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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.
Topic Diversity, Equity, and InclusionThe Westfield Foundation recently granted $250,000 to the YWCA Union County, who is celebrating their centennial year, for the construction of their new building in Elizabeth, which will function as a central hub for all programs.
Topic Grantmaking Funding Area Community Improvement/DevelopmentThe Community Chest announced a second round of grants, totaling $130,000, was awarded to 17 agencies from the organization's Coronavirus Emergency Response Fund.
Topic COVID-19GrantmakingA long-running Rutgers University program, the Center on Policing, and PSEG announced an initiative Tuesday that is intended to improve police departments’ relationships with communities of color by proactively addressing practices that result in impartial policing.
Topic Diversity, Equity, and InclusionGrantmaking Funding Area Racial EquityThe foundation details its giving for COVID-19 related causes and how it changed their grantmaking to deal with the pandemic.
Topic COVID-19GrantmakingCiti and the Citi Foundation announced this week more than $1 billion in strategic initiatives to help close the country’s racial wealth gap and increase economic mobility.
Topic Diversity, Equity, and InclusionGrantmaking Funding Area Racial EquityIn the Garden State, the financial institution is partnering with Bergen County’s United Way, HomeFront, Interfaith Neighbors, United Way of Greater Newark and Trenton Area Soup Kitchen as part of a nationwide effort to make distributions to communities disproportionally impacted by COVID-19.
Topic COVID-19GrantmakingNovartis US Foundation has announced a total commitment of $25 million to develop partnerships and fund community organizations and programs that address health inequities, with a focus on diversity in clinical trials, in the United States.
Topic Diversity, Equity, and InclusionGrantmaking Funding Area Racial EquityTD Charitable Foundation has increased the amount of money available in its Housing for Everyone grant competition to $4.9 million this year, up from $3.75 million in the previous year.
Topic Grantmaking Funding Area Housing/ShelterWest Trenton-based NJM Insurance Group has committed $50,000 to the New Jersey Pandemic Relief Fund’s Trenton Wi-Fi Initiative.
Topic COVID-19GrantmakingJersey Central Power & Light (JCP&L), a subsidiary of FirstEnergy Corp., recently donated more than 83,000 pounds of food items to 10 food banks and religious organizations in New Jersey and Pennsylvania following tropical storm Isaias.
Topic Grantmaking Funding Area Disaster Response/ReliefHarris Blitzer Sports & Entertainment, the holding company that owns the NBA’s Philadelphia 76ers and NHL's New Jersey Devils, has announced a $20 million commitment in support of efforts to fight systemic racism and champion equality.
Topic Diversity, Equity, and InclusionGrantmakingWith a focus on small New Jersey communities and geographic areas of the state that have less access to funding, New Jersey Health Initiatives recently selected 13 community-based organizations to receive grants totaling $400,000 to address immediate needs such as food, housing and income assistance, and social isolation in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Topic COVID-19GrantmakingThe Fred Morgan Kirby Prize for Scaling Social Impact is an annual global prize of $100,000 USD in unrestricted funds that amplifies and accelerates the work of enterprises working to scale their impact on social or environmental problems around the world.
The Westfield Foundation announced Emily Ensslin and Ian Gurland as the Clarence H. and Florence Horn Van Dellen Scholarship recipients for 2020.
Topic Grantmaking Funding Area EducationalThe Fund for New Jersey announced grants for the second quarter in 2020 totaling $955,000 to advance public policies in the areas of climate change and clean energy, environmental protection, voting rights, criminal justice reform, social justice and civil rights, and transportation.
Topic GrantmakingThe Community Foundation of South Jersey announced today that a sixth community has been selected to receive a $100,000 Transform South Jersey grant.
Topic GrantmakingThe Fund for New Jersey expects to spend, beyond its regular grants budget in 2020-21 and again in 2021-22 to promote racial justice in the state.
Topic Diversity, Equity, and InclusionGrantmakingPrograms for Parents announced the launch of a $112,000 Home Grown Home-Based Child Care Emergency Fund, an application-based relief program to award grants to 180 registered family child care providers and 120 family, friend and neighbor providers impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic in Essex County.
Topic COVID-19GrantmakingOceanFirst Foundation partners with nonprofits to enable them to award summer camp scholarships.
Topic Grantmaking Funding Area ChildrenThe William Penn Foundation announced two grants supporting immediate economic relief and future work opportunity in the region.
Topic COVID-19Diversity, Equity, and InclusionGrantmakingWells Fargo announced the details of its $400 million effort to help small businesses that have been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic keep their doors open.
Topic COVID-19GrantmakingSUEZ North America gave $120,000 and PPE to Hackensack Meridian to support research and the network’s response to COVID-19.
Topic COVID-19GrantmakingM&T Bank has invested $1 million in support of New Jersey Community Capital’s Garden State Relief Fund, which provides working capital loans to small businesses and nonprofits negatively impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Topic COVID-19GrantmakingThe Princeton Area Community Foundation has awarded more than $90,000 in scholarships to area high school and college students.
Topic Grantmaking Funding Area EducationalOceanFirst Foundation of Toms River has awarded $150,000 in grants to 66 nonprofits throughout central and southern New Jersey through its Arts and Cultural Grant Program.
Topic Grantmaking Funding Area Arts/Culture/HumanitiesPrudential Financial is dedicating $10 million to fintech oriented towards solving intransigent financial and social inequality in the U.S.
Topic Diversity, Equity, and InclusionGrantmakingNewark Arts has announced the awardees of its annual mini-grant program, ArtStart, for the year 2020-2021.
Topic Grantmaking Funding Area Arts/Culture/HumanitiesCiti and the Citi Foundation have committed more than $100 million to date in support of COVID-19-related community relief and economic recovery efforts globally.
Topic COVID-19GrantmakingJPMorgan Chase — as part of its global initiative to help support underserved households during COVID-19 — is making a $375,000 investment to help kick-start the Greater Newark Enterprises Corp. Entrepreneurs of Color COVID-19 Relief Fund.
Topic COVID-19Diversity, Equity, and InclusionGrantmaking
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