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Recommendations for Giving Tuesday

If it has been your privilege to give more than you might otherwise this year (and by the looks of it, that is true of many fundholders!), it has been our privilege to steward that giving. Now it’s time for one more push. …

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.…

The Linda D. Murphy Village Strivers Scholarship Fund

The Linda D. Murphy Village Strivers Scholarship Fund is a fund at the Community Foundation of New Jersey, and as such your gift is fully tax deductible. The Community Foundation of New Jersey creates and scales custom solutions for purpose-driven individuals, families, and businesses.…

Dr. Crosby Copeland, Jr. Scholarship

The Dr. Crosby Copeland, Jr. Scholarship honors the legacy and accomplishments of Dr. Crosby Copeland, Jr. and his many years of dedication to the education of young people in the City of Trenton as a teacher, principal, and as Superintendent of the Trenton Public School District.…

Donating at year’s end? Keep these dates in mind.

For the Community Foundation of New Jersey, year-end is an intense period in which we facilitate a huge volume of grants from our very generous fundholders to the causes and charities they care about. To make this process run smoothly, we’d like to remind you of the following: If you need a grant made by December 31st of this year, we kindly ask you to initiate that grant by December 23rd.…

The CARES Act and Community: Three 2020 Upsides

Silver linings are hard to find this year, but it’s worth remembering that the CARES Act created important opportunities to increase giving to charitable causes. Keep these three tools in mind as you considering your year-end tax planning: Even for taxpayers who take the standard deduction, a reduction in adjusted gross income is available for charitable contributions up to $300 per taxpayer.…

James Moody Scholarship

James Moody felt that education was the key to everything, by providing opportunities for a better future. The James Moody Jazz Scholarship for New Jersey, is a $5,000 award, offered annually to an outstanding high school senior who embodies some of the qualities expressed by the NEA Jazz Master through his life and works: musicianship, creativity, leadership and community involvement.…

Impact 100 Garden State to host virtual panel on hunger in our communities

As the holidays approach, food drives remind the community that local families are struggling to afford meals. This year, however, the need is more acute than ever. In fact, the Community FoodBank of New Jersey has reported that the number of New Jerseyans struggling with hunger is projected to rise by 56% as a direct result of COVID-19, with every county in the state seeing a rise in food insecurity—including counties in northern New Jersey.…