New Jersey Philanthropy Hub
You may have seen an email or two about this, read an online article, or clicked on a social media post. Perhaps you’ve even seen a demo already! But, later this month, you will actually get to experience it for yourself!
No, it’s not the latest Labubu. I’m talking about the New Jersey Philanthropy Hub – powered by Impala.
Theresa and I, (yes, this is Craig W. writing this) have been working with our friends and colleagues at the New Jersey Center for Nonprofits to bring the Impala platform to EVERY nonprofit and EVERY funder in New Jersey for free for 36 months!
The Center and CNJG are launching the New Jersey Philanthropy Hub, powered by Impala, on two different dates:
- For nonprofits and their fundraising activities: Thursday, October 23 at noon
- For grantmakers and their staff and board: Friday, October 24 at noon
Both events will be a Zoom webinar.
CNJG will soon provide our members with language you can use to email your nonprofit partners about the nonprofit launch on October 23. Over 400 nonprofit professionals have already registered for the launch!
We thank CNJG member The Tepper Foundation, who through the Jewish Funders Network, introduced us to the platform. After seeing a demo, we were intrigued, and through a former PIO (Philanthropy Infrastructure Organization) colleague who now works at Impala, we started the process of understanding what this platform could do for the social sector here in New Jersey.
One small example relates to Goal #1 from our Doing Good Better initiative, which calls to center equity. We at CNJG asked: How can funders find marginalized, underfunded, and impactful organizations? How can we help give better access to funders for those same organizations? Especially with the massive cuts in government funding, we were determined to give free access to this tool for EVERY nonprofit and EVERY grantmaker in the state to help find more opportunities within New Jersey and from funders outside New Jersey.
We thank our members that have funded this three-year initiative: The Campbell’s Company, the Community Foundation of New Jersey, F.M. Kirby Foundation, Grunin Foundation, Princeton Area Community Foundation, PSEG Foundation, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. This initiative is not inexpensive, yet it should be highly impactful – positively affecting every nonprofit in the state, even if they are not in your funding area! There is always room for more financial support, and we would welcome a conversation with you to also support this initiative. If you want to learn more, please call or email me.
Impala can help your grantmaking efforts by:
- Building sector-specific reports to see disparities in funding.
- Reducing the paperwork burden for your nonprofit partners (Doing Good Better Goal #4!) by using the data already here.
- Streamlining your due diligence efforts with an easy-to-digest and visually engaging interface, making it easy for trustees and/or grant reviewers to review finances of potential grantees.
- Finding other national funders with whom you can partner.
At our Annual Meeting of Members and Holiday Gathering on December 10, the workshop will focus on the Impala platform. [Registration opens very soon!] Bring your laptop, so you can follow along, and tweak your organization’s profile! The New Jersey Center for Nonprofits will also have an Impala demo at their conference on December 3.
We hope that you can join us for the launch event for grantmakers on the 24th, and please invite your nonprofit partners to the launch event on the 23rd.
With thanks,
Craig Weinrich
Senior Director, Member Experience
& Senior Executive during the remainder of Theresa’s sabbatical through mid-October