January 21, 2019 Impact 100 Garden State is a simple concept: one woman, one donation, one vote. Women work together to provide transformative grants to local non-profits in Morris, Passaic, Somerset, Sussex, and Union counties. Each member donates $1000 a…
January 18, 2018 The Community Foundation of New Jersey (CFNJ) today announced that Dawn Lauer of MWWPR and Michael Murphy, former Morris County Prosecutor and co-founder of Impact NJ, have joined its Board of Trustees. As Executive Vice President and…
The Community Foundation of New Jersey (CFNJ) today thanked its more than 1,100 fundholders for recommending a record 7,722 individual grants in 2018 totaling $66.7 million. This figure represents a $17 million increase in dollars going to worthy causes as…
In the aftermath of Hurricane Maria, the Community Foundation of New Jersey collaborated with two New Jersey-based international companies, BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company) and C. R. Bard, Inc., to create employee crisis funds as an additional measure to provide…
June 21, 2018 The Selection Committee of The Jonathan Maslow Scholarship today announced the recipient of its 2018 scholarship award. Willow Martin, a graduating senior at Red Bank Regional High School (RBRHS), will receive a scholarship in the amount of…
May 31, 2018 The Community Foundation of New Jersey’s (CFNJ) strong financial health and commitment to accountability and transparency have earned it a 4-star rating from Charity Navigator, America’s largest independent charity evaluator. This is the eight consecutive year that…
May 24, 2018 New Jersey First Lady Tammy Snyder Murphy on Monday spoke to a luncheon of women affiliated with the Community Foundation of New Jersey (CFNJ) about women’s changing role in philanthropy. The discussion at the Reeves-Reed Arboretum in…
State of New Jersey press release, May 4, 2015 Advancing his commitment to make local governments work smarter and more efficiently, Governor Phil Murphy today named Nicolas W. Platt, former Mayor of Harding Township, and Jordan Glatt, former Mayor of…
February 1, 2018 The Community Foundation of New Jersey today thanked its more than 1,000 fundholders for new philanthropic gifts to CFNJ totaling $78.5 million in 2017. CFNJ currently stewards roughly $500 million in charitable assets, making grants to nonprofit…
December 14, 2017 The Community Foundation of New Jersey today announced that the Honorable Ann P. Conti Scholarship is accepting applications for the Fall 2018 term. The merit scholarship will award $2,500 to a Union County resident attending a New…