From: Ridgewood Chamber of Commerce, 27 Chestnut Street, Ridgewood, NJ Contact: Axiom Communications: Marjorie Kaplan or Michael Golz [email protected] / 201.741.6616 or [email protected] / 201.788.7821 $1 MILLION FOR 100,000 MEALS: RIDGEWOOD, N.J. NONPROFIT & PARTNERS AWARDED STATE GRANT TO AID RESTAURANTS, FIGHT FOOD INSECURITY IN BERGEN COUNTY DURING PANDEMIC RIDGEWOOD, N.J., February 25, 2021 – On Thurs., Feb. 25th at 10:30Read More
HealthBarn Foundation Rings NASDAQ Closing Bell 1/5/21
Thank you Nasdaq team for honoring the HealthBarn Foundation and its good works in celebration of wellness week. Executive Director, Stacey Antine, MS, RDN and volunteers rang the Nasdaq closing bell on 1/5/21 virtually. Watch live footage of community volunteers in action for Healing Meals, a nutritious food gifting program, for ill children and seniorsRead More
Associated Press (AP): Experts Say Safe Thanksgiving Possible Amid Virus
The Associated Press featured HealthBarn Foundation’s Healing Meals volunteers in action preparing for the annual Ridgewood Giving Thanks Elder Dinner as a grab n’ go frozen Thanksgiving Dinner instead of a sit down event. The volunteers produced over 250 freshly cooked Thanksgiving Meals and Apple Crisp desserts frozen for delivery in partnership with Ridgewood Parks andRead More
Feed the Frontlines Initiative
Feed the Frontlines Initiative is a call-to-action to provide meals prepared by local Ridgewood restaurants to first responders and community groups during the Coronavirus pandemic. It is an organized way for people to help feed local healthcare workers and first responders while supporting local restaurants who have been hit hard economically. Feeding the Frontlines is madeRead More
HealthBarn Foundation Awarded Gold President’s Volunteer Service Award
Ridgewood, NJ (November 20, 2019) – HealthBarn Foundation 501c3 was awarded the Gold level President’s Volunteer Service Award (PVSA), the country’s premiere volunteer award program, by Sue Ullrich, Ridgecrest Senior Housing, a PVSA certifying agency, at the 4th Annual Ridgewood Thanksgiving Elder Dinner. Stacey Antine, MS, RDN, Director of the Foundation, accepted the award forRead More
NJTV: Volunteers Provide Healing Meals for Ill Children
“Healing Meals is really a gift of love. My dad had cancer about three years ago and I’m a registered dietitian, my mom is a really good cook and it was really a challenge to make sure that he was eating nutritionally and keeping his weight up,” Antine said. The customized, family-style meals are madeRead More
The Record: Nourishing the Careworn
The Record’s Better Living Section featured: Giving Back: Maywood’s Alice Wright Helps Lead a Free Food Program for Families with Sick Children… “Alice Wright won’t meet the Cortez family or any other recipients. She doesn’t hand them the meals. They won’t know the name of the Maywood resident, who likely had a hand in preparingRead More
NJ Suburban News: Kids Learn to Give Back
“The #helpers book sale was very successful,” Rothenberg said on Monday, Feb. 29, adding that they raised $606. The funds will be split between the two charities that received the most stickers, which were Josephine’s Garden, a garden located at the children’s hospital at Hackensack University Medical Center, and Healing Meals, a food program partRead More
Good News Network: Gift For Families Dealing with Cancer: 6,000 Take-Home Meals
“When families are in this time of stress, it’s s not a time to educate people about what they should be eating, it’s a time to make sure they’re getting what they need,” Antine told Good News Network. “That prompted me thinking, ‘How can I make that happen?’” Antine went to a nonprofit and proposed the idea thatRead More
Paramus Post: St. Joseph’s Children’s Hospital Offers Food Gifting Program
“Stacey Antine, MS, RDN, founder of HealthBarn USA and director of HealthBarn Foundation, launched this one-of-kind food gifting program in 2014, in collaboration with community partners to assure that all children have access to healthy meals when their nutritional needs are heightened. “We are thrilled to welcome the St. Joseph’s Children’s Hospital community into thisRead More