Peer Leaders from Cape May County Technical High School sorted and inventoried the rubber ducks used in the Rubber Ducky Regatta in April.
Thanks, Peer Leaders!

“Live United” is the United Way’s appeal for supporters to get involved in their community by giving, advocating, and volunteering. And employees at Cape Regional Medical Center are answering that call by signing on to a payroll deduction program that will help support the necessary services that the United Way of Cape May County and its partner agencies provide.

“Many hands make light work,” said United Way Executive Director, Suzanne Nardi. “So while the cost of a couple cups of coffee a week or one fast food meal doesn’t seem like much, when everyone pitches in a little, we can do great things in our community.”
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The employees of Bucks Electric, 100 East 7th Ave., North Wildwood, Live United. Every year, the company’s employees make a cash donation to a fund to purchase food for the United Way’s First Call for Help food pantry. The company then matches the employees’ donation and purchases much needed non-perishable food items that help local residents in crisis to make it through the cold winter months. It’s the generosity of local residents and businesses, like the folks at Buck’s, that help the United Way to help others.

Diapers are budget busters for some families, especially when a sudden job loss or crisis diminishes a family’s income. But Clermont Nine Realtors came to the rescue in December with a huge diaper drive for local families who are having trouble affording their basic needs.

Pictured with the mountain of diapers that they collected and donated are United Way Executive Director, Suzanne Nardi, and Clermont Nine Broker, Kimberly Schiela. It is community-minded local businesses like Clermont that help the United Way to achieve its mission of making life better for Cape May Caunty Residents

Atlantic Cape Community College’s Campus Ambassadors ended 2008 by helping local students to start the New Year with new school supplies. Throughout the fall semester, the students collected notebooks, pens, pencils, crayons, backpacks and other items, and in December, they delivered them to United Way of Cape May County headquarters, where they will be distributed to Glenwood Avenue Elementary School students who need them.

The mission of ACCC’s Campus Ambassador Program is “to bring college and community together,” and the group’s members work all year long to build bridges between the county residents and the county community college. They offer campus tours to potential students, volunteer at open houses, and hold food and drives aimed at bettering the community.

“It is so important that young people like ACCC’s Campus Ambassadors get involved in giving back,” United Way Executive Director Suzanne Nardi said. “They are the future of our community.”

A group of kids (and adults) from Bethany Lutheran Church helped us sort ducks while they were on a retreat at the Lutheran Church in Wildwood this summer. Read more…

PNC Bank, in North Wildwood, suffered a security breech last week, when a duckbilled bandit was caught, attempting to steal the bank’s coveted Rubber Ducky Cup—a trophy awarded to PNC last year for selling more rubber duckies than any other local bank.

PNC Teller Supervisor, Brandy DeMarzo, caught the culprit red-handed as she was coming out of the vault, and she was able to foil the plot. But the duck-billed bandit took flight and is still at large. Read more…

Superfresh, in Cape May Court House, is helping out its neighbors, while helping out in the environment. The store donated a generous supply of reusable shopping bags to the United Way of Cape May County’s First Call for Help food pantry. Read more…

For some people, shopping is a drudgery, but not for Ray Seible, of North Wildwood. Every week, Seible checks grocery store sale ads, clips coupons and organizes his plan of attack with the all the precision and skill of a military operation. Read more…

United Way of Cape May County is again gearing up for the Rubber Ducky Regatta, the annual fundraiser and community event, where a flock of rubber duckies race around Morey’s Endless River to win hundreds of prizes for their sponsors.

The race takes place on Aug. 10, but until then, the United Way needs a clean and convenient place to store and organize the ducks, and Molly and Ed Wisely, of Coastline Heating and Cooling, in Burleigh, came to the rescue by donating storage space. Read more…