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Adam O’Brien Recovery Foundation Fund

For Gail O’Brien, a fundholder at the Community Foundation of New Jersey, the fight against substance abuse is top of mind at morning, noon, and night. As the founder of the Parents Coalition for Substance Abuse Awareness (PCSAA) and a member of The Adam O’Brien Recovery Foundation, Gail has raised funds and provided support for countless young adults in New Jersey seeking detox, treatment, and sober living homes.…

Community Foundation of New Jersey Commits $100,000 to Census 2020 Efforts

March 3, 2020 The Community Foundation of New Jersey today announced it has contributed $80,000 toward a pooled fund focused on ensuring an accurate and complete census count in New Jersey in 2020. This follows a $20,000 grant the Community Foundation made to the Paterson Alliance in 2019 to help in creating an effective task force to ensure all Paterson residents are counted in the 2020 Census.…

Welcoming the Ruth Gottscho Kidney Foundation

March 3, 2020 Please join us in welcoming The Ruth Gottscho Kidney Foundation as an affiliated fund of the Community Foundation of New Jersey! Through this new partnership, The Ruth Gottscho Kidney Foundation will utilize the grantmaking and administrative support services of CFNJ, thus obviating the need for its own staff and enabling the Foundation to focus on what it does best: to make the dream of summer camp a reality for children with kidney disorders.…

Impact 100 Garden State Announces 2020 Membership Results

February 20, 2020 Impact 100 Garden State celebrated it’s 2020 membership drive on Wednesday February 19, 2020 at the Grain House in Basking Ridge by announcing a total of 341 members, resulting in $341,000 grants to be awarded to area nonprofit organizations at its Annual Awards Meeting on June 17, 2020.…

Daniel J. Wilcox Camp Hope Fund

Please help us send children of domestic violence to Daniel J. Wilcox Camp Hope this summer. Your donation is greatly appreciated!!! ~ The Wilcox Family   var url = 'https://host.nxt.blackbaud.com/donor-form?formId=16ce6dba-f2da-494c-9f18-78a0c002cb12&envid=p-leIRqP6_lUKw0UBuwr8O7w'; var iframe = document.getElementById('form-16ce6dba-f2da-494c-9f18-78a0c002cb12'); var bbemlParser = new RegExp('[?&]bbeml=([^&#]*)').exec(document.location.search); var bbeml = bbemlParser ?…

A Gathering of Givers: Elevating and Empowering Women’s Voices

A Gathering of Givers: Elevating and Empowering Women’s Voices Friday, March 6, 8:30-11:30AM NJPAC, One Center Street, Newark, NJ Tickets $20 As women, we use our voices to elevate and transform our communities, our state, and our nation.  One hundred years after women first won the right to vote, and in celebration of International Women’s Day 2020, we will come together as a Gathering of Givers once more to hear women’s powerful voices as they shape all aspects of our collective lives:  through awe-inspiring artistic expression, increasing political representation and power, transformative social service to others, through education opportunities and economic empowerment, and as crafters of the written and spoken word.…

James H. Lynch Jr Memorial Scholarship Fund

Thank you for donating to the James H. Lynch Jr Memorial Scholarship Fund. The James H. Lynch Jr Memorial Scholarship Fund is part of the Community Foundation of New Jersey, and as such your gift is fully tax deductible. 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…

Thoughts on Giving Circles in the Workplace

The median contribution made by individuals in workplace giving campaigns declined by 10 percent from 2016 to 2018, according to a report from Chief Executives for Corporate Purpose. This coincides, says the Chronicle of Philanthropy, with an increase in the philanthropic choices for employees – from matching contributions to paid time off and new online giving platforms that pop up every day.…