The online Treat a Healthcare Hero to Dinner drew a swift, generous response from individuals and local businesses, enabling the Princeton Medical Center (PMC) Foundation to raise $167,312 from 494 donors within only a few weeks.
The Foundation used the funds to engage 15 local restaurants to prepare and deliver dinner for two to staff members throughout the organization. A total 2,935 staff members received the meals at the end of a workday in May.
The campaign was separate from the many food donations that were delivered to PMC and other Princeton Health locations throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. One local organization alone — FLAG (Front Line Appreciation Group) Cranbury — raised more than $27,000 to provide takeout deliveries from local restaurants to PMC every day between early April and June.
Local Youth Efforts Benefit Princeton Health Staff, Patients
Throughout Central Jersey, elementary and middle schoolers put their imaginations and abilities to work this spring, raising money and donating needed supplies and food to support the healthcare heroes at Penn Medicine Princeton Health.
- Tony Wang, a seventh-grader at Princeton Academy of the Sacred Heart, used the money he had earned tutoring to donate 10,000 masks at a time when personal protective equipment was a dire need for healthcare organizations throughout the state and the nation.
- The youth group D.O.N.A.T.E. raised nearly $4,600 to benefit patients affected by COVID-19. Thank you to the team members Jamie Creasi, Sabrina Liding, Karen Qiu, Alice Yu, and Sophia Feng, and their co-organizer, the Martians Robotics FLL and FTC Team, Angela Yang, Christine Wu, Leanne and Christopher Yang, and Andrew and Kaitlyn Yang.
- 10-year-old Madelyn McCarthy benefited patients by donating $250 that she raised by producing beautiful artworks commissioned by family and friends.
- Unnat Chhatwal, an eighth-grader at Monroe Township Middle School, donated healthy snacks to staff members at Princeton Medical Center (PMC).
- 13-year-olds Ava Burns and Bryce Hanley and 12-year-old Austyn Hanley, all from PennIngton, set up a car wash to raise money to provide meals to the surgical team. The donation was made in the name of Jamie Ellmer, RN, a surgical nurse at PMC.
- Max Gertsman, 12, organized a project called Max’s Snacks for Heroes and recently dropped off more than 200 bags of snacks for Princeton Health staff members.
To read more about community donations, visit PrincetonHCS.org/news.