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The F. M. Kirby Foundation Board of Directors announced 248 grants totaling $13.8 million were made in 2020 to nonprofit organizations working to foster self-reliance and create strong, healthy communities in a year of unprecedented challenges.
Topic GrantmakingImpact100 South Jersey announced that it will award $200,000 in grants to local nonprofits as a result of its fall 2020 collective giving membership drive.
Topic Grants ManagementThe New Jersey Council for the Humanities (NJCH) recently awarded $202,840 in Incubation and Action Grant funding to fifteen organizations.
Topic GrantmakingThe foundation's final grants of 2020 include awards in support of COVID-19 relief and response efforts, as well as to organizations working to improve and/or advance the arts, education, the environment, and community development.
Topic GrantmakingHFNJ is proud to announce that on December 14th their Board of Trustees approved an additional $2,521,457 in grants for 2020, bringing the total this year to more than $7.9 million.
Topic GrantmakingThe New Jersey State Council on the Arts will distribute $5 million in federal Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act funds to help arts organizations throughout the state recoup some of the significant losses they’ve experienced due to the current pandemic.
Topic COVID-19 Funding Area Arts/Culture/HumanitiesFunded by a grant from New Jersey Health Initiatives, the Camden Conservation Blueprint, tracks parks and green spaces as a way to improve the quality of life for urban residents.
Topic Grantmaking Funding Area Community Improvement/DevelopmentEnvironmentImpact 100 Jersey Coast (a fund of the Community Foundation of New Jersey) awards $114,000 to four nonprofits.
Topic GrantmakingJohnson & Johnson announced Tuesday $100 million in commitments and collaborations over the next five years to invest in and promote health equity solutions for Black people and other communities of color in the United States.
Topic Diversity, Equity, and InclusionGrantmaking Funding Area Racial EquityThe Provident Bank Foundation has announced the recipients of its Major Grants — funding between $5,000 and $25,000 — for the third and final cycle of the year.
Topic Grantmaking Funding Area Community Improvement/DevelopmentEducationalYouth DevelopmentOceanFirst Foundation, Community Foundation of South Jersey, Grunin Foundation, Pascale Sykes Foundation, United Way of Ocean and Monmouth and other funders collaborate to provide coats to children in Monmouth and Ocean Counties.
Topic Grantmaking Funding Area ChildrenNew Jersey Historic Trust grants $10 million for preservation planning, heritage tourism, and capital projects to save and promote historic sites throughout the state.
Topic Grantmaking Funding Area Arts/Culture/HumanitiesThe Rockefeller Foundation has announced a commitment of $1 billion over three years to help catalyze a more inclusive green recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic.
Topic COVID-19GrantmakingThe New Jersey State Council on the Arts awarded more than $16.3 million in grants to more than 700 arts organizations, projects, and artists throughout the state.
Topic Grantmaking Funding Area Arts/Culture/HumanitiesThe 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.
Topic COVID-19Grantmaking Funding Area Food/Agriculture/NutritionJCP&L and FirstEnergy Foundation recently donated a total of $65,000 to 13 local police chiefs associations throughout JCP&L's service territory in recognition of their key role in keeping communities safe around downed power lines and other electrical equipment.
Topic Grantmaking Funding Area Public Safety/Disaster ReliefThe 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 Educational
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