Poverty and suffering are not cold statistics. They have a human face. They represent real people who urgently need our help.

Donations to the Greater Newark Holiday Fund can work miracles. We’ve gathered some heartwarming accounts of the work the Fund supports, all drawn from actual cases handled by our partner agencies.

For compelling examples of how your gift will better the lives of real people, simply click on a topic that interests you to see what your support can do. Our thanks to our partners the Newark Star-Ledger and NJ.com, who published the original versions of these stories, for letting us use them in their present form.