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As of October 29, 2024, the New Jersey Organizing Project is officially ten years old, and we couldn’t have done it without all of you.
To celebrate an entire decade of NJOP, we took it back to the beginning and built up some great energy for what comes next during our 10th Anniversary Celebration at the Taylor Pavilion in Belmar. For everyone who joined us for this very special evening, and for everyone whose work continues to make NJOP what it is today: you are the reason we have been able to keep trying. You contribute, phone bank, sign petitions, share your stories with the world, show up and step up at meetings and events on and offline, bring your unique talents into the fight time and time again – and every piece of this is essential to fixing broken systems in each of our communities.
Without you, without the pieces you each have a hand in, there would be no us. Thank you.
Our celebration in Belmar was more than just a party, though we did have a lot of fun on the dance floor. We raised almost $40,000 to continue our fight to get New Jersey storm survivors home and whole, end the overdose crisis, and put people first in politics. We raffled off some awesome prizes from local artists and businesses. We learned from each other about how far we’ve come and where we’re taking NJOP from here. And more!
These 10 years have shown us that we need each other to get through the tough times and put everything we have into winning big for our families and communities. Will you contribute to another decade of NJOP by helping us raise another $10,000 by the end of this year?
Let’s make this interesting, Jersey-style. Cast your vote now for the defining question of our times and contribute by clicking on (or scanning) your choice below. Choose wisely…
Congratulations to our 2024 Awardees!
During our 10th Anniversary Celebration, we presented our NJOP 2024 Awardees: Eric Vaugn, Kacey McKown, and Congressman (now Senator-elect) Andy Kim! These awards, named in honor of our core values and the amazing members that embody them, were presented to three people who never stop fighting for their families, communities, and for New Jerseyans across the state. Thank you so much for all the hard work you do to make sure everyone in New Jersey gets the fair recovery they deserve.
The 2024 Nancy Caira Award went to a member of our Storm Organizing campaign who has done outstanding work on behalf of his family, community, and storm survivors across the state. Eric Vaughn is a Hurricane Ida survivor and a devoted single dad raising two boys in the town he grew up in and loves. The first two years after Ida he took on the broken disaster recovery system from an RV on his driveway, and now he continues to lead by channeling the issues his community is facing into power.
The 2024 Pat Waltz Award went to a Not One More member who has been front and center in every aspect of our work to end preventable overdose in New Jersey. Kacey McKown embodies all of the core values of Not One More. She has dedicated her life to ending the overdose crisis as one of New Jersey’s first certified Peer Recovery Specialists, and as a leader in our fight to stop bills that will punish people for their pain, and make sure Opioid Settlement Funds are used for compassionate, evidence-based care.
If you know NJOP, you know how we roll: when told to sit down and shut up, we stand up and we speak out. We granted this special 2024 Stand Up and Speak Out award to Congressman Andy Kim, who has stood with us throughout the years, even before he was our Representative. Read more about why we endorsed Congressman Kim for U.S. Senate here.
With these awards, we honor and remember Nancy Caira and Patrick Waltz. Nancy testified, strategized, showed up to events, and fundraised from the minute she joined NJOP to when she passed away in 2020. She paved pathways home for Sandy families while struggling to get home herself. Waltz, as his friends called him, was one of the casualties of the overdose crisis, it was a donation made in his honor that helped us start our Not 0ne More campaign years ago. As put by Waltz’s friends, by sharing the stories, journeys, and struggles of our loved ones lost to overdose, we’re fighting to prevent the loss of more amazing humans in the future.
Thank you to our 10th Anniversary Celebration Sponsors
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