Fundholders

Fundholder’s Mission: Elevating a Nation, One Man at a Time

April 11, 2016 In a nation founded on the equality of all men, African-Americans have faced countless roadblocks to realizing their full potential. From incarceration and unemployment rates, to teenage pregnancy and fatherlessness, African-Americans have for too long been near the bottom of nearly every measure of productivity and healthy living.…

Fundholders Focus on a Cure for Rett Syndrome

August 28, 2015 It’s likely you have never heard of Rett Syndrome, a severe neurological disorder that afflicts girls and women. But it’s top of mind for several fundholders at the Community Foundation of New Jersey; these fundholders have used their donor advised funds to make grants toward a cure for the often overlooked disease.…

Fundholder-Sponsored Buyback Nets 428 Guns

August 4, 2015 For a little over $30,000, the Monmouth County Prosecutor’s office purchased 428 unwanted firearms at a two-day Monmouth County gun buyback. Asbury Park and Keansburg were the two locations where individuals could sell their weapons with no questions asked.…

Fundholder Sponsors Monmouth Gun Buyback

July 30, 2015 Gun buyback programs are a safe and effective tool for removing unwanted firearms from homes and communities. Best of all, according to one of our fundholders who is particularly passionate about the issue, they are “above the fray” of politics.…

Youth Consultation Service Popular Among CFNJ Fundholders

June 15, 2015 Among the myriad nonprofit organizations CFNJ fundholders support – up, down, and outside New Jersey – are several that enjoy a particularly longstanding connection with multiple fundholders. Youth Consultation Service (YCS) is among these. A premier nonprofit provider of behavioral health services, YCS advocates for, educates, shelters, and cares for some of New Jersey’s most vulnerable children.…

Fundholders Help Students Learn Differently, Learn More

March 18, 2015 When Nancy and Tom Kingsbury saw how their granddaughter blossomed at AIM Academy, they knew the school was, in their words, “something exceptional.”  Isabella, now 12, had struggled with traditional learning. At AIM she had found herself in a different type of classroom where all of her hard work would lead her to thrive.…

Students Mark 20 Years Since the Rwandan Genocide

December 4, 2014 Our friends at the Center for Holocaust, Human Rights & Genocide Education (Chhange) at Brookdale Community College are true pillars in the New Jersey nonprofit community, working each day to address human and civil rights issues worldwide. The organization holds a permanent archive of survivors’ memorabilia; sponsors a Speakers’ Bureau of scholars, educators and Holocaust survivors; and hosts an Annual Colloquium on human rights issues, among many other initiatives.…

Fundholder Project: Keeping Carly’s Love and Legacy Alive

October 15, 2014 Nothing is more heartbreaking than losing a child. Haworth, New Jersey native Carly Elizabeth Hughes was just two days shy of her 24th birthday when she was diagnosed with gastric cancer in October 2012. She fought the disease with determination and endured radiation, chemotherapy, and multiple operations before passing away on February 17, 2013.…

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. …