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On April 24, 2008 a $19 million landmark award was announced that will ... Mayor Cory Booker said. The $19 million is part of a larger $25 million campaign to help expand and strengthen ... School Fund . Grantmakers Convene Around Prisoner Reentry A group of 30 grantmakers and Newark officials gathered on ...
News Type: Newark Liaison
Funding Area: EducationalNewark Funders
Publication Date: January, 2008
Sample board committee descriptions, including roles and responsibilities of committee members
Resource Type: Sample Document/Template
Audience: All Funders
Topic: Administration
CNJG is pleased to share this program hosted by our partners ... in general, discuss pathways for being appointed to a board or commission, and highlight the potential impacts ... the Center for Non-Profits website . More Ways to Serve: A Look at the Gubernatorial Appointments Process ...
Event Type: Partner
Publication Date: September, 2019
... Organizations who seek effective ways to mobilize resources to sustain their organization’s work. The guide ...
Resource Type: Report
Topic: Administration
Update on CARES Act; Testing; Newark Hospitals
Event Type: Affinity Group Meeting
Audience: All Funders
Topic: COVID-19
Funding Area: Newark Funders
Publication Date: October, 2020
... and communities of color. We know all too well that in a crisis like this, these marginalized communities are hit ... work, we grounded our COVID-19 response efforts in a similar coordinated approach. This report chronicles the steps taken, under immense pressure, to develop a coordinated emergency response effort to support a broad ...
Resource Type: Research
Audience: All Funders
Topic: COVID-19Grantmaking
Publication Date: May, 2014
... in risky behaviors that can make them sick. Sometimes it's a person's home itself that makes them sick, if it exposes ...
Resource Type: Issue Briefing
Funding Area: Health-General & RehabilitativeHousing/Shelter
... American Friends Service Committee Cost : Free for CNJG Members; $50 for Non Member Grantmakers. Thanks to the ... an account for any foundations interested in pooling resources to support our immigrant community with legal and ...
Event Type: Affinity Group Meeting
Audience: All Funders
Funding Area: Newark Funders
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: July, 2021
Two different CNJG members queried the CEO listserve on how/when/how to return to the office following the COVID-19 pandemic. CNJG staff compiled the answers from the responding members ...
Resource Type: Case StudyCNJG Documents/Reports
Audience: All Funders
Topic: AdministrationCOVID-19
The rising cost of housing, a limitation on supply of affordable housing stock, and ... to housing the unhoused. In December, the City released a strategic plan to end chronic homelessness, the first plan ...
Event Type: Affinity Group Meeting
Audience: All Funders
Funding Area: Newark Funders
... the country and get ready to invest in yourself with a guide to everything your foundation does and can do in the community. Community Foundation Boot Camp is a 12-hour workshop offered in six online sessions scheduled ... with an overview of the structure and operations of a community foundation, covering nearly every aspect of this ...
Event Type: Partner
Audience: Community Foundation
Over the course of a year, Philanthropy New York's Leadership Transitions Funders Group has engaged a group of NYC-based funders in building a community of ... Nonprofit Sustainability Initiative Cost : Free for CNJG Members; $150 for Non Member Grantmakers This program is ...
Event Type: Partner
... and provided an opportunity for grantmakers to hear from a wide range of experts in the field of disaster ... Long Term Recovery and Capacity Building Team (1/28/13) Reports from NJ's Long Term Recovery Groups and Environmental ...
... 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
Update from Mayor Ras Baraka, and other non-profit leaders
Event Type: Affinity Group Meeting
Topic: COVID-19
Funding Area: Newark Funders
Publication Date: November, 2012
... Action Learning Network (PALN) is one of six examined in a report from New York University's Wagner Research Center ...
Resource Type: Case Study
Audience: All Funders
Topic: Strategy & Collaboration
Publication Date: February, 2013
This paper explores community democracy as a cultural choice and a potential organizing system for philanthropy using stories ... northern California communities. This experience offers a framework of principles and a beginning set of conclusions ...
Resource Type: Research
Topic: About Philanthropy
Funding Area: Community Improvement/Development
Publication Date: January, 2022
... and the rights of working people. Today, Amalgamated is a full service financial institution supporting clients in 50 ... that screen out extractive industries and channel those resources to mission aligned strategies. Give with Your ... with United Philanthropy Forum and its members (including CNJG and its members) to offer preferred banking services. ...
Publication Date: March, 2014
Why is the food system important to philanthropy? Because hunger, food insecurity, nutrition-related chronic disease, the health of resource lands and waterways, wages, and equal opportunity in the food economy all converge in our regional food system.
Resource Type: Issue Briefing
Funding Area: Food/Agriculture/Nutrition