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Publication Date: March, 2025
... Through stories and related text, the book showed how a small family foundation could take six guiding themes and ... that benefitted individuals, families, and communities. A recent scholarly paper built on that work, helping to make ... to researchers, academics, and philanthropists. “A Framework for Creating Systems Change,” by Drs. William ...
Audience: All Funders
Funding Area: Community Improvement/Development
Lessons from the Measure of America: A Portrait of Newark Report Please join us for a combined meeting of the Newark Funder Affinity Group and ... Director, My Brother’s Keeper – Newark Cost : Free for CNJG Members; $50 for Non Member Grantmakers. Newark Voices ...
Event Type: Affinity Group Meeting
Audience: All Funders
Funding Area: Newark Funders
Publication Date: December, 2022
... Power to Shift Systems: Insights and Tools for Funders is a new report from Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors (RPA) ... Advisors’ Shifting Systems Initiative hosted a series of eight workshops focused on power and equity in ... important themes and insights on how to balance power in a way that drives rather than inhibits change. RPA’s new ...
Resource Type: Report
Audience: All Funders
... communities, but also weakening our ability to function as a society with a shared set of information about the world. In this ...
Event Type: Partner
Publication Date: April, 2025
... and provided an opportunity for grantmakers to hear from a wide range of nonprofit experts. This series started on March 13, 2025, less than a month after the first executive order was issued and ...
Resource Type: Issue BriefingPresentation
Publication Date: November, 2014
... adopting an anchor mission that seeks to fully deploy all resources to build community wealth. Moving into territory ... and Violeta Duncan, Community Development Associate. A New Anchor Mission for a New Century ...
Resource Type: Issue Briefing
Audience: Community Foundation
Topic: Hurricane Sandy
As we know, COVID-19 had a significant impact on student academic achievement. School ... country are working to accelerate student learning with a particular focus on literacy. Join us for our next Newark ... and CEO, United Way of Greater Newark Cost : Free for CNJG Members; $50 for Non Member Grantmakers. Newark ...
Event Type: Affinity Group Meeting
Audience: All Funders
Funding Area: EducationalNewark Funders
... the Northeast, housing-related financial strain remains a significant barrier to household stability and long-term ... return or dividends to renters, this session will take a deeper dive into renter wealth-building models in action. ...
Event Type: Partner
Audience: All Funders
Funding Area: Housing/Shelter
Publication Date: March, 2020
A CNJG member received an application from a school district, and wanted to know if others granted funds to a school district, and what other funders learned from ...
Resource Type: CNJG Documents/Reports
Topic: Grantmaking
Publication Date: June, 2014
... from Grantmakers for Effective Organizations offers a framework for thinking about how to measure progress and ... change initiatives. Evaluating Community Change: A Framework for Grantmakers ...
Resource Type: Research
Audience: Community Foundation
Topic: Grants Management
... Candelario , Professor of Professional Practice, Latino/a/x Initiatives for Service, Training, and Assessment, ... & CEO, United Way of Greater Newark Doing Good Better , a partnership of the Council of New Jersey Grantmakers and the New Jersey Center for Nonprofits , is a community of funders and nonprofits taking action against ...
On this webinar, Newark funders discussed the childcare practice and policy during COVID-19 and heard front line observations on matters of mental health and domestic violence.
Speakers:
Ceil Zalkind, President and CEO, Advocates for Children of New Jersey
Beverly Lynn, CEO, Programs for Parents
Maria Ortiz, Executive Director, Student Life, Newark Board of Education
LaKeesha Eure, Director, Shani Baraka Women’s Resource Center and Chair, Newark Anti-Violence Coalition
Webinar Video
Event Type: Affinity Group Meeting
Topic: COVID-19
Funding Area: Newark Funders
... Jersey, the Council of New Jersey Grantmakers established a Racial Equity Task Force made up of leaders at CNJG member organizations. The task force’s mandate is to ... work to support systemic change. Philanthropy must invest resources towards advocacy to affect policy, and take that ...
News Type: CNJG News
On March 9th, 2023, the City of Newark unveiled a Harriet Tubman monument in the newly re-named Harriet ... Tubman Square. The Newark Philanthropic Liaison played a key role on the monument project team for two years, ... available to make the vision of the Mayor and community a reality. We are proud to be a grantee of the Mellon ...
News Type: Newark Liaison
Funding Area: Newark Funders
... Committee for Responsive Philanthropy (NCRP), present a briefing that features a panel of speakers representing nonprofit organizations ... introduced in state legislatures nationwide. Immigrant advocacy groups – already facing a myriad of historically ...
Event Type: Partner
Audience: All Funders
Funding Area: Racial Equity
... positioned to support student wellbeing and promote a positive learning environment, but often lack the resources to do so. The Foundation for Educational ... and school leaders face the challenge of creating a high-quality experience for early learners. The ...
Event Type: Affinity Group Meeting
Audience: All Funders
Funding Area: ChildrenEducationalMental Health/Crisis Intervention
... leaders, and find ways to leverage philanthropy across a range of needs. The coalitions often have ambitious agendas ... forward to develop a roadmap for the City. Members of the CNJG are playing an active role in the Summit and additional ... gather a wealth of information by tapping into the resources of Newark’s collaborative groups. Additional ...
News Type: Newark Liaison
Topic: Strategy & Collaboration
Publication Date: April, 2014
... of the targeted investments we can start to agree on as a society to salvage the investment we have collectively made in our social infrastructure. We believe that a coordinated intervention now will not only better prepare ... us for inevitable future economic crises; it can lead to a happier, healthier community for us all. 2014 State of the ...
Resource Type: PresentationReportResearch
Audience: All Funders
Topic: About Philanthropy
Funding Area: Arts/Culture/Humanities
Publication Date: January, 2008
... that advance the mission as one of the hallmarks of a remarkable association. But getting a partnership right is an involved undertaking. That's what The Power of Partnership , itself the result of a strategic research collaboration of ASAE & The Center and ...
Resource Type: Best PracticeResearch
Audience: All Funders
Topic: Strategy & Collaboration
Late last year, the Texas legislature passed a series of bills targeting migration at the Texas-Mexico ... authorization to enter or re-enter into Texas. Since then, a series of legal decisions have created confusion and ... bills. Most recently the governor of Iowa signed SF2340 , a bill which made it a state crime for immigrants with prior ...
Event Type: Partner