Author Archives: Mike

Thank you, Margarethe Laurenzi

September 30, 2021 Earlier this month, the Community Foundation learned that our friend and colleague Margarethe Laurenzi will be leaving the Foundation to become the Executive Director of the Maher Charitable Foundation. While we are sad to see Margarethe go, we are enormously grateful for the impact she has achieved on our fundholders’ behalf.…

ROI-NJ: Philanthropy boosts bottom line, other benefits

September 23, 2021 Did you catch our piece in ROI-NJ? It’s worth a read: In more than 40 years of working with New Jersey businesses — from Prudential, Public Service Enterprise Group, Wakefern Food Corp., and Johnson & Johnson to a host of mid-market companies — the Community Foundation of New Jersey has seen how businesses can drive meaningful change in our state while improving the bottom line.…

Field Trip Grants Available to New Jersey Schools

We’re back! The Community Foundation of New Jersey today announced the Field Trip New Jersey Fund, which it founded in 2016 to provide opportunities for students in under-served communities to connect classroom learning with real-life experiences, is back for the 2021-2022 school year.…

Direct relief for Afghanistan & Haiti

The unfolding humanitarian crises in Afghanistan and Haiti have been top of mind for many fundholders at the Community Foundation of New Jersey. Distinct and complex in their own rights, these two tragedies present an urgent need. We are pleased to share the giving opportunities we have vetted for impact and have been sharing with interested fundholders.…

Joseph D. Callahan-Ferratti Fund

Born in Morristown, NJ, Joe graduated from New Providence High School in 2012, and went on to Union County Vocational-Technical School where he received a degree in Electrical Technology. For the past three years, Joe lived in Delray Beach, Florida where he worked as an HVAC Technician for Jones AC.…

Automotive scholarship available to Sussex, Morris vocational students

July 21, 2021 The Community Foundation of New Jersey is pleased to announce it is accepting applications for the newest scholarship it manages on behalf of a philanthropic New Jersey family, the Alatary Memorial Scholarship. The scholarship is intended to provide support to recent high school graduates, GED certificate holders, or adult learners with some work experience who wish to pursue two-year or less vocational/technical studies at an accredited community college in Morris or Sussex County, New Jersey, with preference given to the automotive technology field.…

Wiley statue evokes warm memories on hot day in Morristown

Thank you to our friends at MorristownGreen for their coverage of the Steve Wiley statue unveiling on Satrday, July 10th. It is our privilege to have helped steward this gift in tribute of a true community trailblazer.   From the MorristownGreen: Channeling his late mentor, Sendell led a Community Foundation of New Jersey campaign that raised $140,000 for the life-sized bronze likeness of Wiley, a lawyer, businessman, politician, philanthropist and poet who died in 2015 at age 86.…

New Jersey Consortium for Immigrant Children and Members Hail Nationally Pathbreaking $3 Million Program for New Jersey’s Unaccompanied Minors and Other Immigrant Youth

June 24, 2021 The New Jersey Consortium for Immigrant Children, of which the Community Foundation of New Jersey is a founding member, as well as Kids in Need of Defense, American Friends Service Committee, and Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Newark, applaud New Jersey lawmakers for creating New Jersey’s first-ever state-funded program to provide legal representation and case management to unaccompanied minors and similarly situated immigrant youth.…

Youth Mental Health Advocates at the New Jersey Senate Highlight the Costs of Excluding Undocumented Children from Insurance

June 11, 2021 The New Jersey Consortium for Immigrant Children, of which the Community Foundation of New Jersey is a founding member, yesterday welcomed the commitment of State Senator Joseph Vitale and other legislators to expanding insurance to undocumented children, and applauded its youth leaders, members, and coalition partners who testified as S3798 was voted out of the Senate Health, Human Services and Senior Citizens Committee.…