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The Nicholas Ritchie Gottscho Fund

Nicholas Ritchie Gottscho, 50, of Bernardsville, NJ, and Timber Lakes, UT, passed away unexpectedly on March 26, 2022 in Provo, UT. Nick was an avid skier, entrepreneur, flashy dresser, food and music enthusiast, car collector, animal lover, and gardener. Above all, he was loyal and loving toward his family and friends.…

The Kevin Bisgrove Holdefehr Memorial Fund

A cash gift made with a credit card, check, or wire transfer is the simplest way to give to the Kevin Bisgrove Holdefehr Memorial Fund, a fund at the Community Foundation of New Jersey. Click here to donate online.   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: Hans Dekker at (973) 267-5533 or hdekker@cfnj.org…

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.…

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.…

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.…