April 11, 2018 Impact 100 Jersey Coast, a women’s philanthropic group that collectively funds high-impact grants to qualified nonprofits in Monmouth County, has announced they will award three grants, each for $112,000 in 2018. Since its inception in 2015, the…
April 13, 2018 Karen Therrien was not your typical high school student. “Her classmates [would] speak of her in awed, hushed tones – not from fear but from authentic respect and admiration,” her guidance counselor wrote in 2016. And it…
April 9, 2018 Impact 100 Garden State, a six-year-old local women’s philanthropic organization, has announced that in November, 2018, it will award three $100,000 grants to nonprofit organizations that serve residents of Morris, Somerset, Passaic and Sussex Counties. Nonprofit applicants…
March 26, 2018 Among the hundreds of thousands who traveled to Washington, DC for Saturday’s ‘March for Our Lives’ protest were students from several Newark high schools. “There’s a great energy around here,” one student from St. Benedict’s Prep told…
March 22, 2018 Our friends and partners in the New Jersey Coalition Against Human Trafficking have worked long and hard in support of legislation to penalize those who have enabled the exponential growth of human trafficking in the United States…
March 19, 2018 Hans Dekker in NJ Spotlight We have a long and rich history of philanthropic giving, but new data shows New Jersey falling to last place among wealthy states for giving While a state income tax deduction for…
Below are remarks from Margarethe Laurenzi, the Community Foundation’s Director of Leadership Grantmaking & Engagement, at Bell Works’ International Women’s Day forum on March 8, 2018. I’m delighted to be here with you on International Women’s Day to celebrate…
March 2, 2018 In the aftermath of Hurricane Maria – the worst natural disaster to hit Puerto Rico – New Jersey-based medical technology company BD created an employee assistance fund at the Community Foundation of New Jersey to provide quick,…
February 21, 2018 For Melanie Tanis, there has always been one goal: to someday become a nurse. Well, sort of. As Melanie explained in her scholarship application to the Community Foundation of New Jersey, “a nurse is a person dedicated…
February 12, 2018 As part of their 10-Year Anniversary celebration, our friends at the Partners for Health Foundation will recognize people and individuals who have made extraordinary contributions to health and well-being in their 15 service area communities. Up to…