Group: Glen Ridge High School
Address: 200 Ridgewood Avenue, Glen Ridge, NJ 07028
Contact: Joan Boland, Social Studies Program Leader
Email: JBoland@glenridge.org
Amount Raised: $2,000+
Fundraising Project:
I learned about the Solar Cooker Project from a flier emailed to all of the middle and high schools from the coalition, then went to Their website and copied information and maps to supplement the Instructional Guide in developing a curriculum for my International Relations class.
We watched the “Devil Came on Horseback”. The students then decided that they wanted to collect money for the solar cookers. One student drafted a letter, emailed to our community, and they then prepared a video public service announcement shown in school each morning. When our project was completed, we were invited by the coalition to participate in a Montclair State University cable TV show, “Carpe Diem”, addressing the crisis in Darfur, The Solar Cooker Project, and the Genocide Instructional Guide.
Group: Rayway High School
Address: 1012 Madison Avenue, Rahway, NJ 07065
Contact: Debra Maller-Natoli, Teacher and Advisor, Multi-Ethnic Club
Email: dnatoli@rahway.net
Amount Raised: In progress
Fundraising Project:
With the theme, The Power Of One, this year's multi-cultural mission is to connect the tragedies of genocide in the past, the suffering from brutality in the present, with the hope for the future, in the power of one.The week of 4/6 we began our "Survivor Speaks" presentations to select 11th and 12th grade, ESL and special ed students. The theme will be carried into the classrooms where we focus on flags and maps, used throughout the school. Students and the community can purchase them, put their names on them for display and the monies collected will go the the Solar Cooker Project. We have a solar cooker on display in the cafeteria with the JWW DVD with a tri-color poster with information. Students from my club are also going to each homeroom to collect. We have a thermometer outside of the main office to keep track of how many cookers we can buy.We have raised money for 34 cookers, and hope for more before the fund raiser ends on May 4th.
Group: Sparta Middle School
Address: Sparta, New Jersey
Contact: Christine Crawford
Email: Christine.Crawford@sparta.org
Amount Raised: $1100+
Fundraising Project:
A colleague teacher saw a NJ Coalition article about the Solar Cooker Project in the NJEA Review. We were planning to explore the issue of genocide for our students.With my colleagues, I developed a curriculum for our 6th graders on the genocide in Darfur. We called it "Be the Change..Connections". We modified some of the genocide language to make it appropriate for this age group, and had the full support of the administration and our parent body. Our curriculum is unique, and we are happy to share it with other schools. It was featured on the Montclair State University program, CarpeDiem, in a segment devoted to Darfur, the State Genocide Instructional Guide, and the Solar Cooker Project. Our children created a fund raising project to sell bracelets.We contacted the Darfur Rehabilitation Project and they provided a Board Member, Professor Barkely Calkins, to speak to an assembly of 300 children.
Group: Joseph H. Brensinger School
Address: 600 Bergen Avenue Jersey City, NJ 07304
Contact: Denise Daye, middle school Math teacher
Email: DDAYE@jcboe.org
Amount Raised: $2800
Fundraising Project:
We are very proud of our students and their concern for others. Our school is in an economically disadvantaged area, yet the children and their families responded so positively to this project, that we have raised over $1100, so far. I developed this project after seeing a Solar Cooker flier sent by the State Holocaust Commission, and have been joined by our science and social studies teachers. Together with the children we presented our material on the genocide in Darfur at an assemble for the entire school. The coalition loaned us a Solar Cooker and sent us the DVD on the project developed by Jewish World Watch in California. Our science teacher used the cooker to teach the children about conductivity and heat transfer.
Group: Passaic Valley Regional High School
Address: Little Falls, NJ
Contact: Kathleen Menake
Email: pvkmenake@yahoo.com
Amount Raised: $915.00
Fundraising Project:
My senior course titled "Contemporary Issues Through Videoconferencing" teamed with my Amnesty International Club and held a fundraiser to raise money for the Purchase Solar Cooker Project we learned about from our participation in a video conference in 9/08 on Darfur. We spoke with Ted Braun, director of "Darfur Now", a documentary on the genocide. Jewish World Watch informed us of the NJ Coalition and we visited your website in class together. We held the fundraiser during lunch periods over one week, but because our students did such an exceptional job of educating other students, donations kept coming in, even after we stopped.
Group: Grace Lutheran Church
Address: 65 E. Main Street Mendham, NJ 07945
Contact: Lynn Perry
Email : zapper97@optonline.net
Amount Raised: In progress
Fundraising Project:
I learned about the "Purchase Solar Cooker.." Project at the NJ Council of Churches conference in 1/09. They are a member of the NJ Coalition Responds to the Crisis in Darfur, and this project and the flier were shared with us. When I read the description of the genocide on the flier, I thought that it would be a perfect fundraiser project for Mothers'Day, We have done projects for global efforts in the past, and I felt that this was an important way to support anti-violence against women as well as to expand our efforts to be more"green". The Pastor and Stewardship committee were immediatly on board!.We contacted the Coaltion and learned about Jewish World Watch, their DVD and the work that they have done in other refugee camps in Chad.We have ordered the DVD and a solar cooker and will update the coalition on the project as it develops. We hope that the Coalition will send a speaker for one of our services.
Group: Kean University AFT Local 6024, Adjunct Faculty Local Teachers Union
Address: Kean University, AFT, 1000 Morris Ave, Union, NJ
Contact: Dr. Kathleen Mary Henderson
Email: khenders@kean.edu
Amount Raised: In progress. Goal: 1000 solar cookers
Fundraising Project:
Organized financial sponsorship drive by adjunct faculy of teachers union.
Group: Barnert Temple, Religious School Tzedakah fund
Address: 747 Route 208, South, Franklin Lakes, Nj 07417
Contact: Helen Fleischmann, Ass.Director of Education
201-848-1027
Amount Raised: $1874.75
Group: Middlesex High School
Address: 300 Kennedy Drive, Middlesex, NJ 08846
Contact: Sally Sharps,Sp.Ed.teacher, Advisor Amnesty International group
732-259-6099
Amount Raised: $450.00
Group: Montclair Cares . Raising Awareness, Providing Support, Renewing Hope
Address: Montclair, New Jersey 07042
Contact: Foundation Creators. Mary & Dustin Bradley
Email: Montclaircaresdarfur@live.com or Marybradleynj@live.com
Amount Raised: $1100.00
Fundraising Project:
We have created a new Foundation to address the lives of the women and children in Africa. Our first effort was a benefit at the Van Vleck House and Gardens in Montclair
to raise money for the NJ Coalition Solar Cooker Project. On March 26,2009 our invited guests were addressed by Mr. Abdelbagy Abushanab, Executive and Past President/Co-Founder of the Darfur Rehabilitation Project, Professor Barkley Calkins, DRP Board Member,and Dr. Janet Nelson and Ms. Joyce Reilly, Co-Chairs of the NJ Responds Coalition, who discussed the Solar Cooker Project in partnership with Jewish World Watch. Our board has decided to continue this effort and focus our current work toward the solar cooker project.
