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Juvenile Justice: L.B.’s Story

March 20, 2014 The following is a client narrative from the Post-Disposition Advocacy Project (“the Clinic”).  For more on this important issue, click the “Juvenile Justice” tag below.  L.B., age 18, is a special education child with a below 80 I.Q. …

ShopRite of Hillsborough Associates Make it to the Cheerios Box

March 17, 2014 As part of its commitment to helping the hungry in local communities, ShopRite last September hosted its ShopRite Partners in Caring Annual Cheerios Contest to collect donations at check-outs.  Here’s the fun part: the stores that collected the most donated goods got to select two employees to appear on a Cheerios box to be sold at ShopRite stores in March 2014.…

NY Times Looks at Economics of Sex Trade

March 13, 2014 The New York Times this week unpacks a recent report commissioned by the Justice Department and conducted by the Urban Institute examining the economics of the sex trade in the United States. Here’s part of what they found: A street prostitute in Dallas may make as little as $5 per sex act.…

Community Foundation of New Jersey Announces Energy Services Program

March 7, 2014 Recognizing that nonprofit and faith-based organizations frequently miss opportunities to make their facilities more energy efficient, the Community Foundation of New Jersey, along with the George A. Ohl, Jr. Trust, the Steven and Mary Birch Foundation and the Episcopal Diocese of Newark, have provided funding to support the launch of the Energy Services Program.   …

Garden State Breakfast Summit on March 27th

March 5, 2014 New Jersey’s Food for Thought School Breakfast Campaign, of which we are a proud member, has an important event coming up. The Garden State School Breakfast Summit will take place Thursday, March 27, 2014 from  9:00am to 12:00pm at the Lafayette Yard Hotel & Conference Center (Wyndam), 1 West Lafayette Street, Trenton, NJ 08608.…

NJ schools expected to collect $21 million more in federal funds

March 5, 2014 Our friends at Advocates for Children of New Jersey, who spearhead the Food for Thought School Breakfast Campaign of which we are a part, have some good news to share: New Jersey school districts are expected to receive an additional $21 million in federal dollars to feed breakfast to hungry students.…

Leo Motiuk to Speak on UN Panel March 10th

March 4, 2014 Our friend Leo Motiuk, a committee member and champion of the Afghan Girls Financial Assistance Fund at the Community Foundation of New Jersey, will speak on a panel, “From Higher Education to Women’s Leadership.”  The event, which is part of the UN’s 58th session of the Commission on the Status of Women, will focus on the role higher education can play in shifting the female global leadership paradigm.…

We’re In It to End It

February 27, 2014 Following months of work to stop human trafficking at the recent Super Bowl in New Jersey, today we at the Community Foundation of New Jersey are “in it to end it.”  We’re joining with partners like the Polaris Project to shine a light on modern day slavery such as human trafficking, bonded labor, and forced labor.…