Charity
A portion of all proceeds from the festival are donated to the Children's Miracle Network, which funds three pediatric hospitals in New Jersey. In 2006, more than $150,000 was raised by the festival for local charities bringing the total contribution for the 13 years of Freeman and Korff's management to over $1.25 million.
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Famous quotes containing the word charity:
“How much methinks, I could despise this man,
But that I am bound in charity against it.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“With a smile of Christian charity great Casey’s visage shone;
He stilled the rising tumult, he made the game go on;”
—Ernest Lawrence Thayer (1863–1940)