoy an afternoon featuring 18 holes of golf, premium refreshments served right on the course, a Hole in...

If you’ve called Family Promise of Bergen County over the past nine months, you probably know the sound of the fresh, friendly voice at the other end of the line. That is Office Administrator Emily Marques. In an age of impenetrable social service agency...

Lace up your sneakers and step into spring - the Family Promise Hike for Hope is celebrating its 30th anniversary! We are thrilled to announce that for the first time since 2019, the event will be returning to a fully in-person format. Please join us on Sunday, May...

There are only a couple of weeks left to purchase tickets for this year’s Family Promise Super 50/50 Raffle! Don’t miss your chance to win up to $25,000 and support Family Promise of Bergen County’s life-changing programs when our drawing is held on Friday, March 31....

At Family Promise, we have two small cowbells on top of the college size refrigerator out in the hallway.  Leftover from a past event, these bells sat unused in a cabinet until we realized that the incremental changes we were fostering in the families in our programs...

In December 2020, during the height of the pandemic, Norm Forsyth of the Hackensack Golf Club became aware of the Family Promise Walk-in Dinner Program. The club had some extra food at that time that they wanted to donate.  Upon learning about the daily need for meals...

Reliable transportation is a necessity for all of us, but can be life changing for a formerly homeless family. This was recently the case for one of our families, a mother with two young children ages 5 and 3. Dominique was spending approximately $400 a week on Uber...

Family Promise is incredibly fortunate to have many supporters and friends, and Temple Israel of Ridgewood has been counted among them for many years. This past Christmas of 2022, the Temple was asked if they could “help” provide the meal at the Walk-in Dinner. Not...

At this time of the year, it’s right to spend time to reflect on all we have, and how we have used those resources to help others.  With Thanksgiving soon to come, I want to talk about just some of what has affected me this year. We have accomplished a lot this year...