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The National Council for Mental Wellbeing Will Provide Free Mental Health Training to 6,300 New Jersey Teens

November 17, 2021 Dozens of schools and youth-serving organizations throughout New Jersey will provide free teen Mental Health First Aid (tMHFA) training to the youth they serve through an innovative grant program established by the National Council for Mental Wellbeing in partnership with Born This Way Foundation.…

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.…

PSEG’s Tamara Linde Becomes Community Foundation Board Chair

The Community Foundation of New Jersey (CFNJ) today announced that Tamara Linde, executive vice president and general counsel for Public Service Enterprise Group Incorporated (PSEG) and its subsidiaries, has been selected as the new Chair of its Board of Trustees. Ms.…

Interfaith Food Pantry Network Serves 26%, More Morris County Families This Year, Thanks to Refrigerated Van

During the COVID-19 pandemic, more people in Morris County need food than ever before—and too many also lack a way to get to food distribution sites. The Interfaith Food Pantry Network (IFPN), which provides emergency and supplemental groceries to Morris County residents in need, has been riding to the rescue in its Healthy Choices Mobile Food Pantry.…

Impact 100 Garden State to host virtual event that will change the way you taste wine

Pour a glass of your favorite wine and learn how to use all your senses to detect the stories it can tell. “How to Truly Taste Wine,” a virtual event featuring Bianca Bosker, author of the New York Times bestseller Cork Dork, will be held on Tuesday, December 8, from 7 to 8 p.m.…

3,200 New Winter Coats Distributed to Kids through the South Jersey Funder Collaborative’s “Operation Warm Up Jersey Shore” in Partnership with Fulfill, Better Education for Kids, Inc., and Operation Warm

This winter, 3,200 children in Monmouth and Ocean Counties will be wearing new warm winter coats funded by and distributed through the South Jersey Funder Collaborative’s “Operation Warm Up Jersey Shore” held in partnership with Fulfill, Operation Warm and Better Education for Kids.…