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Community Foundation of New Jersey Welcomes Amanda Kwai Pun as Chief Financial Officer

October 22, 2024 The Community Foundation of New Jersey (CFNJ) announced today that Amanda Kwai Pun has joined the organization as its new Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Over nearly two decades, Kwai Pun has served in accounting director, staff accountant, and senior manager roles at various well-respected organizations, including IKEA and KPMG.…

Promoting Safe Havens for DV Survivors & Grieving the Pet I Left Behind

In commemoration of Domestic Violence Awareness Month, Shanay Bell — our Director of Communications — honors the dog she left behind and writes about a CFNJ legacy fund that will support sanctuaries for survivors and their pets. If you’re in danger and need help, call the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 1-800-799-7233 / TTY 1-800-787-3224 or text “START” to 88788.…

CFNJ Announces Statewide Initiative to Support Safe Havens for DV Survivors & Their Pets

September 18, 2024 The Community Foundation of New Jersey (CFNJ) launched a new fund today that aims to ensure at least one domestic violence shelter in every county can house survivors and their pets — helping them find refuge together. Supported through the Quinn’s Corner Fund, these grants will cover everything from vet bills and staff training to capital expenses and planning funds.…

Jersey Gives a Damn!

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PSEG’s Tamara Linde Becomes Community Foundation Board Chair

The Community Foundation of New Jersey (CFNJ) today announced that Tamara Linde, executive vice president and general counsel for Public Service Enterprise Group Incorporated (PSEG) and its subsidiaries, has been selected as the new Chair of its Board of Trustees. Ms.…

Donating at year’s end? Keep these dates in mind.

For the Community Foundation of New Jersey, year-end is an intense period in which we facilitate a huge volume of grants from our very generous fundholders to the causes and charities they care about. To make this process run smoothly, we’d like to remind you of the following: If you need a grant made by December 31st of this year, we kindly ask you to initiate that grant by December 23rd.…

New Donor Portal Coming Soon

June 12, 2020 You spoke and we’re listening! We’ve heard from many fundholders about their desire to do even more of their grantmaking online, and we’ve seen ourselves how popular online giving has become. That’s why, later this month, we’ll be introducing a new online donor portal.…

Community Foundation Named Top 10 Charity in NJ, Top Community Foundation in US

November 12, 2019 The Community Foundation of New Jersey (CFNJ) was today named one of New Jersey’s top 10 charities by Charity Navigator, the nation’s largest and most-utilized evaluator of charities. Charity Navigator made the determination following their calculation that CFNJ spends 95.2% of its total expenses on programs and services and scored a 98.03% on overall financial accountability and transparency based on 2017 data.…

Time to prepare your year-end giving

October 18, 2019 The holiday season is soon upon us, and here at the Community Foundation we are preparing for what is always a busy time of year. For many of the organizations you support through your fund, December 31st is the end of their fiscal year.…

Community Foundation Hiring a Staff Accountant

July 31, 2019 The largest community foundation in New Jersey, the Community Foundation of New Jersey is a center for philanthropy for our state and region. Our mission is to support charitable giving that is inspired by our donors, targeted at making our communities stronger, driven by creative solutions, and effective in achieving lasting change.…