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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.…

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.…

Community Foundation hosts Philip Roth legacy gift

The Community Foundation of New Jersey is pleased to host part of acclaimed novelist Philip Roth’s legacy gift for the Newark Public Library, which is creating this unique literary destination in the heart of the city. As the Newark Public Library explains, “the Newark-born American writer Philip Roth left his entire personal library of approximately 7,000 volumes, books accumulated by him from 1950 to the present, to the Newark Public Library.”…

Welcoming our new grants processing and accounting team members

May 19, 2021 Spring as been busy this year at the Community Foundation! Not only have we welcomed new staff members to our team, but we also have fully re-opened our newly-renovated office in Morristown. We invite you to visit us at Knox Hill any time for a conversation about your fund, your philanthropic goals, your community’s needs, or just to say hello.…

Maslow Scholarship Accepting 2021 Applications

The Community Foundation of New Jersey today announced that The Jonathan Maslow Scholarship, which it administers on behalf of members of the Red Bank Regional High School (RBRHS) Class of 1966, is accepting applications for the Fall 2021 term. The Jonathan Maslow Scholarship is open to all RBRHS juniors and seniors who plan to continue their education at an accredited 2 or 4-year college immediately following their graduation.…

The Nicholas Ritchie Gottscho Fund

Nicholas Ritchie Gottscho, 50, of Bernardsville, NJ, and Timber Lakes, UT, passed away unexpectedly on March 26, 2022 in Provo, UT. Nick was an avid skier, entrepreneur, flashy dresser, food and music enthusiast, car collector, animal lover, and gardener. Above all, he was loyal and loving toward his family and friends.…

It’s Scholarship Season at the Community Foundation

If it’s almost Spring, then it’s “scholarship season” at the Community Foundation of New Jersey. This is the time when applications go live, students work with our staff to identify the right scholarship opportunities for them, and many donors open scholarship funds of their own.…