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Publication Date: November, 2015
... communities around the world. Through examples from a diverse range of foundations, this guide explores how ...
Resource Type: Best Practice
Audience: All Funders
Publication Date: September, 2015
This publication provides information on 11 benefits and conversation-starters about philanthropic advocacy and lobbying. Specifically, it answers your questions about legal rules and provides concrete examples, templates, resources, and tips.
Resource Type: Resource Guide
Audience: All Funders
Topic: Public Policy
Funding Area: Civil/Advocacy/Policy
... Authority (NJEDA) today announced the New Jersey Community Stage Relief Grant Program. The $17.5 million ... host at least two regularly occurring live performances or events per week. “From Count Basie and Springsteen to Sinatra and Queen Latifah, New Jersey has a long and rich history of supporting performing artists and ...
News Type: News
Audience: All Funders
Topic: Grantmaking
Funding Area: Arts/Culture/Humanities
... across New Jersey. The fund, hosted by the Princeton Area Community Foundation, aims to offer critical grant dollars for many of ... their communities. They are important anchors central to community wellbeing and quality of life in the areas they ...
News Type: News
... received donations totaling $706,325 from the KearnyBank Foundation. The funds were contributed across four specific ... categories: Education, Quality of Life, Housing and Community. The five largest contributions were $65,000 to ... going to Education, $177,500 to Housing and $104,000 to Community. “Particularly given the pandemic experience of ...
News Type: News
Topic: Grantmaking
CNJG is pleased to extend an inviation from our colleague ... fear and harm in immigrant communities. According to a recent analysis by the National Committee on Responsive ... in the country are being detained in rural areas, creating a burden for their families, many of whom are forced to ...
Event Type: Partner
Audience: All Funders
Funding Area: Community Improvement/DevelopmentHuman Services
... Labor, State of New Jersey, and City of Newark announced a $5 million grant to help provide jobs and support to ... Ganz Cooney, the Charles Edison Fund/Edison Innovation Foundation, the Council of New Jersey Grantmakers, the F.M. ... strategic alliances with federal and state officials, community and faith-based organizations, and the leveraging ...
News Type: Newark Liaison
Funding Area: Crime/Courts/Legal
... the Association for Children of New Jersey and New Jersey Community Capital, had program and policy goals: to help ... six-year life included the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, Schumann Fund for New Jersey, Prudential ... life of the project. The money was used first to support a needs assessment for each center, and then to help the ...
News Type: Newark Liaison
Topic: Strategy & Collaboration
Funding Area: Newark Funders
... has put increasing pressure from the investment community on companies to meet specific reporting ... are demanding that companies address their concerns on a wide range of social and environmental issues. The growing ... points for more equitable practices? Cost : Free for CNJG Members; $150 for Non Member Grantmakers This program is ...
Event Type: Partner
Audience: Corporate Giving
Topic: Corporate Philanthropy/CSR
... D.C., the Newark Funders Education Committee presented a workshop called “How Not to Read the Prize” to a ... interested in place-based impact to engage with the community and with local funders. In September 2010, Mark ... to transform education in Newark in five years. The Foundation for Newark’s Future was created as a local ...
News Type: Newark Liaison
Audience: All Funders
Topic: Grantmaking
Funding Area: Newark Funders
Panasonic today announced the Panasonic Foundation, in partnership with the Community Foundation of New Jersey (CFNJ), has allocated four $25,000 ...
News Type: News
Topic: Grantmaking
Publication Date: January, 2012
... in prevention of cruelty to children or animals. 509(a): Section of the tax code that defines public charities ... Foundations must be accountable to the public because foundation donors and the institutions they create receive ... Funds: Affiliate funds operate like freestanding community foundations for smaller communities. By affiliating ...
Resource Type: Resource Guide
Audience: All Funders
Topic: About Philanthropy
CNJG’s Finance and Investment Affinity Group exists to keep foundation executives informed as they manage the investment ... investment strategies is the focus of each program. After a positive year for both stock and bond markets that caught ...
Event Type: Affinity Group Meeting
Topic: Finance
Publication Date: January, 2014
In a 2013 survey, funders were asked about the biggest ... you can focus on exploring one approach to transparency at a time. Opening Up: Demystifying Funder Transparency ...
Resource Type: Issue BriefingResearch
Audience: All Funders
Topic: Grantmaking
... PCA-NJ's mission with the $100,000 grant is to implement a research-based, trauma-informed Children's Wellness ... can use to better understand how "toxic" stressful events affect their ability to succeed in school. This ... in Essex County for this program. The Newark Educators Community Charter School is the first school to commit to the ...
News Type: News
Topic: Grantmaking
Funding Area: Children
Publication Date: November, 2012
... Goldman Sachs Investment Management Division has developed a new approach to strategic asset allocation, which leverages ... risk and return estimates. It also provides investors with a new way to think about portfolio diversification, allowing ... sources of return. Strategic Asset Allocation in a Multi-Factor World ...
Resource Type: Report
Audience: Executive Staff
Topic: Finance
Publication Date: January, 2024
Funders want to be the best versions of themselves. A critical step on that journey is getting feedback from grantees. However, not every foundation has the time or capacity to collect grantee ... We provide additional context and data from the 2023 Foundation Operations and Management Report (FOMR) and links ...
Resource Type: ResearchResource Guide
Audience: All Funders
CNJG is pleased to offer this program from our colleagues at ... underserved, and undervalued. While this is not a new concept, we are encouraged to see more funders discuss ... more about the sector’s response to the concept from Foundation Center (presently, Candid.), and others. Now three ...
Event Type: Partner
Audience: All Funders
Funding Area: Arts/Culture/Humanities
Read about the progress of the CNJG network through July 2015, in CNJG’s Mid-Year Memo to Members. 2015 Mid-Year Memo to ...
News Type: CNJG News
Audience: All Funders
Publication Date: September, 2016
ACT!Quick is a short version of Alliance for Justice’s Advocacy Capacity Tool (ACT!) and is designed to provide a quick diagnosis of the strengths and gaps in ...
Resource Type: Resource Guide
Audience: All Funders
Topic: Strategy & Collaboration