Tenafly Nonprofits and Charities

Children's Cardiomyopathy Foundation gives so much hope to children battling cardiomyopathy and their families. They are committed to raising awareness, providing support, and funding research. Their team is so helpful and connects you with others in the same situation as your child. CCF has transformed lives in so many ways.

This is a wonderful theater group that runs an outstanding youth theater arts program as well as provides the community with affordable professional theater. Their teaching staff produces very professional youth theater productions and attracts the very best young talent in Northern New Jersey. I have seen troubled youth thrive and grow with the training and encouragement provided.

My girlfriend and I had signed up for the Full Moon Hike a couple of month's ago. Unfortunately the hike was rained out and cancelled. Last night, we finally got to go on the Full Moon Hike and it was quite enjoyable. Our guide, Kathleen, was very informative about the vegetation we past along the way, the differences made to certain trails for those of us who had hiked the Center before, and (her being an ornithologist), she was able to tell us about the birds making the sounds that we heard. The only less than favorable part was that the mosquitos were also on the hike. The bug spray helped a lot! Oh, almost forgot, a young bear was spotted at the Center earlier in the day, so that added a bit of anticipation to the evening.

Sherri and Seth do amazing work. The lives they impact every day is their true legacy. Sherri's book is one of the most powerful things I have read. What they have done is take an awful tragedy that nobody should ever endure and turn it into a gift they give every day to others.

This is a review of its aquatics service and handling of my complaint by its management staff. <br>A particular lifeguard kept complaining that my 7 yr old son was splashing her in a very gruff and irritated manner. Mind you, he was the only one in the kiddie pool with me on two of these occasions and he was just swimming! He had just started learning how to swim and had pretty rough strokes still but certainly was not intentionally trying to splash anyone. I had also observed her yelling at other young children unnecessarily and acting like a "bully" of the pool. It is egregious to me that a swim staff would whine about incidentally getting some splashes of water by a kid just learning how to swim; isn't this just an occupational hazard? The manner in which she complained was even worse than the fact that she would complain about such a thing. Therefore, I wrote a letter of complaint to the management staff who basically responded that she acted appropriately. The management defended her behavior, even when she continued to harass (possibly because I wrote the letter of complaint) my son that he was splashing her while sitting a foot away from the edge of kiddie pool. What astounded me was the response of the JCC management including the CEO who saw no wrong in his staff. He had his COO call to tell me that I should try to see the swim guard's point of view along with a comment that I took away valuable time of her busy schedule to investigate. This kind of response is so out of line with a "family friendly" JCC that claims to be open to community at large. To make the matters worse, my son was "caught" peeing while showering in the poolside shower right next to a very cold bathroom. (He didn't want to go in the bathroom because it was too cold; I dealt with this privately immediately after the event.) That same lifeguard pointed fingers at my son and started lecturing at him right in front of me even after I acknowledged the incident. Even the CEO attempted to use the occasion to smear my son as if he deserved a public condemnation on his reply letter rather then address the issue of having an aquatics staff member who hates getting wet and yells at young children inappropriately. I was utterly disappointed by the negative atmosphere and worse response by the management staff after complaint was filed.