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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.…

Tapping Philanthropy’s COVID-Era Spike for Long-Term Priorities

The year 2020 was, in a word, volatile. The back and forth among political partisans on foundational issues such as equity, expression, and race marked a volatile year in our civic squares. The ups and downs in the market, interest rates, and unemployment marked an historically volatile year for the American economy.…

Guidelines for Renewable Scholarships

Guidelines for Scholarships with 4 Installments Fall semester of each year Please note that it is the student’s responsibility to provide the following information to the Foundation by July 15th of each year. Reminder notices are not sent out. Future installments are contingent upon the following: Student remains enrolled on a full time basis in a college or university within the United States.…

Rolling over an IRA to support the causes you care about

December 10, 2020 Individuals 70.5 years of age and older may transfer up to $100,000 of IRA assets per year to public charities without being subject to federal income taxes on the distribution. Using your IRA in partnership with the Community Foundation is a great way to support the causes and organizations you care about.…

Recommendations for Giving Tuesday

If it has been your privilege to give more than you might otherwise this year (and by the looks of it, that is true of many fundholders!), it has been our privilege to steward that giving. Now it’s time for one more push. …

Donating at year’s end? Keep these dates in mind.

For the Community Foundation of New Jersey, year-end is an intense period in which we facilitate a huge volume of grants from our very generous fundholders to the causes and charities they care about. To make this process run smoothly, we’d like to remind you of the following: If you need a grant made by December 31st of this year, we kindly ask you to initiate that grant by December 23rd.…