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Outreach & Service ProjectsSTS is dedicated to preparing our students, your children, for their journey into higher education and their future. Outreach and Service is an important part of what they grow to love and take with them. #theSTSdifference
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2024-2025 Service ProjectsJanuary 2025 / #CSW2025 and #theSTSdifference...
- STS students, Faculty and Staff wore blue in support of the Troopers United Foundation. We gathered $485.00 in donations for The Troopers United Foundation! TUF was created by dedicated NJ State Police Troopers to be of assistance to any and all Troopers, Law Enforcement Officers, First Responders, and their respective families, in the event of a tragedy or illness. Visit troopersunited.org to learn more about TUF!
- 100-Bag Challenge! Over 100 bags of groceries, delivered by Roxbury's Finest, to Roxbury Social Services Food Pantry. STS students, faculty and staff supported our local community via these generous donations.
- STS students, Faculty and Staff wore “Red, White and Blue”, held a flag-raising ceremony with the help of our Scouts! We gathered $608.00 for the Tunnel to Towers Foundation. Visit t2t.org to learn more!
December 2024-January 2025 / STS Mitten Tree
STS Families and students came together to decorate the "STS Mitten Tree" which facilitated the donation of five shopping bags filled with new hats, gloves, and scarves to Catholic Charities Hope House in Dover, NJ.October-November 2024 / Cross Catholic Outreach's Box of Joy®A #BoxOfJoy is a Christmas “shoe box”, donated and filled with toys, clothing, school supplies, hygiene items, drawings, photos, notes... Each gift includes a rosary and The Story of Jesus, and may be the only Christmas gift children in developing countries are blessed to receive.
Cross Catholic Outreach’s Box of Joy® provides schools, parishes, organizations, and families with an inspiring opportunity to send gifts to Haiti, Guatemala and other developing countries.
STS students and families put together 162 boxes THIS year! As a northern NJ drop-off location serving various Ministries, 38 Shippers (over 680 Boxes of Joy) were collected and shipped out from STS!
September 2024 / Annual Project Grad “Go Gold” Awareness Day
The Class of 2025’s first Service Project, STS students, faculty and staff wore gold! This Service Project collected $400.00 in donations for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital! Over $20,000 has been donated over the years to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, between our annual Math-A-Thon and Project Graduation. -
Over the years...
Our students participate in many outreach and service programs to assist individuals and communities in need. Here are some of the organizations and communities that St. Therese School is honored to have helped:
- Backpacks for Teachers: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, LA
- Baskets of Hope
- Bicycles for Vietnam
- Birth Haven, Newton, NJ
- Bridges Outreach, Inc., Summit, NJ
- Building water systems in El Salvador
- Dunlow Elementary School Library Project, Dunlow, WV
- Eleventh Hour Rescue, Randolph, NJ
- Eva’s Village, Paterson, NJ
- Hope House, Dover, NJ
- Katie’s House, Newton, NJ: Toy Drive for St. Joseph’s Children’s Hospital Pediatric Oncology, Paterson, NJ
- Katie’s House, Newton, NJ: Buddy Packs for Foster Care Children
- Kindness for Christopher
- Missionary Childhood Association: Advent Collection
- OAR Organization for Autism Research
- Pinwheels for Peace
- Police Unity Tour
- Quarters for Kenya
- Roxbury Food Pantry/Social Services
- Samaritan’s Purse: Operation Christmas Child
- Scholastic Pajama Drive
- Shoes for Haiti
- St. Hubert’s Animal Shelter
- St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital: Math-a-Thon
- The American Heart Association: Jump Rope for Heart
- Troopers United
- United Nations Foundation: Nothing But Nets
- World Down Syndrome Day via: Rock the 21 and The Candle Lighters
- Wounded Warrior Project