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180, Turning Lives Around
- Dedicated to ending domestic violence and sexual assault in Monmouth County.
Website: www.180nj.org
Affordable Housing Alliance
- The Alliance develops and expands the availability of affordable housing for low to moderate income families and special needs groups for either rental or purchase. Also, provides information and referral services.
Website: www.housingall.com
Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders Association
- Enhance care and support for individuals, their families and caregivers and to eliminate Alzheimer's disease through the advancement of research.
Website: www.alznj.org
Aslan
- Aslan Youth Ministries is a year-round ministry serving the spiritual, physical and mental needs of disadvantaged youth at risk.
Website: www.aslanyouth.org
Big Brothers Big Sisters
- To make a positive difference in the lives of at risk children with a caring adult and to assist children in achieving their highest potential.
Website: www.bbbsmonmouth.org
Boys and Girls Club of Monmouth County
- School age youth program providing recreational and educational programs.
Website: www.bgcmonmouth.org
Cancer Care of New Jersey
- Cancer Care is a non-profit agency to help cancer patients, their families, and friends cope with the impact of cancer. Cancer Care is separate and apart from other cancer organizations.
Website: www.cancercare.org
Catholic Charities, Diocese of Trenton
- To improve the quality of life of individuals and families, especially the poor and venerable, through service, advocacy and community building
Website: www.catholicharities.org
Center for Vocational Rehabilitation
- To promote social independence, quality of life and maximum vocational potential for all persons with special needs.
Website: www.mcvr.org
CentraState Medical Center
- Our mission is to enhance the health and well being of our communities through the compassionate delivery of quality healthcare.
Website: www.centrastate.com
Cerebral Palsy Association of Middlesex County
- Dedicated to the provision of comprehensive, superior, multi-faceted programs of service to individuals with developmental and related disabilities
Website: www.cpamc.org
Child Assault Prevention of Monmouth County
- Dedicated to reducing children's vulnerability to abuse through the empowering concept that each child has the right to be safe, strong and free.
Website: www.njcap.org
Child Care Resources
- Child Care Resources invests in Monmouth County's children by empowering parents to make informed child care choices and providing quality resources and education to child care professionals.
- Website: www.ccsmc.org
Coastal Habitat for Humanity
- Through volunteer labor and donations of money and materials, Habitat builds and renovates simple, decent, and affordable houses to eliminate poverty housing and homelessness from the Jersey shore.
Website: www.coastalhabitat.org
Collier Youth Services
- Based on a philosophy of deep respect for the inherent worth of each individual, of regard for the environment and belief in the capacity for personal change. In each program, Collier strives to provide a place where these sacred beliefs are honored. Collier commits itself to forming relationships with people so that each person may experience a sense of belonging, dignity and hope.
Website: www.collierservices.org
Community Outreach Group
- Ten area churches incorporated under the Community Outreach Group, Inc. which sponsors The Calico Cat Thrift Shop, The Calico Cat Food Pantry & Cupboard as well as the Emergency Assistance Fund.
Consumer Advisory Council of the Disabled
- Providing services to and advocating for individuals with disabilities and their families and caregivers, with the goal of enhancing their physical and emotional well being
Website: www.cacodinc.com
Community YMCA
- To put positive principles into practice through programs that build a healthy spirit, mind and body for all.
Website: www.TheCommunityYMCA.org
Court Appointed Special Advocates of New Jersey
- Recruits, screens and trains volunteers to advocate on behalf of abused and neglected children who are in out-of-home placement.
Website: www.casaofmonmouth.org
CPC Behavioral Healthcare
- The mission of CPC Behavioral Healthcare is to prevent or treat disorders in the way people think, feel, learn and act. Our services increase skills and competencies and decrease problem behaviors.
Website: www.cpcbehavioral.org
Family & Children's Service
- We serve people at vulnerable times in their lives through education, intervention, care and counseling
Website: www.fcsmonmouth.org
Family Based Services Association of New Jersey
- To provide community based support services to children and families with emotional and behavioral challenges
Website: www.fbsanj.org
Family Promise
- Provide food, shelter and comprehensive services to homeless families in Monmouth County, while advocating innovative solutions to chronic homelessness
Website: www.ihn-of-mc.org
Family Resource Network
- Dedicated to offering individualso and their families with continuing needs the greatest opportunities, resources and services to support a full and happy life
Website: www.efnj.com
FoodBank of Monmouth and Ocean Counties
- The mission of the FoodBank is to feed as many hungry people as possible. We do this be collecting and distributing donated and surplus food to charities serving the immediate food needs of individuals, and also through programs that address the long-term causes of hunger.
Website: www.foodbankmoc.org
Freehold Area Open Door
- In order to affirm the God-given dignity of all individuals, Open Door seeks to aid all the greater Freehold area residents in need to achieve their goals of self-sufficiency
Website: www.freeholdareaopendoor.org
Girl Scouts of the Jersey Shore
- Girl Scouting builds girls of courage, confidence, and character, that make the world a better place
Website: www.mcgirlscouts.org
HABcore
- HABcore is a not-for-profit corporation serving Monmouth and adjacent counties in New Jersey. HABcore is devoted to providing permanent and transitional supportive housing in a family setting to low-income persons who are homeless, disabled or unable to care for themselves, and to affording them loves of dignity and meaning.
Website: www.habcore.org
Habitat for Humanity of Northeast Monmouth County
- Partner with low-income working families to construct or renovate decent affordable housing for ownership and to encourage people of means to support this critical endeavor
Website: www.monmouth.com/~habitat/
Hispanic Affairs and Resource Center of Monmouth County
- Dedicated to providing quality assistance to Latin-Americans and others by promoting self-sufficiency through personal and community development
Homing Corporation
- Spring House is dedicated to breaking the cycle of homelessness for women and their children.
Website: www.springhousenj.org
Interfaith Neighbors
- Provide rental subsidy to underprivileged persons, to provide meals either in a congregate setting or delivered to the home of people who are either elderly poor (senior citizens), infirm or seriously ill persons or those who are classified as impoverished, to encourage support and undertake construction, rehabilitation and operation of houses, shelters, homesteads and other facilities for underprivileged and homeless persons with low incomes and generally to support the needs of underprivileged persons.
Website: www.interfaithneighbors.org
Jewish Community Center of Greater Monmouth County
- The Jewish Community Center (JCC) is a dedicated, multi-faceted human service non-profit organization working for the total well-being of its members and the community. It is concerned with people of all races, creeds and economic levels.
Website: jccmonmouth.org
Jewish Family & Children's Service of Greater Monmouth County
- Jewish Family and Children's Service of Greater Monmouth County is a comprehensive, non-sectarian social service agency dedicated to improving the quality of life of families living in Monmouth County.
Website: www.jfcsmonmouth.org
LADACIN Network
- To provide education, therapeutic, social, residential, and support services for people with cerebral palsy and other physical disabilities
Website: www.ladacin.org
Literacy Volunteers of Monmouth County
- To promote increased literacy for adults in Monmouth County through the effective use of volunteers and in collaboration with individuals, groups and organizations desiring to foster increased literacy.
Website: www.lvmonmouthnj.org
Long Branch Concordance
- To find resources for people in need, fosters individual and family development, and creates partnerships for community well-being
Love In the Name of Christ
- To mobilize the church to transform lives and communities in the name of Christ, acting as a liaison to help people in need.
Website: www.loveincnj.org
Mental Health Association of Monmouth County
- To promote mental health and improve the care and treatment of children and adults with mental illness and their families through advocacy, education, research and services.
Website: www.mentalhealthmonmouth.org
Mercy Center
- Mercy Center is a private non-profit providing emergency services, Family Resource Center, Sisters Academy, mental health support and mentoring program for urban teens.
Website: www.mercycenternj.org
Monmouth Council, Boy Scouts of America
- A volunteer-led, professionally managed, private, not-for-profit, service agency providing program planning and support to more than 100 local organizations that charter 230 Scout units. Total membership served is 3,000 adult volunteers and 12,000 youth.
Website: www.monmouthbsa.org
Monmouth Day Care Center
- A private, non-profit, state licensed, accredited (by NAEYC), professionally staffed, child care center dedicated to the care of children ages two months to five years. The center combines principles of early childhood education with a warm homelike environment
Website: www.monmouthdaycare.org
Monmouth Neighborhood Housing
- Monmouth Neighborhood Housing is committed to assisting individuals and families in the transition from homelessness and dependence on society to self-sufficiency and permanent housing.
Website: www.mannahouseonline.com
National Multiple Sclerosis Society
- Dedicated to ending the devastating effects of multiple sclerosis
Website: www.nationalmssociety.org/njm
Neptune Emergency Assistance for Residents
- NEAR is an all volunteer corporation that works in conjunction with Neptune's welfare director to assist the working poor, who show need, but do not qualify for welfare. Our first area of concern and response has been with pharmaceutical assistance
New York Service for the Handicapped-Camp Oakhurst
- Camp Oakhurst is a 15 acre, wheelchair accessible, barrier free, short term residential facility for children and adults who are physically challenged.
Website: www.campchannel.com/campoakhurst
Novadebt
- To provide financial education to the public, including free housing and credit counseling services to families and individuals in need
Website: www.novadebt.org
Ocean-Monmouth Legal Services
- Ocean-Monmouth Legal Services, Inc. is a non-profit organization that handles civil matters for people on fixed/low incomes in Monmouth and Ocean Counties. We have two offices in Monmouth County and two in Ocean County.
Ocean's Harbor House
- Provides emergency shelter, counseling, prevention and crisis intervention services to runaway, homeless, abused, and at-risk youth.
Website: www.oceansharborhouse.org
Parker Family Health Center
- Provide free health care to low-income, uninsured Monmouth County residents.
Planned Parenthood of Central New Jersey
- PPCNJ is the leading provider of comprehensive reproductive health care and sexuality education in Monmouth and Middlesex counties. Over 30,000 individuals receive medical, counseling and educational services each year.
Website: www.ppcnj.org
Pleasant Valley Adult Day Center
- Committed to providing the frail elderly of our community with a safe, structured environment where they can socialize, receive health monitoring and enjoy the greatest possible quality of life while providing the senior's caregivers with relief from the strain or caring for someone who is chronically ill.
Prevention First
- Prevention First is a non-profit agency dedicated to strengthening the foundations of children and families by empowering them to successfully handle difficult, everyday life situations and extraordinary challenges such as violence and substance abuse.
Website: www.preventionfirst.net
Project Paul
- To serve people in need, especially the poor, in the towns of the Bayshore area of Monmouth County.
Website: www.projpaul.org
Providence Medical Center
- Improve the quality of life for underserved and unisured working-poor families in Monmouth County by providing access to free medical care within an environment of dignity and cultural competence
Red Bank Regional Source Foundation
- A comprehensive, collaborative school based program for students and families.
Website: www.redbankregional.k12.nj.us/RBRWeb/Sourcemain.html
Regional Perinatal Consortium of Monmouth & Ocean Counties
- Committed to improving the health of pregnant women and their children in Monmouth and Ocean counties through the collaborative efforts of existing, changing and future institutions, Regional Perinatal Centers, health care providers from many disciplines,
Website: www.rpcmoc.org
SEARCH Day Program
- SEARCH is a multi-service agency that specializes in providing services to the individual with autism from preschool through adulthood. These services are offered via ten month and extended school year programs at our day school, adult activities program.
Senior Citizens Activities Network
- Enrich the lives of individuals over the age of 50 by promoting, sponsoring and coordinating educational programs which maintain and enhance the cultural, physical and intellectual quality of life for this population, with a focus on arts, humanities, technology and the promotion of good health.
Website: www.scannj.com
The Arc of Monmouth
- To improve the lives of persons with intellectual and developmental disabilities and their families. This is accomplished through advocacy, services and supports, cooperation with community partners and community education. The Arc of Monmouth also works to prevent the causes and effects of intellectual and developmental disabilities.
Website: www.arcofmonmouth.org
The Center in Asbury Park
- Providing support services for people living with HIV/AIDS and their caregivers.
Website: www.thecenterinap.com
The Kitchen at St. Mark's
- To alleviate hunger in the Keansburg local area.
Valerie Fund
- The Valerie Fund's mission is to help provide financial support for the comprehensive medical care of children with cancer and blood disorders.
www.thevaleriefund.org
Visiting Nurse Association of Central Jersey
- Voluntary, nonprofit organization dedicated to the promotion, restoration, and maintenance of the health status of individuals and the community.
Website: www.vnacj.org
Western Monmouth Habitat for Humanity
- Our mission is to build more than houses - It is to improve our community by building lives. We accomplish this through a partnership with God and the members of our community, by providing families, in cooperation with our volunteers, the opportunity to obtain decent, affordable housing.
Website: www.westmonhabitat.org
YMCA of Western Monmouth County
- The YMCA of Western Monmouth County is a mission driven, value based, non-profit organization that has served the communities of Western Monmouth County for close to 100 years
Website: www.ymcanj.org
Give Now
Invest in your community. Give to United Way of Monmouth County. UWMC is working to advance the common good by focusing on education, income and health. These are the building blocks for a good life - a quality education that leads to a stable job, enough income to support a family through retirement, and good health.
2-1-1

For help with a problem or to help others, dial 2-1-1, UWMC's free and confidential community service line, 24 hours a day or visit the NJ 2-1-1 website www.nj211.org and search their online database.
Born Learning
Want to find out how young children learn? Or get ideas for using everyday activities as learning moments? Born Learning helps parents, grandparents and caregivers enrich early learning.
Learn more about the UWMC Born Learning program
Five Ways You Can Live United
1. Read to children in your family, at your library, or with a local non-profit engaged in child care or literacy
2. Bring a child in your life to a bank to have a tour and open up a savings account.
3. Volunteer to prepare tax returns for low-income families
4. Buy pedometers for your friends and have a fun competition for who can walk the most steps.
5. Purchase personal care items such as deodorant, toothbrushes and soap and drop them off at the local homeless shelter






