Health

COVID-19 Response: Real-Time Philanthropic Updates

All across New Jersey, our fundholders, clients, and other partners are using their own philanthropy to make a meaningful difference in responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. We will utilize this page as a frequently-updated collection of these ideas and projects, and encourage you to share your own work.…

Welcoming the Ruth Gottscho Kidney Foundation

March 3, 2020 Please join us in welcoming The Ruth Gottscho Kidney Foundation as an affiliated fund of the Community Foundation of New Jersey! Through this new partnership, The Ruth Gottscho Kidney Foundation will utilize the grantmaking and administrative support services of CFNJ, thus obviating the need for its own staff and enabling the Foundation to focus on what it does best: to make the dream of summer camp a reality for children with kidney disorders.…

Visiting Nurse Association of Somerset Hills Establishes Foundation to Support Health and Wellness Initiatives

January 8, 2020 The Visiting Nurse Association of Somerset Hills (VNASH), a provider of home and community-based healthcare services, has established the Somerset Hills Community Health Foundation (SHCHF), a donor advised fund with the Community Foundation of New Jersey (CFNJ).  The creation of this foundation coincides with the announcement that VNASH recently joined the Atlantic Health System family to form Atlantic Visiting Nurse.…

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. …

For Bouras Scholar, Service Comes First

February 21, 2018 For Melanie Tanis, there has always been one goal: to someday become a nurse. Well, sort of. As Melanie explained in her scholarship application to the Community Foundation of New Jersey, “a nurse is a person dedicated to the care and welfare of the lives of others… so in actuality, my goal in life isn’t just to become a nurse, but rather to dedicate my life to helping others.”…

Partners for Health Foundation Seeking Nominations

February 12, 2018 As part of their 10-Year Anniversary celebration, our friends at the Partners for Health Foundation will recognize people and individuals who have made extraordinary contributions to health and well-being in their 15 service area communities. Up to $100,000 will be distributed among 10 award winners in 2018.…

Investing in Delivering Medical Technology to India & Africa

Much of our world’s population does not have access to life-saving medical technologies that developed markets take for granted as part of healthcare delivery. These are the products that treat complications in pregnancy and help diagnose cervical and breast cancer before it’s too late.…

Roots & Wings to Honor Community Foundation of New Jersey

The Rise & Fly Gala will honor the Community Foundation of New Jersey and other funders, partner nonprofits, and volunteers who have dedicated significant resources and time to helping individuals who are aging out of New Jersey’s child welfare system. Roots & Wings is client-centered, providing nurturing support, safe housing, educational support and practical life skills to young adults who have aged out of the child welfare system.…

Fundholder in Focus: Preventing Stillbirths

October 10, 2017 Every year in the United States, more than 25,000 babies are lost to stillbirth. Despite this staggering statistic, the topic of stillbirth remains a taboo subject. Thousands of families endure the pain and trauma of stillbirth every year, and until we as a society acknowledge this and talk openly about it, health care professionals, friends, family will remain unprepared to help their loved ones.…