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This resource guide includes various virtual volunteer opportunities, additional resources, and best practices for corporate volunteer programs during the coronavirus pandemic.
This resource will be updated, as CNJG and corporate members collect new information and opportunities to share with colleagues.
A report on perceptions of why Black professionals leave the field of philanthropy.
How the government can partner with impact investors to unleash new capital, talent and energy for maximum impact.
A CNJG member queried our listserves for sample questions (not included in the grant application) you might ask grantees or potential grantees during site visits. CNJG compiled these responses, and other documents members use.
Native Voices Rising is a joint research and re-granting project of Native Americans in Philanthropy and Common Counsel Foundation. This report focuses on the practices and challenges of community organizing and advocacy, focusing on the need for increased investment in and sustained support for American Indian, Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian communities.
Monmouth and Ocean County funders, join us at the PEEP at the Jersey Shore BlueClaws event! This is a time for connection and relationship building with people we don't always get a chance to see in the philanthropic and nonprofit world. Most importantly, this is for ALL levels of your organization, including those doing direct service and operations, and board members. This is a family-friendly event so feel free to bring your kids!
PEEP (started by Vu Le, writer of the blog, Nonprofit AF)—Party to Enhance Equity in Philanthropy - is a nationally celebrated movement to bring together nonprofit and philanthropic leaders to help break down the pervasive power dynamics in our work and a small tool to help us see each other in our full humanity.
Cost: Free for CNJG Members and Non-Member Grantmakers
This program is open to Monmouth and Ocean County grantmakers and nonprofits only.
This event is available to philanthropic and nonprofit professionals at no cost thanks to the generous support of members of the Monmouth-Ocean Roundtable of Funders, a program through the Council of New Jersey Grantmakers.

Twice a year, the YourCause team publishes our Industry Review focused on evaluating employee engagement and corporate social responsibility programs. This report uses performance data collected by the YourCause Employee Engagement platform between January and December of 2016. We identify trends, activities and benchmarks in employee engagement and corporate social responsibility. Our clients, industry peers, and other interested parties may use this data as a barometer for performance measurement.

This new report from CNJG and partners examines the response of foundations, corporations, and other institutional donors to the devastation wrought by Hurricane Sandy in October 2012. Numbering nearly 600, these funders have so far committed more than $380 million for relief, recovery and building efforts. The hard data and reflective observations in the report contribute to the growing body of knowledge that helps foundations and corporations be strategic and effective with their giving when disaster strikes.
Two years after the historic storm, Philanthropy & Hurricane Sandy: A Report on the Foundation & Corporate Response breaks down the allocation of dollars contributed thus far and offers perspective on the role of private giving in disaster response and lessons to be taken from this one. The report was published by the Foundation Center in partnership with the Council of New Jersey Grantmakers and Philanthropy New York, and with support from the Center for Disaster Philanthropy.
“Throughout the past two years, our exceptional nonprofit and funder community has taken on challenges they never imagined,” said Nina Stack, president of the Council of New Jersey Grantmakers. “These organizations continue to develop innovative solutions that other communities will learn from and build upon in future disasters.”
In addition to the report’s numerous funders, CNJG wishes to thank the PSEG Foundation for supporting this project.
This weekly conference call series welcomed New Jersey-based grantmakers along with national funders and provided an opportunity for grantmakers to hear from a wide range of experts in the field of disaster philanthropy. This series started on November 5, 2012, one week after Sandy struck New Jersey, and continued through March 25, 2013. The written summaries of each recording are listed below.