Teams Work For Good is proud to support Smiles From Kara, who works to provide opportunities to underprivileged/special needs children in Camden County & the surrounding areas! We enjoyed meeting with them at our January organization meeting to provide financial support for their mission with money raised from our 2nd annual Turkey Trot on Thanksgiving morning.
Our Thanksgiving morning Turkey Trots bring people together for an early morning 5K run as well as a fun run and the proceeds that we raise support charities we are passionate about.
In 2018 we hosted our first turkey trot which was so much fun and used the money raised from the event to purchase sneakers for Kids Alley, an organization that runs an after school program for students in the Camden School District.
Additionally, a few months ago Teams Work For Good organized our second annual Thanksgiving morning turkey trot. The 2019 run raised over $12,000 which we directed to support the success of some great service organizations including Smiles From Kara, Kids Alley, and the Food Bank of South Jersey. Over the two runs we have hosted, many participants and supporters from near and far have joined us in our efforts, and for that we are extremely grateful.
For the last few years Teams Work For Good has actively supported the efforts of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. The CF Foundation is very close to our hearts as we have supported numerous people, friends, and relatives with CF.
A few months ago in November 2019, six of our organizations founding member girls and two of our board members attended the Breath of Life Gala in Philadelphia, PA, in which we were the valet sponsors contributing $7,500 to this years event and our continued fight for a cure.
The event was an amazing, eye-opening experience. We met and heard from some of the remarkable and courageous people who continue to fight this disease and celebrate with them our continued strides forward with the recent introduction of Trikafta, a newly approved breakthrough therapy. We also had the wonderful opportunity to meet members of the larger community of CF supporters and community leaders who continue to inspire each us. We are pictured below with event honoree, business and community leader and role model, Jane Scaccetti who we had the pleasure to meet and speak with at the event.
Our annual signature fundraising event is generously supported by many committed individuals, families, businesses and corporate sponsors who help to support our monthly service work throughout the year and also allow Teams Work For Good to provide financial assistance and solutions to communities and organizations.
This event has supported the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, Feed My Starving Children, Local Food Banks, Center for Family Services, Pencils of Promise, Grass Root Soccer and other programs invested in the health, well being and potential of people in our local, national and international communities.
Over the past two years, Teams Work For Good has supported Kids Alley, a 501 c3 organization committed confronting and supporting the societal shortcomings and personal needs that effect at risk children from Camden and the surrounding area.
We met with the k-8 children in the afterschool program and took their shoe sizes with the support of the Haddonfield Running Company and purchased running shoes for each of them to enjoy wearing and playing in.. The money to purchase these dozens of running shoes was raised through our annual Thanksgiving morning Turkey Trots which are becoming a part of the local community holiday tradition.
Over the past four years, Teams Work for Good has supported Center for Family Services, an organization who helps people affected by violence, poverty, addiction, and trauma. We have really enjoyed engaging in a holiday gift project each year organized by Center for Family Services.
This project includes donating, sorting, and packaging gifts for people of all ages that are in the program. These gifts are given to people who normally would not receive presents during the holidays. We also sponsored twenty teenaged girls in 2016, where we were given their Christmas lists and went gift shopping for each of them.
In the spring of our eighth grade year, our soccer team, the Haddonfield Lightening, came together for our first service project: our first Feed My Starving Children packing event. This Spring 2016 event at a local church is what sparked a love for service within the Teams Work for Good family.
Feed My Starving Children is a non-profit organization that coordinates the packaging and distribution of food to people in developing nations. The organization, with the help of volunteers like Teams Work For Good, has helped malnourished children in over 70 countries worldwide. Teams Work for Good has participated in the Feed My Starving Children packing event in Haddonfield, NJ for three years and the event in Cherry Hill, NJ for one year.
At the April 2016 event, our Haddonfield location packed 272,160 meals over six packing shifts with 1500 volunteers. All of these meals were sent to children in Haiti.
At the March 2017 event, We worked with about 1,570 other volunteers over 7 packing shifts to pack 326,592 meals for children in Somalia and Haiti.
In April 2018, we worked with about 2,000 other volunteers over 6 packing shifts to pack 500,000 meals. We most recently packed meals in October of 2019.
Teams Work For Good holds this event very close to our hearts, as it was our inspiration to turn our soccer team into a community service non-profit. For this reason, we have taken every opportunity to become more involved with this wonderful organization.
Made over 200 dog treats and collected blankets.
Made peanut butter and jelly sandwiches.
Conducted a can drive with the Haddonfield Middle School.
Baked Cookies for the firefighters.
Helped to support their Pasta Bowl by serving food
Collected vases and helped with repurposing flowers from events to share with others in nursing homes and hospitals
Helped to support the Chicken Run in Haddonfield. The Foundation helps families battling cancer with day-to-day necessities or long-term goals to restore hope for the future. Since 1974, the Canuso Foundation has raised over $2 million for cancer research at CHOP.
Please help support Kids Alley and The Food Bank of South Jersey by sponsoring Teams Work For Good’s 7th Annual Turkey Trot! Sponsorships are available until Sunday, November 17 at 10 am. Donations are appreciated until November 28th. Please see below for ways to become a sponsor or donor to the event. To access a printable copy of the sponsorship forms, please click on the image of the form you plan on using.
*Donations and sponsorships do NOT qualify as registration. Registration is separate*
