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Join GCIR in a dialogue with leaders who operate in both the traditional refugee resettlement space and with the new community sponsorship program.
Thank you to all that attended CNJG’s 2023 Annual Meeting & Holiday Gathering - Philanthropic Collaboratives: Driving Impact and Opportunity on December 14.
Please join us as we kick-off our 2024 meetings with a discussion on the Vote 16 campaign.
Meet your colleagues in the corporate philanthropy sector to discuss important issues in the field today and to plan programs for 2024.
Join us at the Council of New Jersey Grantmakers Spring Conference and learn what philanthropies and their grantees can do to make sure New Jersey is counted.
Joint Statement from CNJG and the Center for Non-Profits
This statement also appeared on NJ Spotlight.
CNJG member Novartis, benchmarked Employee Crisis Programs, and asked fellow corporate funders via the corporate funders listserve to answer the questions below.
A CNJG member received an application from a school district, and wanted to know if others granted funds to a school district, and what other funders learned from granting to a district.
The Inclusive Growth ScoreTM provides local planners, governments and impact investors with a clear, simple view of social and economic indicators for any census tract in the United States.
CNJG’s community foundation services (through the United Philanthropy Forum’s services) breakdown into three categories; a national listserv for CEOs, two in-person boot camp trainings, and a discount on the On-Line CF Express Training.
The Council of New Jersey Grantmakers joins the Funders Census Initiative, United Philanthropy Forum, and philanthropy-serving organizations around the country in asking our members to support and encourage a fair and accurate Census in 2020.
One year from now the 2020 Census will be in full swing. This nationwide, constitutionally-mandated count, conducted once every ten years, is our opportunity to ensure that New Jersey residents are accurately counted to secure the resources needed to support our communities.
In 2001, the Schumann Fund for New Jersey and 10 private and corporate foundations agreed to collaborate on the multi-year Newark Lighthouse Initiative. The Initiative, led by two state nonprofit partners, the Association for Children of New Jersey and New Jersey Community Capital, had program and policy goals: to help three Newark-based early childhood programs move from good to exemplary, and to identify policy changes that would be necessary to enable other early-childhood programs to engage in similar efforts.
The first session of this series will provide an overview of activities that constitute advocacy and public policy work; various advocacy roles for foundations; definitions of lobbying; and rules for private and public foundation grants to nonprofits that lobby, including general support, specific projects and multi-year grants.
In the second session of this series, Grantmakers will learn why advocacy and policy work are important to achieve their foundation’s mission and how to make a successful case to stakeholders and trustees.
Please join the Asset Funders Network for a dynamic discussion on local interventions, local and regional policies (New York, New Jersey and Connecticut) that promote equity and access to homeownership.
Philanthropy West Virginia presents a discussion with Technology Association of Grantmakers (TAG) the recent release of its groundbreaking version 1 of the "Responsible AI Adoption in Philanthropy" framework.
On March 8, 2017, the Council of New Jersey Grantmakers' Board of Trustees approved that CNJG would take an official position opposing the repeal of the Johnson Amendment by signing on to the "Community Letter in Support of Nonpartisanship”
To dig deeper into causes of, and responses to, structural racism within philanthropy in New Jersey, the Council of New Jersey Grantmakers established a Racial Equity Task Force made up of leaders at CNJG member organizations.