You Can Help Empower Children as they Return to School
Marking our 15th Anniversary in 2023
Donate to the Back 2 School Store
Click below for donation options and to see what your support will provide the kids.
Volunteer at the Back 2 School Store
July 30, 2023
Volunteers guide each child through the store as they shop for their own items, prepare personalized packages to be be distributed to our partners. Contact Angie Benedict, Membership Manager for more information.
You Make a Difference
Since 2008, the B2SS has served more than 10,000 children in Essex County. This year, approximately 1,000 children will receive a NEW and FREE outfit (shirt, pants, and winter jacket), underwear, socks, hat and gloves, and a new backpack filled with school supplies, personal care items and books.
Hundreds of community volunteers will participate in a meaningful day of in-person direct service on July 30, 2023, led by our all-volunteer committee that works year-round to shop, prepare and run the store.
Sponsor the Back 2 School Store
Click below for our sponsorship packet or contact Alison Haight, Director of Development for more information.
Thank You to Our Amazing 2023 Grantors, Sponsors, Corporate and Individual Donors
Platinum
Audrey Gaelen and the Gaelen Family Resource Center
Gold
Kearny Bank Foundation
Cestone Family Foundation
The Johnson Family
Popular Bank Foundation
RBC Wealth Management
Silver
Judy Wais Tabak & the Tabak Fass Book Nook
The Marilyn Lichtman Foundation
Gebroe Family Foundation
Gerson Family Foundation
Girls Helping Girls. Period.
Tradeweb Markets LLC
Jon Ben Snow Memorial Trust
Sharon Levine Corzine
Stacey Rudbart
The Thomas and Agnes Carvel Foundation
Blue
Gerald Ritzer
Scudiery Family Foundation
Rotary Club of Livingston
South Orange Elks
Rotary Club of the Caldwells
Einhorn, Barbarito, Frost and Botwinick, PC
Nukk-Freeman & Cerra, PC
Green
SBC Interiors, Sara Chwatt
Susan Claman
Elizabeth Brandwein Cohen & Gerald Cohen
Diane Freedman
Randi & Stuart Geffner
Ruth Hutter
Ellen Hyman
Nadine Milberg
Sharyn Model
Deborah Legow Schatz
Sharon Uchitel
Valley Bank
Sue and Jon Wasserman
In-Kind Donors
Bombas
Essex County Community Transportation Program
Two Men and a Truck
Cooperman Barnabas Medical Center/RWJ Barnabas Health
Honor Roll
Hope Atlas
Beth Berns
Debi Blitz
Susie Botwinick
Maximize Boutique
Renae Brauner-Douglen
Joan Bucholtz
Tammy Buren
Cindy Charney
Citizens Philanthropic Foundation
Joanne Davison
Bari Ecker
Dorie Eisenstein
Sharon Falkin
Sandy Fein
Karen Feinblatt
Mildred Feldstein
Sheila Figman Eule
Beth Fink
Pamela Fishman
Nancy N. Freedman
Terri Friedman
Miriam Frolow
Stacey Gold
Sue Goldberg
Jennie Goldsmith Rothman
Judith Goldstein
Jeanne Gordon
Alison Haight
Miriam Haimes
Alison Handler
Toby Harwood
Gabrielle Herman
Lisa Hipscher
Rita Isaacs
Amy Ipp
Karen Irlando
Tema Javerbaum
Allison Kalsched
Bernard Kashmann
Melissa Kaufman
Claire Keyles
Madeleine Koenig
Susan Kogan
Arlene Kollin
Nancy Korde
Danielle Kurlander
Judy Kuskin
Amy Levine
Abby Levinson
Lisa Less
Felice Londa
Susan Lubalin
Michael Mandelbaum
Isabel Margolin
Michael & Jennifer Markovitz –
Charitable Fund
Leslie McCafferty
Jeremy Medow
Marion Medow
Deborah Miller
Andrea Mintz
Patricia Nathan
Carol Nelson-Felzenberg
Susan Novin
Mandi Perlmutter
Judith Peskin
PSE&G
Roberta Rabin
Beth Randall-Branigan
Lisa Rosenbaum
Claudia Sandonato
Lisa Santola
Susan Sarver
Nancy Sasso
Marsha Schaffer
June Schechner
Jackie Schein
Janet Schwartzbard
Randi Sellinger
Kari Shron – Third Grade
Girl Scouts of North Caldwell
Susan Shusman
Amy Smith
Cameron Sparrow
Hope Tafet
Bonnie Tessler
Sheri Trugman
Cynthia Vallario
Susan Weissman
Madge Wilson
Sue Wishnow
Linda Wolk
*Donor List Current as of August 3
2023 Back 2 School Store Steering Committee
Susie Botwinick, Elizabeth Brandwein Cohen, Danielle Kurlander, Co-Chairs
Jodi Arsht, Melissa Berger, Jordyn Blackburn, Julie Cohen, Jen Dany, Deb Eckstein, Erica Facktor, Sherri Fendelman, Marissa Fishman, Stacy Gold, Rachel Greenberg, Gabrielle Herman, Tara Heyderman, Phyllis Jacobs, Sandy Katz, Abby Levinson, Lauren Markon, Sydra Miller, Andrea Mintz, Patti Nathan, Bess Oransky, Lori Rosenbaum, Jennie Goldsmith Rothman, Stacey Rudbart, Michelle Sachs, Laurie Schuftan, Mara Silber, Judy Wais Tabak, Helaine Wallach
