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‘Impact 100’ Women’s Giving Circles Donate $3.48 Million to NJ Nonprofits

January 24, 2020 The Community Foundation of New Jersey (CFNJ) today announced that more than 1,100 New Jersey women have joined one of the four women’s giving circles the Foundation hosts and have made nearly $3.5 million in philanthropic gifts to date.…

Leader of Community Foundation of New Jersey to be speaker at meeting of Refugee Assistance Morris Partners Jan. 28

January 14, 2020 Hans Dekker, president and CEO of Community Foundation of New Jersey (CFNJ) will be the featured speaker at the membership meeting of Refugee Assistance Morris Partners (RAMP) at 7:00 p.m., Tuesday, January 28, at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 37 Hillview Ave.,…

Impact100 South Jersey to Award $186,000 in Grants to Local Nonprofits

January 13, 2020 Impact100 South Jersey announced that it will award $186,000 in grants to local nonprofits as a result of it’s fall 2019 collective giving membership drive. Members gathered at Maggiano’s Little Italy in Cherry Hill on Wednesday, Jan 8th for the Big Reveal and celebration. …

Impact 100 Garden State to Host Lunch at Seasons 52

January 13, 2020 Impact 100 Garden State is hosting a Meet & Mingle lunch for prospective members in the Napa Room at Seasons 52, 410 Commons Way in Bridgewater on Wednesday, January 22, 2020 from 12 noon to 2 pm. Any woman interested in learning about membership in Impact 100 is invited to attend.…

Hooey Scholarship for Chatham High School Open for 2020

January 8, 2020 The Community Foundation of New Jersey today announced that the Austin O. Hooey Scholarship is accepting applications for the Fall 2020 term. The Austin O. Hooey Scholarship Fund, which is administered by the Community Foundation, provides one or more college scholarship awards ranging from $5,000 to $10,000 per year for four consecutive years to one or more graduating senior(s) of Chatham High School.…

Visiting Nurse Association of Somerset Hills Establishes Foundation to Support Health and Wellness Initiatives

January 8, 2020 The Visiting Nurse Association of Somerset Hills (VNASH), a provider of home and community-based healthcare services, has established the Somerset Hills Community Health Foundation (SHCHF), a donor advised fund with the Community Foundation of New Jersey (CFNJ). The creation of this foundation coincides with the announcement that VNASH recently joined the Atlantic Health System family to form Atlantic Visiting Nurse.…

Joseph and Lucy DePalma Memorial Fund

Thank you for considering a gift to the Joseph and Lucy DePalma Memorial Fund. 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…

Morristown Festival of Books

In 2014, the Morristown Festival of Books (MFOB) was launched to celebrate the power of the written word. MFOB has welcomed hundreds of highly engaging authors to Morristown — including Pulitzer Prize winners, National Book Award winners, Newbery and Caldecott medalists, and New York Times bestsellers.…

Joan Bruno Endangered Wildlife Protection Fund

Some of the most incredible experiences of my lifetime included up close and personal experiences with threatened and endangered wildlife. These life changing experiences included gorilla trekking in Rwanda and Uganda, photographing emperor penguins on the pack ice in Antarctica, and close encounters with elephants on numerous safaris in Africa.…

Our Take on What Comes After Giving Tuesday

This year’s Giving Tuesday – the global day of giving that likely flooded your Inbox with appeals – was a record-breaker, with nonprofit organizations raising a total of nearly $2 billion. Roughly $511 million of that came from online donations, many of them generated on social media platforms.…

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