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The Campbell Soup Foundation has chosen its 2019 Community Impact Grant recipients, with 31 nonprofits receiving a total of $595,000 — including several organizations in the food company’s home city of Camden.
Topic Grantmaking Funding Area Community Improvement/DevelopmentAs public education in Newark undergoes another major transition, a new non-profit organization is launching with a bold vision for what’s possible.
Topic Grantmaking Funding Area EducationalNewark FundersPrudential Financial Inc. said it plans to commit more than $180 million through 2025 to support the opportunity youth — approximately 350 million people aged 15-29 who lack access to school, training or regular jobs — with about a third of the investment going toward the Newark area.
Topic Grantmaking Funding Area Youth DevelopmentAt their first board meeting of the year, Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation trustees in March approved $2.7 million in 60 grants to New Jersey nonprofit organizations for work in the arts, education, environment, and informed communities.
Topic Grantmaking Funding Area Arts/Culture/HumanitiesEducationalEnvironmentThe Panasonic Foundation and the Hispanic Heritage Foundation will launch a Code as a Second Language effort in four cities across the country starting with Newark, NJ.
Topic GrantmakingThe Nicholson Foundation, The Henry and Marilyn Taub Foundation and The Burke Foundation join New Jersey Department of Health in supporting the implementation of Centering as model of choice across five sites in the state.
Topic Grantmaking Funding Area ChildrenWomen and GirlsNew Jersey leaders should pursue a broad range of policy options to expand opportunity so that everyone in New Jersey—no matter who they are, where they live, or how much money they make—can live the healthiest life possible, says a report released by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
The Provident Bank Foundation announced the recipients of its First Cycle 2019 Major Grants, totaling $215,000.
Topic Grantmaking Funding Area Community Improvement/DevelopmentEducationalYouth DevelopmentThe Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) announced that Julie Morita, MD, the current commissioner of the Chicago Department of Public Health, has been named executive vice president, overseeing all programming, policy, research, and communications activities.
Kessler Foundation has awarded approximately $2.5 million in 2018 in grants to organizations across the U.S. to support initiatives that create or expand job training and employment initiatives for people with disabilities.
Topic Grantmaking Funding Area Employment/JobsThe Healthcare Foundation of New Jersey recently awarded 12 grants totaling just under $1 million to improve the health and wellness of underserved and vulnerable populations in greater Newark and surrounding low income NJ communities.
Topic Grantmaking Funding Area Health-General & RehabilitativeThe Trustees of The Fund for New Jersey awarded $855,652 in grants to non-profit organizations at their March 2019 quarterly Board meeting.
Topic Grantmaking Funding Area EducationalHousing/ShelterSubaru of America Inc., the auto manufacturer based in Camden, announced this week that its annual Subaru Share the Love Event led to $27.5 million for national and local charities in 2018.
Topic GrantmakingThe Overdeck Family Foundation recently launched a website that includes an article looking towards the future with a new mission statement, and what that means for the Foundation.
Topic About PhilanthropyCampbell Soup Foundation reports on their recent efforts to support neighborhood revitalization in Camden though the NRTC program.
Funding Area Community Improvement/DevelopmentThe Community Foundation of New Jersey (CFNJ) today thanked its more than 1,100 fundholders for recommending a record 7,722 individual grants in 2018 totaling $66.7 million.
Topic Grantmaking Funding Area Community Improvement/DevelopmentFood/Agriculture/NutritionYouth DevelopmentAudible.com is profiled in a National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy that shows companies can help their communities in ways beyond traditional monetary support.
The F. M. Kirby Foundation announced 222 grants totaling $12.9 million were made in 2018 to nonprofit organizations working create strong and healthy communities and foster self-reliance.
Topic Grantmaking Funding Area Community Improvement/DevelopmentAishah Miller has been named the new Executive Director of The Wells Fargo Regional Foundation, a role she officially assumed at the end of last year.
Topic About PhilanthropyThe Montclair Foundation has awarded $42,000 in grants to seven nonprofits that serve the Montclair community and beyond.
Topic Grantmaking Funding Area Arts/Culture/HumanitiesCommunity Improvement/DevelopmentThe Prudential Foundation, which has focused on both on place-based philanthropy in its home of Newark, New Jersey, and on globally inclusive economies, has supported the performance and education work of the Alvin Ailey Foundation since 1984.
Funding Area Arts/Culture/HumanitiesThe United Way of Passaic County announced grants between $10,000 and $15,000 to four local non-profits to help tackle hunger issues in Passaic County and Paterson, where 37% of residents are “food insecure.”
Topic Grantmaking Funding Area Food/Agriculture/NutritionThe Westfield Foundation in 2018 granted more than $278,000 to 26 different agencies in and around Westfield.
Topic Grantmaking Funding Area Community Improvement/DevelopmentHealth-General & RehabilitativeThe Trustees of The Fund for New Jersey awarded $350,000 in grants to non-profit organizations at their December 2018 quarterly Board meeting.
Topic Grantmaking Funding Area Community Improvement/DevelopmentHealth-General & Rehabilitative
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