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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.…

A Gathering of Givers: Reshaping our Communities and our World

Monday, March 8, 2021 @ 7:00pm As we begin to imagine our lives after the pandemic, we know that women’s needs and choices will be critical to how the world evolves. Will the millions of women who left the workforce last year rejoin it?…

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.…

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.…

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.…

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.…

A treat to boost 2021: Congress extends charitable giving incentives

As you reboot after 2020, now is a great time to consider your charitable giving plans for 2021. COVID-19 has proven to be a marathon, not a sprint. Nonprofit organizations will be relying on the generosity of donors for the foreseeable future to stay afloat and serve the people who need their programs.…

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.…

Bay Head Yacht Club Preservation Fund

The Bay Head Yacht Club Preservation Fund exists to preserve the history of this unique community gem. Click here to give. Additionally, cash contributions may be made by check payable and mailed to: Community Foundation of New Jersey Post Office Box 338 Morristown, New Jersey 07963-0338 For wiring instructions for cash contributions, please contact: Lydia Gracey at (973) 267-5533 or lgracey@cfnj.org…

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.…

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