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Hooey Scholarship for Chatham High School Open for 2020

January 8, 2020 The Community Foundation of New Jersey today announced that the Austin O. Hooey Scholarship is accepting applications for the Fall 2020 term. The Austin O. Hooey Scholarship Fund, which is administered by the Community Foundation, provides one or more college scholarship awards ranging from $5,000 to $10,000 per year for four consecutive years to one or more graduating senior(s) of Chatham High School.…

Visiting Nurse Association of Somerset Hills Establishes Foundation to Support Health and Wellness Initiatives

January 8, 2020 The Visiting Nurse Association of Somerset Hills (VNASH), a provider of home and community-based healthcare services, has established the Somerset Hills Community Health Foundation (SHCHF), a donor advised fund with the Community Foundation of New Jersey (CFNJ).  The creation of this foundation coincides with the announcement that VNASH recently joined the Atlantic Health System family to form Atlantic Visiting Nurse.…

Our Take on What Comes After Giving Tuesday

This year’s Giving Tuesday – the global day of giving that likely flooded your Inbox with appeals – was a record-breaker, with nonprofit organizations raising a total of nearly $2 billion. Roughly $511 million of that came from online donations, many of them generated on social media platforms.…

Impact100 Essex Announces Four Grant Finalists

Our friends at Impact100 Essex, a women’s giving circle we are pleased to host, today announced the four finalists for this year’s Impact100 Essex grant award. One of these finalists will be voted the recipient of a $120,000 grant during Impact100 Essex’s Annual Meeting to be held on January 21, 2020 at Seton Hall University in South Orange.…

Our Take on Giving Tuesday

Tuesday, December 3rd is Giving Tuesday, a global day of giving that harnesses the collective power of individuals, communities, and organizations to encourage charitable giving worldwide. Here in New Jersey, we’d like to celebrate the work of our four Impact 100 partners who represent more than 1,000 women who have collectively given nearly $3.5 million to nonprofit organizations across our state – so far!…

Impact 100 Jersey Coast Awards Four $110,000 Grants

November 26, 2019 Asbury Park Music Foundation, Clean Ocean Action, Court Appointed Special Advocates of Monmouth County (CASA), and St. Marks Center for Community Renewal were the four recipients of $110,000 grants each announced at Impact 100 Jersey Coast’s Annual Meeting on November 19th at Ocean Place Resort in Long Branch.…

Our Take on the “Trust Gap”

It’s the most important part a philanthropic legacy. No matter how a bequest is structured, regardless of its philanthropic intent, and separate from its time horizon there’s the issue of trust. For your philanthropy to live on after you’re gone, you have to trust someone.…

Update from Refugee Assistance Morris Partners

On Nov. 8, 2016, eight-year-old Lona arrived at Newark Airport with her parents and two brothers. They came on a long flight from Turkey, having fled their war-ravaged home in Aleppo, Syria. Lona had no idea what to expect in her strange new land, but she was comforted by the warm welcome from volunteers from Refugee Assistance Morris Partners (RAMP), a special project fund at the Community Foundation of New Jersey.…

Our Take on Giving USA’s “Leaving a Legacy” Report

November 13, 2019 Philanthropic-minded individuals write their first will on average when they are 44 years old and almost all (91.6%) use a legal advisor to help them.  That’s according to our friends at Giving USA who just released findings from their survey of 860 donors interested in planned giving.…

Impact 100 Garden State Announces 2019 Grant Recipients

November 7, 2019 At their Annual Awards Meeting Wednesday night, the members of Impact 100 Garden State voted to award three $110,000 grants to the following recipients and their programs: County College of Morris Foundation – Dover College Promise CUMAC – Beyond Hunger Union County Economic Development Corp.…