Welcome to Neighbor In Need

Neighbor in Need has been serving the 19067 Bucks County community and the Pennsbury School District since its founding in 2017 by Liz Kearney and Wendy Jacobson-Simon.

In 2019, NIN registered as a Domestic Nonprofit corporation (nonprofit community group) in the state of PA.

Its mission is to help people within our community who need short-term support. Our members are local residents that have come together to help people in need in our 19067 Bucks County community.

NIN is able to provide to their community by:

• Directly soliciting donations, in kind donations, gift cards from its members.
• Partnering with area business, religious institutions, and service organizations.
• Partnering with Pennsbury School District social workers who identify students in need.

Accomplishments of Neighbor In Need

• Established a food pantry at Manor Elementary School in 2021. The pantry provides food weekly to 44 Pennsbury families which helps hundreds of students.

• Helped many families who suffered the loss of a loved one, loss of home or job, seniors that needed assistance, family members recovering from illness / surgery as well as helping several local food banks and Bucks County emergency homeless services.
  

In the last quarter of 2023 Neighbor in Need has followed its mission to help the community. Here are some of our accomplishments:

1. Provided gifts for 48 families, 142 children total 
2. Provided 38 moms with gift cards and gifts
3. Provided over 200 toys to Family Services
4. Provided over 100 toys to TASK and 100 stockings to TASK
5. Provided 20 gifts for teens to Children without parents
6. Provided Fostering Hope with Formula, diapers, and wipes for those in need
7. Provided meals for 14 families from our amazing restaurant partners
8. Provided Saint Christoper's Cares with approximately 100 toys
9. Helped a senior couple with groceries and expenses
10. Helped a wonderful family with a terminally-ill young child have a meal and gifts for Christmas
11. Covered Pennsbury with an additional $3600 of target gift cards to cover the remainder of students not covered
12. Provided Shop With a Cop with a ton of wrapping paper to help their drive
13. Immediately helped a mom escape domestic violence
14. Provided Manor Elementary with over 500 pounds of food
15. Provided 24 students with new warm winter jackets (through Saint John's and The Knights of Columbus
16. Provided the homeless with over 50 new winter coats
17. Provided the homeless with over 100 pairs of socks, hats, gloves, and scarves
18. Distribute over 400 pairs of pajamas to CHOP, Fostering Hope, Pennsbury kids and Ronald McDonald House due to the magic of **** and Saint Ignatius
19. Provide a family of 4 from Edgewood and Boehm schools whose mother is in the hospital with meals and gift cards.
20. Provided 45 Pennsbury families with Thanksgiving dinner.
21. Contributed to a GoFundMe campaign and provided Target gift cards for families in the Maplevale neighborhood whose properties and homes were flooded.

In 2024 so far, NIN has:

1. Helped a family who lost their home and possessions to fire on New Year's Eve: provided over $1,000 in gift cards, restaurant cards and new clothing, pajamas and games / Legos and art supplies for the boys. We also replaced many of their holiday gifts.
2. Coming up is our NIN Girls Night Out on April 19th. ALL proceeds will benefit food insecurity in our community and Pennsbury School District. We expect to fill the house at St. Ignatius Church. Almost all of the 200 tickets were sold.

Awarded Best Nonprofit in Bucks County