Community Partners
MLK Week of Service is made possible through meaningful partnerships with a wide range of nonprofit organizations and community groups who help us turn values into action. We are deeply grateful for our partners’ commitment to serving communities and advancing equity, care, and collective impact.
2026 Community Partners
The Hoboken Shelter
The Hoboken Shelter’s mission is to be a community partnership that transforms lives by providing meals for the hungry, shelter for the homeless, & services to support people to become housed.
St. Matthew Trinity Lunchtime Ministry
Lunchtime Ministry (LTM) was started in the 1970’s by the people of St. Matthew Trinity to provide a warm meal, hospitality, and community for our neighbors who are homeless, marginally housed, or just hungry. The mission is to provide our Hoboken neighbors with a warm meal, a compassionate community, and a peaceful place to spend the morning. We strive to be a place where everyone is treated with dignity and respect.
7/20 Foundation
7/20 Foundation understand the power of community support and how deeply it can impact those who are grieving. Through Douwe’s crane design for the permanent 7/20 memorial “Ascentiate,” we are shifting from banners to wreaths made of origami cranes carrying messages of peace and love, symbolizing endless compassion. The Aurora History Museum will provide supplies and host folding sessions year-round, inviting everyone to join this global effort by creating cranes at home or in groups.
Warm Up America
Wam Up America has been helping to connect volunteers to organizations in need of handmade goods for over 30 years. Their mission aims to promote and encourage volunteers who knit and crochet to craft blankets, clothing, and additional supplies for people in need. Warm Up America helps connect volunteers to organizations seeking support, including those that support veterans, children in the foster system, people in hospice, unhoused individuals, and more.
Courage in Time Inc.
Courage in Time Inc. supports families who experienced stillbirth and infant loss through curated bereavement boxes, grief and postpartum resources and connections to other bereaved families
Color a Smile
Color A Smile is a nonprofit organization that distributes cheerful drawings to nursing homes, hospitals, meals on wheels programs, our troops overseas, and anyone in need of a smile. Every month we mail thousands of new drawings to the recipients on our mailing list. Since 1990, Color A Smile has given out millions of cheerful drawings.
Grace Healthcare Services
It is our belief that the delivery of hospice care can be taken to a new level of excellence by those who understand the privilege of what it means to serve the terminally ill. Grace Healthcare Services was founded by a group of hospice professionals who value that opportunity and privilege. We are dedicated to advancing the quality of hospice care in the communities that we serve. Our promise is to utilize the inherent expertise of our staff to educate consumers and serve patients and families with the highest level of dignity and grace.
Love for our Elders
Love for Our Elders includes an amazing team and more than 50,000 volunteers across 70 countries working together to fight loneliness with love. Since 2013, we’ve mailed hundreds of thousands of thousands of letters to senior communities and created a storybook of inspiring seniors. LFOE seeks to facilitate an easy outlet for connecting with older adults who may feel alone, support seniors across socioeconomic and regional backgrounds, fight ageism and promote intergenerational sharing to humanize elders and bridge age barriers.
RWJ Barnabas Health
RWJBarnabas Health is New Jersey’s largest integrated health care delivery system, providing treatment and services to more than three million patients each year. Throughout RWJBarnabas Health, our dedicated physicians, nurses, and health professionals are committed to providing the highest quality of patient care and health education to the community and region. We aim to truly make a unique impact in local communities throughout New Jersey. From vastly improving the health of local residents to creating educational and career opportunities, this combination greatly benefits the state. We understand the growing and evolving needs of residents in New Jersey—whether that be enhancing the coordination for treating complex health conditions or improving community health through local programs and education.
Previous Community Partners
The Hoboken Community Center and Food Pantry
The Hoboken Community Center is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that provides essential services and spaces to support the well-being of the Hoboken, NJ community. It has a three-pronged mission consisting of affordable housing for 96 low-income men, a 40,000+ square foot community and recreation center under rehabilitation at 1301 Washington Street, and a food and hygiene supply pantry. The Pantry supports residents of the Hoboken Community Center Affordable Housing Program as well as community members experiencing food insecurity or other hardships. The Pantry is a member agency of the Community Food Bank of NJ.
The Sharing Place Food Pantry
The Sharing Place Food Pantry is one of Hudson County’s oldest and largest food pantries. It serves to provide needs for low income families and individuals by giving out groceries (including fresh produce, meats, proteins, dairy, eggs and non-perishables) each month. Volunteers are needed to assist with food distribution.
Computers 4 People
Computers For People Inc. was founded in 2019 by then 15-year-old Dylan Zajac in Hoboken, NJ. The non-profit was formed through his vision to create a sustainable solution to the mass pollution of e-waste and the ever-growing digital divide. Computers 4 People has grown to a leading organization tackling the digital divide in the New York City Metropolitan area. By refurbishing donated devices, teaching essential digital skills, and improving connectivity, we aim to bridge the digital divide and create opportunities for individuals and communities to thrive in the digital age.
Friends of Chervonohrad
Friends of Chervonohrad (FoC) is an 501c3 organization with a mission to provide direct support to the community in Chervonohrad, Ukraine, 30 miles from the Polish border, which has seen a large influx of refugees from more dire parts of Ukraine impacted by war and a large number of its own people drawn to the front lines of the war.
Bridges Outreach
Bridges ends homelessness through street outreach and intensive case management focusing on health, housing, and independence. Bridges forms relationships with those experiencing homelessness while meeting their most urgent needs.
Project Linus
Project Linus provides handmade blankets to children 0-18 in the United States who are seriously ill, traumatized, or otherwise in need.
Heart of Dinner
Founded in NYC at the onset of COVID-19, Heart of Dinner's mission works to directly address loneliness, isolation, and food insecurity among Asian American older adults—long-standing community issues that have been historically overlooked across the nation where, more often than not, low-income Elders live in socioeconomic, cultural, and linguistics isolation. Heart of Dinner curates and sources culturally thoughtful and nutritious food, then assembles the essential ingredients inside hand-illustrated brown bags with handwritten love notes attached in the Elders' native languages to respect, honor, and dignify the cultural nuances across the Asian diaspora. The signature Heart of Dinner care packages are delivered directly to the homes of Elder beneficiaries to nourish the physical, mental, and emotional well-being.
Hoboken Public Library
The Hoboken Public Library connects people with each other, ideas, and opportunities to support lifelong learning, personal growth, and community development. All our services and programs are made possible by the generous and dedicated people who run and contribute to the Hoboken Public Library Friends & Foundation, as well as the stewardship of the Hoboken Public Library Board of Trustees.
Symposia Bookstore
Symposia Community Bookstore, Inc. is a PUBLIC BENEFIT nonprofit corporation in Hoboken NJ, organized and operated exclusively for educational and charitable purposes. Specifically, they operate a thrift shop consisting of books. Symposia offers great prices for used books, space for meetings, community events, support for local charities and groups, and volunteer opportunities.
Hoboken Charter School
The Hoboken Charter School is a K-12 community of learners that seeks to develop the growth of all its members through its commitment to social justice and service-learning through learner-centered practices. Our mission, size and dedication to providing an inclusive learning community that spans thirteen years of education allows for something different- an individualized journey that leads students to know who they are and how they will change the world.
Elysian Charter School
The Elysian Charter School approach to learning, teaching and community is based on many of the philosophies taught in the tradition of hands-on and cooperative learning. Our philosophy leads us to teach in a manner that is child-centered, holistic, progressive and academically rigorous.
SAGE (Advocacy and Service for LGBTQ+ Elders)
SAGE leads in addressing issues related to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and questioning and other self-identifying members of the community (LGBTQ+) aging. In partnership with its constituents and allies, SAGE works to achieve a high quality of life for LGBTQ+ older people, supports and advocates for their rights, fosters a greater understanding of aging in all communities, and promotes positive images of LGBTQ+ life in later years.