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Impact 100 Garden State Announces 2019 Grant Information Sessions

February 15, 2019 Our friends and partners at Impact 100 Garden State have announced the below grant information sessions in communities across northern New Jersey. According to Impact 100 Garden State, “our new session, Application 101 – where we will review how we read and evaluate applications – might be a good option for those who have attended a session in the past.”…

Focus on Hunger & Homelessness in Mercer County

February 6, 2019 The Community Foundation of New Jersey and many local nonprofits always make a big push to support food banks, food pantries, and other food security organizations around the holidays – but the truth is, hunger is present in our communities twelve months of the year.…

Update on Double Up Food Bucks in New Jersey

February 4, 2019 We told you last year about our partnership with the national nonprofit Fair Food Network to bring its Double Up Food Bucks healthy food incentive program to New Jersey. In 25 other states already, Double Up Food Bucks matches the value of NJ SNAP dollars spent on fresh fruits and vegetables, helping low-income families bring home more nutritious foods.…

CFNJ’s Jordan Glatt joins Great Swamp Watershed Association board

January 26, 2019 We are pleased to share that our own Jordan Glatt has recently joined the Great Swamp Watershed Association’s Board of Trustees. The Great Swamp Watershed Association (GSWA) is dedicated to protecting and improving the water resources of the Passaic River region, from the Great Swamp headwaters to Newark Bay, for present and future generations.…

Honoring a great New Jersey philanthropist

January 25, 2019 The Community Foundation of New Jersey salutes Walter Shipley for his decades of effective philanthropy across our state and beyond, and we extend our condolences to the Shipley family on Walter’s recent passing. Walter Shipley was the former Chairman and CEO of both Chase Manhattan Bank and Chemical Bank .…

A “Gift” to Give to the Hungry

January 24, 2019 At a certain point in many relationships, the gift-giving gets a bit stale. There are only so many bouquets of flowers or pairs of socks we can give before the charm wears off. It’s why so many people are thinking differently about gift-giving, preferring experiences over things.…

MWWPR’s Dawn Lauer, Impact NJ’s Michael Murphy Join Community Foundation Board

January 18, 2019 The Community Foundation of New Jersey (CFNJ) today announced that Dawn Lauer of MWWPR and Michael Murphy, former Morris County Prosecutor and co-founder of Impact NJ, have joined its Board of Trustees. As Executive Vice President and Managing Director of B2B Communications at MWWPR, Dawn Lauer has built the agency’s Business to Business practice from the ground up and today oversees strategic programming for a range of public, private and not-for profit clients across all aspects of brand building.…

Community Foundation Grantmaking Way Up for 2018, Tops $66 million

The Community Foundation of New Jersey (CFNJ) today thanked its more than 1,100 fundholders for recommending a record 7,722 individual grants in 2018 totaling $66.7 million. This figure represents a $17 million increase in dollars going to worthy causes as compared to last year’s total of $49.5 million from 6,515 grants.…

Hooey Scholarship for Chatham High School Grads Now Open

January 3, 2019 The Community Foundation of New Jersey today announced that the Austin O. Hooey Scholarship is accepting applications for the Fall 2019 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.…