Veterans

Hooey Scholar Adds Four Military Tours to Academic Career

November 6, 2017 For Stan Serbanica, earning the 2008 Austin Hooey Scholarship and acceptance into his “dream school” of New York University was just the beginning. There were, of course, many accomplishments leading up to that point – the three-time class president was voted by his peers the “Most Likely to Succeed” and would be the first in his family to attend college.…

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.…

Called to Serve: Veterans Recovering Through Community Service

July 22, 2013 Nearly 2.5 million Americans have served in Iraq or Afghanistan. Many of these men and women return home to face enormous challenges: backlogged claims for benefits, homelessness, physical and emotional trauma and difficulty adjusting to civilian life.  Efforts to alleviate this transition have increased, and several nonprofit organizations work to assist service members as they settle into life at home.…