Impact 100

Impact 100 Announces Two Large Grants for 2014

April 14, 2014 Our friends at Impact 100 Garden State might want to think about a name change… that’s because they’ve far outpaced their goal of having 100 New Jersey women participate in their giving. The group’s 2014 membership period has closed with 185 members and $185,000 in contributions. …

Impact 100 Announces 2014 Schedule

February 25, 2014 Our friends over at Impact 100 Garden State have announced their schedule for accepting and reviewing 2014 grant applications.  Scroll down for all the details. April 9.  Announcement of the 2014 grant and posting of 2014 Grant Application online.…

Helping Combat Veterans Cope… through Paper

January 23, 2014 Thanks to a $135,000 grant from our friends and partners at Impact 100 Garden State (learn more about them here), more New Jersey veterans will be able to “recover from the physical, emotional and psychological pain of combat” through the art of making paper.…

Impact 100 Garden State Announces Its Inaugural Grant Recipient

November 11, 2013 We’ve told you about our friends at Impact 100 Garden State, an aspiring nonprofit organization we house here at the Community Foundation.  Click here for the story of their founding, here for the announcement of their grant amount, and here for a recap of their April 2013 information session.…

CFNJ Hosts Impact 100 Garden State Information Session

April 23, 2013 This time it was a $133,000 grant that had the Community Foundation’s conference room packed with nonprofit leaders. Impact 100 Garden State, which was established by six New Jersey women just last year, organized the event to discuss the application process and parameters around their sole grant for 2013.…

Impact 100 Readies $133K Grant

April 8, 2013 Last year we told you about Impact 100 Garden State, a newly-formed organization being incubated at the Community Foundation of New Jersey.  Click here for that article. The group’s goal is relatively simple.  One hundred New Jersey women each donate $1,000 to the fund and then vote for one nonprofit organization to receive a $100,000 grant. …

100 Women Impacting Hundreds of Others

February 6, 2013 All grant-making organizations must raise funds, manage their boards, evaluate applications, and administer grants. But it is those organizations that make a discernible impact in the community that are the true exemplars. No one knows that better than the six New Jersey women working through the Community Foundation of New Jersey (CFNJ) to start their own grant-making organization, and it’s why they’ve made impact the name of the game — literally.…