Trenton After School Program - Student Testimonial

I saw how much this program guided me throughout life and showed me that education is the key that opens all doors, and I was inspired. Today, because of the Trenton After School Program, I stand before you a college graduate and an elementary school teacher. I am an advocate of the Trenton After School Program and as long as God allows me, I will continue to be a part of the program in anyway possible.

I look at my peers that went to the program, and I compare those to my peers that did not attend the program, and I notice a vast difference in their lives. TASP students are college bound, more adept to deal with the stresses of everyday life, and productive citizens of the community. I am the end result of the first class of the Trenton After School Program, and from that class resulted teachers, medical assistants, state workers, etc. And each year since then, the program has touched the lives of hundreds of children. I foresee future doctors, lawyers, nurses, accountants, investment bankers, entrepreneurs, pilots, military officials, and most importantly well-rounded adults who have been touched by a program that was started by two churches in Princeton New Jersey.

I thank God for giving you the vision to plant a seed in Trenton each year where a garden of 75 flowers of different types with different needs can be weeded, watered, and nurtured until they can flourish and grow into adulthood. As the old saying goes, it takes a village to raise a child, and our village extends all the way to Princeton, New Jersey.

Again I would like to thank you for your generosity and for your obedience to adhere to God’s calling of setting up a program that enables students to succeed academically and socially, and for a program where the love of God can be seen and felt. I am able to stand before you today as the woman that I am because you cared and for that I will be eternally grateful.

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Board Members

The Rev. Dr. David Davis Nassau Presbyterian Church The Rev. Anne Marie Richards Trinity Episcopal Church Jane Holmquist Co-Chair Anne Russell Co-Chair Jock McFarlane Treasurer Dana Klinges Recording Secretary	Tina Blackledge Executive Director The Rev. Dr. Catherine Cook Davis Nixon Grant Maria Newman Roxanne Pintella Michael Unger Pamela Washington
The TASP Board is composed of members of Trinity Episcopal Church, Nassau Presbyterian Church, parents of TASP students, and community members.

Thank You to Our Major Contributors

Trinity Episcopal Church, Princeton* Nassau Presbyterian Church* St. Matthew Episcopal Church, Pennington Bank of America Exxon-Mobil American Gift Fund Office Depot Bristol-Myers Squibb Princeton Area Community Foundation Tiger Woods Foundation The Curtis W. McGraw Foundation The Corella and Bertram F. Bonner Foundation AmeriCorps Rosie’s All for Kids Foundation	Church & Dwight Employee Giving Fund Horizon Foundation Harbourton Foundation City of Trenton Robert Wood Johnson 1962 Charitable Trust Dow Jones Foundation Janssen Foundation Colgate-Palmolive Mercer County The James Kerney Foundation The Mary Owen Borden Foundation McCarter Theatre and individual contributors
*founding churches