Food/Agriculture/Nutrition
Join us for a discussion on creating a more resilient, heathier, and sustainable food system in New Jersey.
Join fellow funders in discussing solutions to combat food insecurity in the garden state.
Learn about how your organization can support local food economies and close health and wealth gaps.
Information on how COVID-19 is exacerbating food insecurity in New Jersey and how philanthropy can support solutions to reduce hunger in the wake of this crisis.
This annual report reveals results of a research study about food insecurity among older adults in the United States. Released by the National Foundation to End Senior Hunger (NFESH) and Feeding America, the study results offer data from the most recent year for which it is available, 2016, and reveals that more older adults faced hunger at this time than before the Great Recession.
Why is the food system important to philanthropy? Because hunger, food insecurity, nutrition-related chronic disease, the health of resource lands and waterways, wages, and equal opportunity in the food economy all converge in our regional food system.
As older adults are increasingly choosing to age in place, cross-cutting issues are coming to the forefront – the quality of care received by disabled or chronically ill older adults in their own homes, and the quality of the jobs of the caregivers who provide this care.
The New Jersey Economic Development Authority granted $17.5 million to nonprofits through Phase 3 of their Sustain & Serve program.
The Center for Cooperative Media at Montclair State University has announced the five winners who are sharing $45,000 from The Newark Peer Learning and Collaboration Fund, a project funded by The Nicholson Foundation and Victoria Foundation, to strengthen the city’s local news ecosystem.
Jon Bon Jovi and wife, Dorothea, opened their first JBJ Soul Kitchen on a college campus at Rutgers University-Newark to address college students' struggles with food insecurity.
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