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Somerset Hills Community Health Foundation Pledges $300K to Family Caregivers

March 8, 2022 The Community Foundation of New Jersey today announced that the Somerset Hills Community Health Foundation (SHCHF) has committed $303,300 toward family caregivers in Morris, Somerset, and neighboring counties. Family caregivers, who are unpaid spouses, partners, family members, friends, or neighbors, often face unseen struggles and are underappreciated for their work in assisting others with the activities of daily living and medical tasks.…

Field Trip Grants Available to New Jersey Schools

We’re back! The Community Foundation of New Jersey today announced the Field Trip New Jersey Fund, which it founded in 2016 to provide opportunities for students in under-served communities to connect classroom learning with real-life experiences, is back for the 2021-2022 school year.…

New Jersey Consortium for Immigrant Children and Members Hail Nationally Pathbreaking $3 Million Program for New Jersey’s Unaccompanied Minors and Other Immigrant Youth

June 24, 2021 The New Jersey Consortium for Immigrant Children, of which the Community Foundation of New Jersey is a founding member, as well as Kids in Need of Defense, American Friends Service Committee, and Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Newark, applaud New Jersey lawmakers for creating New Jersey’s first-ever state-funded program to provide legal representation and case management to unaccompanied minors and similarly situated immigrant youth.…

South Jersey COVID-19 Response Fund Announces 5th Round of Grants

May 21, 2021 Community Foundation of South Jersey (CFSJ), has awarded a fifth round of grants from its COVID-19 Response Fund. Sixteen grants totaling $155,000 were awarded to South Jersey nonprofits meeting the needs of communities in Atlantic, Burlington, Camden, Cape May, Cumberland, Gloucester, Ocean, and Salem Counties.…

NJPRF and Overdeck Family Foundation Partner with TCNJ to Launch Summer Tutoring Corps Program to Tackle COVID-Related Learning Loss

April 19, 2021 To accelerate student learning and address COVID-related learning loss, the New Jersey Pandemic Relief Fund, in conjunction with Overdeck Family Foundation, announce that they’ve partnered with The College of New Jersey’s (TCNJ) School of Education to launch the NJ Summer Tutoring Corps Program in late June.…

Community Foundation Fundholders Give More than $87.5 Million in 2020

The Community Foundation of New Jersey (CFNJ) today thanked its 1,141 fundholders for making 8,300 philanthropic gifts to worthy causes and communities in 2020 totaling $87.5 million. The total dollar amount of grants is a record for the Community Foundation, following annual grantmaking of $57.8 million in 2019 and $66.6 million in 2018.…