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New Jersey Earns Perfect Score for Trafficking Laws

September 17, 2014 Polaris today released its State Ratings on Human Trafficking Laws and there is good news for New Jersey. Scroll down to learn more, or click here for the full report. The ratings of all 50 states and the District of Columbia are based on 10 categories of laws that are critical to a basic legal framework that combats human trafficking, punishes traffickers and supports survivors.…

Community Foundation Celebrates 227 Students Receiving Donor Scholarships in 2014

September 12, 2014 The Community Foundation today proudly congratulated the 227 students receiving scholarships this year from funds created by donors and administered by the Foundation. More than $1.4 million in scholarship dollars were distributed this fall – ranging from one-time awards to multi-year – making 2014 yet another year in which the Community Foundation distributed more than $1 million in scholarship dollars.…

Impact 100 Names Nonprofit Finalists For $185,000 in Grants

September 10, 2014 Impact 100 Garden State, a philanthropic women’s organization for which the Community Foundation of New Jersey provides extensive administrative support, has selected nine nonprofit organizations as finalists for $185,000 in grants it will award in October. Impact 100 invited applications from nonprofits in Morris, Passaic, Somerset, and Sussex counties that were in search of funds for transformative programs aimed at helping their local communities and improving the quality of life for people in these counties.  …

Pet Therapy Program at Morristown Medical Center

August 18, 2014 Unconditional love has the power to heal, to strengthen, and to capture our hearts. The kind of love only animals can give. Just ask the thousands of patients at Morristown Medical Center who’ve participated in the hospital’s Pet Therapy Program.…

CFNJ Sends Best Wishes to Hunt Scholarship Recipient

August 18, 2014 The Community Foundation of New Jersey sends best wishes to Raina Dhir, recipient of the J. Oscar and Florence Hunt Scholarship, as she enters her senior year at the University of Pennsylvania.  Raina is majoring in Bioengineering with minors in Asian American Studies and Engineering Entrepreneurship. …

Nepal Floods: How to Help

August 17, 2014 Monsoon rains triggered flash floods across Nepal this week, sweeping away several villages and contributing to a rising death toll. Many of our donors have expressed an interest in helping those impacted by the flooding, all thanks to a special relationship the Community Foundation of New Jersey has with the Kopila Valley School in Nepal’s Surkhet District.…

Turning a Fundholder Idea into Community Action: Summer Jobs

August 13, 2014 One of the things we at the Community Foundation are most proud of is our work with individual fundholders to turn ideas into action, and start the process of building a legacy. Take the example of a fundholder who wanted to make his hometown safer for pedestrians. …

HIV diagnoses down a third in US

July 29, 2014 A recent report in the Journal of the American Medical Association has good news relating to the fight against HIV/AIDS. The rate of diagnoses for the disease in the United States are down by roughly one third over the past decade.…