ALT How Will You Help on #Giving Tuesday? This Thanksgiving Holiday we are thankful for past and new donors and for all that NJ Friends of Clearwater has accomplished in 2023! This #GivingTuesday, November 28, please help us continue our most popular, and meaningful public programs in the coming year: In 2024 we will be staging our 50th Annual Clearwater Music and Environmental Festival. Fifty years of wonderfully joyous and inclusive, NJ Friends of Clearwater Festivals featuring all genres of music, expos of environmental activist organizations, green vendors, and our Annual Environmental Justice and Sustainability Roundtables! This Festival and our policy, educational, and action initiatives, … Advocacy of, and Action for a ban of single-use plastics, positive Climate Change, Sustainability, and Environmental and Social Justice solutions and our Circle of Song , …are fully defined on our website: https://www.njclearwater.org.

ALT 3rd annual “Take a Walk in Their Shoes.” The 2-mile walk on the Asbury Park boardwalk will be held on Sunday, November 5th from 9 to 10 a.m. November is National Homeless Youth Awareness Month. Individuals, businesses, schools and organizations can participate by serving as sponsors, signing up to walk, organizing a team of walkers or joining a team. Walker registration is only $20 and each walker is asked to raise a minimum of $50 from family, friends and colleagues, although it’s not mandatory. All participants receive a commemorative t-shirt and can win prizes in the "Give a Hand, Get a Hand" on-site contest. To sponsor, register to walk or make a donation, go to the secure event site at https://secure.qgiv.com/event/awalkintheirshoes2023/. For more information contact [email protected]