Jefferson Awards

Penelope Bustamante represents NJ at Jefferson Awards National Ceremony

June 25, 2019 The Community Foundation of New Jersey is proud to administer the New Jersey State Governor’s Jefferson Awards for Public Service in partnership with the New Jersey Governor’s Office on Volunteerism and the Star-Ledger (learn more about the partnership here), and we are especially proud of this year’s honoree who recently represented the Garden State at the national awards ceremony in Washington, DC.…

Jefferson Awards Recognize Excellence in Volunteerism

From the EMT to the T-ball coach, New Jersey is full of volunteers who spend countless hours helping to improve their communities.  The State of New Jersey, in fact, puts the number somewhere around 1.5 million, with these volunteers giving more than 170 million hours of their time each year.…