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Providing Quality Healthcare for the Uninsured through Volunteer Clinics

On the Road with CFNJ On the Road with CFNJ aims to highlight critical issues facing communities in New Jersey and introduce some of the good people doing great work across the state.  Week in and week out, members of the CFNJ grantmaking and program teams are fortunate to meet nonprofit leaders and their colleagues who are putting out tremendous energy, resourcefulness and care in the work they do to make New Jersey a better place for all. …

Morristown Festival of Books returns October 12-13, 2018

July 30, 2018 The popular Morristown Festival of Books will return on Friday, October 12th and Saturday, October 13th this year. Modeled after successful book festivals in other communities throughout the world, the Morristown Festival of Books brings together acclaimed authors with readers and book lovers.…

Interventions that work: Double Up Food Bucks

July 23, 2018 At the Community Foundation of New Jersey, we love connecting our fundholders to philanthropic interventions that work. That they are typically also unique, innovative, low-cost, and inspiring only makes the philanthropic investment more meaningful. Recently, our Leadership Committee identified an opportunity for fundholders and other charity-minded New Jerseyans to increase access to healthy foods in those urban areas where it is woefully lacking.…

BD Collaborates with Community Foundation of New Jersey to Issue $2 million in Grants to Support Puerto Rico Employees Affected by Hurricane Maria

In the aftermath of Hurricane Maria, the Community Foundation of New Jersey collaborated with two New Jersey-based international companies, BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company) and C. R. Bard, Inc., to create employee crisis funds as an additional measure to provide relief to the companies’ Puerto Rico employees affected by the natural disaster.…

David S. Zocchi Brain Tumor Fund/Camp Jinka

Thank you for your support of the David S. Zocchi Brain Tumor Fund and Camp Jinka. 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…

Impact 100 Garden State

Impact100 Garden State is a group of philanthropic women who collectively fund high-impact grants that help those in need in Morris, Passaic, Somerset, Sussex, and Union counties. The grants are provided to nonprofit organizations that complete a rigorous application process and are selected through a membership vote.…

Ports America Employee Crisis Fund

The Ports America Employee Crisis Fund provides short-term, emergency support for basic necessities to employees or eligible dependents who are experiencing a financial hardship resulting from a sudden, severe, overwhelming and unexpected event that is beyond their control.  The event results in significant pressure on the family’s financial resources. …

How to Help Unaccompanied Immigrant Children in New Jersey

June 22, 2018 The treatment of children entering the United States at the southern border has dominated the news in recent weeks, with debate around their future reaching a fever pitch. A number of our fundholders have asked how they can use their fund to be helpful so we wanted to share the impact this issue is having in New Jersey.…

Red Bank High Student Wins 2018 Writing Scholarship

June 21, 2018 The Selection Committee of The Jonathan Maslow Scholarship today announced the recipient of its 2018 scholarship award. Willow Martin, a graduating senior at Red Bank Regional High School (RBRHS), will receive a scholarship in the amount of $5,000.…