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Private and public foundations can play an important role in advocacy by engaging in advocacy themselves and funding their grantees to advocate on their issues. After this workshop with Bolder Advocacy, your foundation will have a clear understanding of the kinds of advocacy activities you can safely engage in and best practices for grantmaking to give your grantees the most flexibility under the law for their advocacy efforts. Not sure how to make the case for funding advocacy? Uncertain whether you can fund grantees that lobby? Wondering whether your public or private foundation can speak out on a particular issue? This training answers these questions and more! The workshop is designed for foundation staff and trustees.

Participants will learn:

• Why public and private foundation should support advocacy;
• An overview of activities that constitute advocacy and public policy work;
• Various advocacy roles for foundations;
• The tax code’s definitions of lobbying;
• Activities that are exceptions to the definitions of lobbying, including those which private foundations can engage in;
• Rules for private and public foundation grants to nonprofits that lobby, including general support, specific project, and multi-year grants; and
• Grant agreement language that permits support for policy work.

This will be a virtual session; connection details will be provided upon registration.

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Igniting Equitable Systems Change Together

Date: Thursday, May 26
Time: 1:00 to 5:00 p.m.

On May 26, the Council brought together recognized thought leaders from philanthropy and nonprofits for a conversation exploring how the social sector can advance systems change.

Grantmakers and nonprofits grapple with complex, structural issues every day, and take on the difficult questions to move our collective work forward.

During a dynamic discussion, panelists shared strategies to empower proximate leaders, remove structural barriers and build the capacity of grassroots organizations, and shift mental models to challenge assumptions and strengthen nonprofit-funder relationships. After the panel, case study presenters highlighted three local examples of systems change, emphasizing the importance of cross-sector collaboration, collective action, and community engagement. Then, attendees gathered together for small group discussions to unpack key takeaways and discuss their own successes and challenges with systems change.

One of the most highly regarded convenings for social sector leaders in the state, the 2022 Virtual Spring Colloquium considered the power and cultural shifts needed to advance systems change through philanthropic and nonprofit partnership.

Attendees can revisit Whova to access event features such as session recordings, exhibitor virtual booths and sponsor pages, NJ Poetry Out Loud performances, and more.

What are the biggest needs and challenges New Jersey communities face as result of the pandemic?

• It starts with the basics: food and shelter, medical equipment such as masks for long-term care facilities, and digital access for remote education and medical screenings. For many immigrants and the undocumented community, this challenge is even greater.
• Parents of school-age children need support in navigating remote education and childcare challenges -- and balancing them with employment needs.
• People who’ve lost their jobs need to know how to find the right support services, and those services need to be accessible -- no technology or language barriers.
• Schools are having to re-imagine how they can open in the fall – if they can – with appropriate social distancing that requires changes to infrastructure and schedules.
• Organizations need support to retrofit their public spaces so they can serve the public safely.

How is CNJG leading efforts to prepare the philanthropic sector for an effective response?

• CNJG helped create the Disaster Philanthropy Playbook after Superstorm Sandy in 2012 and uses many of the lessons learned then to inform response and recovery plans for COVID.
• Almost immediately, CNJG began providing funder briefings, webinars, and other forms of information to the philanthropic community.
• With our members, CNJG created the COVID-19 Funder Learning Community for the numerous response funds that are serving New Jersey was established to:
  • Get timely updates on the latest pandemic developments
  • Share information about what services and help are needed most -- and where
  • Explore potential strategies for effective grantmaking that matches resources to needs and avoids duplication
  • Learn best practices from each other

How is the pandemic affecting New Jersey nonprofits?

• The COVID-19 crisis is having a significant and alarming financial and programmatic impact on the nonprofits relied on to care for those in need. According to the Center for Non-Profits Rapid Response Survey:
  • 83% cancelled programs or events and correspondingly lost revenue
  • 77% have budgetary implications related to strains on the economy
  • 52% have increased demands for services
  • 40% experienced a disruption in supplies or services provided by partners
  • 37% have an increase in or sustained absences of staff and volunteers
  • 31% have had layoffs or furloughs
• Many nonprofits lack the digital infrastructure needed to employees’ and volunteers’ sudden switch to remote work and many volunteers who do important work are no longer available.

How is New Jersey’s philanthropic sector responding to the needs of nonprofits and the people they serve?

• Many funders have streamlined the grantmaking process so nonprofits can either refocus grants or receive new funding expeditiously to provide immediate relief for those facing the most pressing situations.
• Many funders are reducing what they ask of nonprofit partners – for instance postponing reporting requirements, deferring site visits, and eliminating other demands on their time so they can focus efforts during this challenging time.
• Some are providing low- or no-interest loans or outright grants to small businesses and nonprofits to retrofit their facilities to keep essential workers and the people they serve safe.
• Several community foundations and other nonprofits have established NJ COVID-19 relief funds that make it safe and convenient for donors to give, and that direct resources to where they are needed most.
• The sector is committed to grounding its work in the Center for Disaster Philanthropy's key principles of grantmaking:
  • Resilience, to improve communities holistically and make them stronger than before a disaster.
  • Equity, to take historical injustices into account and inform investments.
  • Sustainability, to take into account a long-term view and factor in uncertainty.
  • Civic participation that equips and empowers those often left out to influence what happens in their communities.

How is CNJG responding to longstanding equity issues that the pandemic exposes and makes worse?

• Together with the Center for Non-profits in New Jersey, we put out a statement on behalf of the state’s philanthropic and nonprofit sectors, urging everyone to speak out against racism and discrimination in all forms.
• CNJG established a Racial Equity Task Force to eliminate any structural racism in New Jersey’s philanthropic community.
• Most of the larger COVID funds engaged community-based practitioners to assist in decision-making on grant awards, and CNJG is creating a local advisory group for the Learning Community.

What steps are being taken to make sure grants aren’t duplicative and that money is going where it’s needed most?

• CNJG encourages the philanthropic sector to use a shared mapping tool that shows how much money is being awarded and where. This tool helps grantmakers make informed decisions and helps to eliminate gaps in historically under-funded communities.
• The COVID-19 Funder Learning Community is a vehicle for building relationships and sharing information about what each funds is doing to support relief and recovery across the state.

What’s the best way for people to donate money for relief and recovery?

You can find a list of these New Jersey Relief and Recovery funds and their contact info here.

You don’t need to be a technologist to understand that Artificial Intelligence (AI) is changing our world, including philanthropy and the nonprofit sector. 

As you attend next month’s CNJG 2024 Spring Colloquium – A Conversation for the Social Sector on June 18, consider what philanthropy does best as the conversation unfolds. Philanthropy takes risks. Philanthropy tests new ideas and concepts, that can then be scaled. Philanthropy drives experimentation. Philanthropy convenes thought leaders, practitioners, and community voices, to engage in full and deliberate conversations.

We’re excited to welcome Jean Westrick, Executive Director of the Technology Association of Grantmakers (TAG), to moderate the morning panel session. TAG and Project Evident recently released their Responsible AI Adoption in Philanthropy framework to help grantmakers adopt AI in a manner that aligns with their mission. Jean will help us dig deeper into the framework during an afternoon session. Not only does the framework provide practical guidance, it is a clarion call for philanthropy to play a crucial role in advancing the responsible use of AI for nonprofit enablement. 

Understanding this seminal role, last year, ten major foundations announced a $200 million investment to ensure AI advances the public interest. The investment is centered around five areas of need including: ensuring AI advancements protect democracy and the rights and freedoms of all people, empowering workers to “thrive amid AI-driven changes,” and supporting the development of AI international norms and rules. 

Colloquium panelist Don Chen, President and CEO of the Surdna Foundation, recently spoke at the Partnership for AI’s 2024 Philanthropy Forum. There he discussed the importance of working with partners to make investments in responsible infrastructure. He expanded on these ideas, encouraging ongoing AI conversations to be reparative and healing, especially for racial equity and justice.

Governor Murphy created the New Jersey State Office of Innovation in 2018 to "improve the lives of New Jerseyans by solving public problems differently.”  Colloquium panelist Dave Cole, Chief Innovation Officer, in a recent StateScoop Priorities Podcast, shared his commitment to solving problems for NJ residents using human-centered design and leveraging AI to improve services. The practical and pragmatic conversations about AI are central to philanthropy’s role in harnessing technology for good. 

Our third panelist, Rachel Kimber, joined fellow social sector leaders in calling for philanthropy to move forward with “responsible AI development and adoption.” Published by the Center for Effective Philanthropy, the blog Responsible AI: How Philanthropy Can (and Should) Support the Movement outlines four critical concepts for philanthropy: drive sector-level vision, fund the back-end, develop guidelines, and invest in equitable innovations. 

I encourage you to review the resources we’re gathering on the Colloquium web area to further inform your thinking. 

While AI and analytical technologies are revolutionary tools reshaping industries, as Vilas Dhar, Patrick J. McGovern Foundation, said in an interview with the Chronicle of Philanthropyrecently, “These conversations are very rarely actually about technology.” In the article, How A.I. Could Solve Humanity’s Biggest Problems — If Philanthropy Catches Up, Dhar implores philanthropy to look closely at how AI is changing our world and challenges us to examine how philanthropy must change. Indeed, philanthropy has several roles to play, including fueling the big picture and visionary conversations, and helping to drill down on the more practical applications of AI for grantmakers and nonprofits in support of a just and equitable world.

Join us at the CNJG 2024 Spring Colloquium: A Conversation for the Social Sector - Empowering the Future: Harnessing AI and Data for Philanthropic Social Impact on Tuesday, June 18, to engage in these big, bold, and transformative conversations. 
 
We look forward to seeing you there!
 
Sincerely, 

Theresa Jacks, President and CEO
Council of New Jersey Grantmakers

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Theresa Jacks, President and CEO
Council of New Jersey Grantmakers

During 2023, CNJG gathered benefits information from our members to generate our 2023 New Jersey Philanthropy Benefits & Salary Summary Report. Members tell us that this report is one of the most important and effective benchmarking tools for our field. A statistically significant number of members completed our Benefits Report. We are grateful to those that completed the survey, which is a major investment of time, to help us gather this useful data.

The report consists of two sections:

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CNJG Benefits Survey
CNJG and our members want specific data about the benefits offered to their employees, board, and more. Therefore, CNJG created our triennial Benefits Survey that gathered this comprehensive data specific to New Jersey’s grantmaking community.

For the second time in this survey’s history, we asked for board and staff demographic data. As more attention is focused on racial equity in our work, it is helpful to benchmark this data in graphical form. We hope it sparks conversation at your organization.

Council on Foundations (CoF) Salary Survey
The salary survey was administered by our partners, the Council on Foundations. This annual nationwide effort by CoF (with the assistance of other Philanthropy-Serving Organizations across the country) benchmarks the salaries of employees at foundations, corporate giving programs, and other philanthropic organizations. CNJG encourages any and all members to complete this survey each year.

Salary information from CoF presents national, mid-Atlantic, and New Jersey data for over 40 staff positions. Salary ranges are only given for positions with five or more reporting organizations. To report on more New Jersey salary data, we hope more members will complete this annual survey.

CNJG reminds our members and other foundations across New Jersey to complete both surveys when they are available – CoF’s is EVERY YEAR, and CNJG’s is every three years. The more data we and CoF can gather, the better and more accurate the results will be for the philanthropic community both in the state and nationally.

Download the 2023 New Jersey Philanthropy Benefits & Salary Survey Summary Report here. You must be a member of CNJG and logged in to access the report.

CNJG's past Summary Reports may be found on our website:
2020 New Jersey Philanthropy Benefits & Salary Survey Summary Report, released in January 2021
2017 New Jersey Foundation Benefits & Salary Summary Report, released in September 2017
2014 New Jersey Foundation Benefits & Salary Summary Report, released in February 2015
2011 Mid-Atlantic Foundation Benefits & Salary Summary Report, released in June 2012

A working glossary of terms to help shape a common language for work in Community Capacity. This glossary is intended to help promote philanthropy's roles in building community capacity by defining core concepts and closely related terms.

The Council of New Jersey Grantmakers joins the Funders’ Committee for Civic Participation’s Funders Census Initiative, the United Philanthropy Forum, and philanthropy-serving organizations around the country in asking our members to commit to supporting and encouraging a fair and accurate census.

“Census Day,” April 1, 2020, is here and the time to act is now.

More than $800 billion annually in federal assistance to states, localities and families is distributed based on census data; yet historically, the census has missed disproportionate numbers of people of color, young children and the rural and urban poor, leading to inequality in political power and inaccessibility to public funding and private investment for these communities. Going into 2020, additional communities, including immigrants, refugees, unmarried women and the LGBTQ community are at risk of being missed.

Of that $800 billion, $17.56 billion distributed to our state is based on census data. Furthermore, in the 2010 census, return rates for New Jersey’s cities were very low: 55% in Newark, 50% in Irvington, 55% in Orange, 55% in Atlantic City, 56% in New Brunswick, 59% in Trenton, 60% in Paterson, and 61% in Camden. These communities are among those labeled Hard-to-Count (HTC). Being hard-to-count can lead to unequal political representation and unequal access to vital public and private resources for these groups and their communities. Our state has so much at stake, and we need to ensure a full, fair and accurate census. Without accurate census data, the communities you care about could see less investment in their vital public and private resources.

The Fund for New Jersey has created a website, which includes interactive maps to find Hard to Count areas, resources, and news. The Fund reminds us that almost everything we know about our communities comes from information collected during the census and its related surveys. Read The Fund for New Jersey’s policy paper, Toward a Fair and Accurate Census 2020 and a Timeline for Philanthropy, and download their checklist for outlining a number of ways philanthropy can support Census 2020.

The 2020 Census is facing unprecedented challenges, including years of underfunding, a climate of fear, and the challenges of the first “high tech” census.

Ways to Help

1. Review the Funder Menu of Options created in partnership by United Philanthropy Forum and the Funders Census Initiative (FCI 2020) to help funders identify what they can to do.
2. Join the Funders Census Initiative Working Group. As a working group member, you’ll have access to the core listserv for funders to connect on their work at the national, state and local levels. There is no cost, and you don’t need to be a FCCP member to join.
3. Sign up to get ongoing updates from the Census Bureau, including America Counts: Stories Behind the Numbers, the latest news, Tip sheets, and Stats for Stories. You can also partner with our Census Regional Office.
4. Talk to your grantees about the importance of a full and accurate 2020 Census, and what it means for their community and their work. Encourage them to get involved by sending them this message, and sharing this write up for use in their e-communications.
5. Advocate for a fair and accurate census, and for the resources to support a complete count in your community and statewide.
6. Share information on your website; via mailings, e-blasts and social media; and at your board and staff meetings to inform people why the census matters to your community and your grantees.
7. Join the Census 2020 NJ Coalition, a statewide outreach and awareness campaign to coordinate nonprofit and community-based efforts to ensure an accurate 2020 Census count in New Jersey. The Coalition is working together with the State of New Jersey Complete Count Commission and the U.S. Census Bureau to make sure the public has clear, accurate information about the importance of the upcoming Census.
8. Keep the Council of New Jersey Grantmakers up to date on what you are doing. Please contact Theresa Jacks, Deputy Director for more information.  

It is difficult to overstate the importance of a fair census count. When census information is not accurate, it threatens to muffle the voices of undercounted groups and regions, and undermine the basic political equality that is central to our democracy. Institutions across the country, including local and state governments, businesses, nonprofits and foundations, routinely rely on data from the census to allocate funding, define where services are delivered, and promote economic development. Thank you for your commitment to making sure that everyone counts!

Websites to Visit

• The Census Project
  A broad-based network of national, state, and local organizations that supports a fair and accurate 2020 Census and comprehensive American Community Survey (ACS — the modern version of the census “long form”). Participating stakeholders represent a diverse range of American sectors that rely on objective data for decision-making and promote civic engagement: business and industry; civil rights advocates; state and local governments; social service agencies; researchers and scientific associations; planners; foundations; and nonprofits focused on housing, child and family welfare, education, transportation, and other vital services.
• Funders Census Initiative
  A project of the Funders Committee for Civic Participation, a philanthropy-serving organization spearheading Census-related work and information for funders.
• United Philanthropy Forum
  The largest network serving philanthropy in America, consisting of regional and national philanthropy-serving organizations (PSOs). Through the Census 2020 Project, the Forum is working with members to mobilize regional funders to advocate for policy improvements for the 2020 census, and to raise awareness and understanding of the importance of a fair and accurate census count to philanthropy. CNJG is a member of the Forum.
• United States Census Bureau
  The Bureau's mission is to serve as the leading source of quality data about the nation's people and economy and is the federal government’s largest statistical agency. The Decennial Census is the once-a-decade population and housing count of all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the Island Areas as required by the U.S. Constitution. The results of the decennial census determine the number of seats for each state in the U.S. House of Representatives and are used to draw congressional and state legislative districts and to distribute more than $675 billion in federal funds each year.
• NJ Department of Labor and Workforce Development
  NJ's governmental department that works with the Census Bureau to conduct the census in New Jersey.
• Advocates for Children of New Jersey – Census 2020 NJ
• The Leadership Conference on Civil & Human Rights – 2020 Census

Resources to Use

• 2017 CNJG Conference – Luncheon Keynote: The Linchpin – Why the 2020 Census Matters
• Mapping Hard to Count (HTC) Communities for a Fair and Accurate 2020 Census
• The Census Project: Fact Sheets and Reports
• The Census Project: Monthly Updates
• The Census Project: Recent Media
• Census.gov: Community Outreach Toolkit
• NJ Complete Count Commission
• 2020 Census Operational Timeline
• Response Outreach Area Mapper
• Census Solutions Workshop Toolkit
• Map Showing Contact Strategies for Hard to Count Communities
• 2020 Census Complete Count Committees
• Get Out the Count Toolkit

Webinars to Watch

• What Funders Need to Know About Census 2020 Operations
• Johnson Center Podcast: This One Counts
• Brennan Center for Justice: The 2020 Census: What's at Stake
• Census Day 2019 Press Briefing (4/1/2019)
• FCI Briefing Series: Census 2020 Messaging Testing Results – presented by Color of Change
• FCI Briefing Series: Census 2020 Messaging Testing Results – presented by National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials
• FCI Briefing Series: Census 2020 Messaging Testing Results – presented by Asian Americans Advancing Justice
• FCI Briefing Series: Census 2020 Messaging Testing Results – presented on Messaging Studies with the Census Bureau
• FCI Briefing Series: Census 2020 Messaging Testing Results – presented by National Congress of American Indians
• FCI Briefing Series: Census 2020 Messaging Testing Results – presented by the Arab American Institute and American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee
• FCI Briefing Series: Census 2020 Messaging Testing Results – presented by San Joaquin Valley Health Fund: Census Research Project

Articles to Read

• CityLab: Ex-Census Director: Citizenship Question Is 'a Tremendous Risk' (2/27/2018)
• ProPublica: The Trump Appointee Behind the Move to Add a Citizenship Question to the Census (3/7/2018)
• FiveThirtyEight: A Million Children Didn’t Show Up In The 2010 Census. How Many Will Be Missing In 2020? (3/19/2018)
• Governing: A Census Citizenship Question Wouldn't Just Impact Blue States (3/28/2018)
• ScienceMag: 2020 census gets huge budget boost, but addition of citizenship question worries critics (3/27/2018)
• Governing: A Census Citizenship Question Wouldn't Just Impact Blue States (3/28/2018)
• TheIntercept: COUNT DOWN: How the Trump Administration Is Botching Its Only Trial Run for the 2020 Census (3/31/2018)
• ScienceMag: Trump officials claim they can avoid 2020 census problems caused by controversial citizenship question (4/13/2018)
• The Chronicle of Philanthropy: Foundations Push Census Turnout in Worrisome Times (5/7/2018)
• ScienceMag: More money, more worries: 2020 census plans continue to generate controversy (5/15/2018)
• The Census Project: Senate Appropriators Strongly Urged to Support House Level of Funding for 2020 Census in FY19 Appropriations (6/5/2018)
• The NonpPofit Times: Nonprofits Already Eyeing 2020 Census, $800 Billion At Stake 6/6/2018)
• NPR: Documents Shed Light On Decision To Add Census Citizenship Question (6/10/2018)
• The Census Project: June 2018 Census Project Update (7/10/2018)
• City Lab: A Visual History of the U.S. Census (7/29/2018)
• The Chronicle of Philanthropy: Every Person Counts: Why the Census Must Be Rescued (7/31/2018) - Subscription access
• Inside Philanthropy: Census 2020: How Is Philanthropy Responding to the Citizenship Question? (8/2/2018)
• The New York Times: Why the Government Wants to Know Your Citizenship Status (8/4/2018)
• Insider NJ: Rice Bill to Create NJ Complete Count Commission for 2020 Census Signed into Law (8/25/2018)
• Pacific Standard Magazine: Census Bureau Economists Provide More Evidence Against the Citizenship Question (8/31/2018)
• NJ Spotlight: State's Complete Count Commission Knows NJ Can't Afford a Sloppy Census (9/6/2018)
• NorthJersey.com: Paterson looks to ease immigrants’ fears that could depress its Census count. (9/19/2018)
• Governing: With 2020 Census Looming, Governments Face Many Unknowns (11/2018)
• City Lab: Would Top Census Officials Hand Over Citizenship Status Data? (11/20/2018)
• The Washington Post: Senate confirms new Census Bureau director as 2020 survey approaches (1/3/2019)
• NPR: Senate Confirms Trump's Census Bureau Director Nominee Steven Dillingham (1/9/2019)
• Press of Atlantic City: Census Complete Count Commission holds first meeting (1/10/2019)
• NPR: Judge Orders Trump Administration To Remove 2020 Census Citizenship Question (1/15/2019)
• GW Institute of Public Policy: Counting for Dollars 2020: The Role of the Decennial Census in the Geographic Distribution of Federal Funds (2/13/2019)
• The Census Project: Census Experts Commend Updated Study Showing Almost $9 Trillion Next Decade from Feds to States Depends on 2020 Census (3/8/2019)
• Nonprofit Quarterly: 3rd Judge Rejects Census Citizenship Question as US Supreme Court Date Looms (3/8/2019)
• NJ TV Online: NJ commission works toward ‘complete count’ for 2020 census (3/22/2019)
• NPR: What You Need To Know About The 2020 Census (3/31/2019)
• NJ Spotlight: NJ Urged to Put More Money and Speed into 2020 Census Preparations (4/1/2019)
• Inside Philanthropy: Census 2020: Inside Efforts to Make Sure Rural Communities Count (4/4/2019)
• Governing: In the Trump Era, Muslim Immigrants Distrust the Census (4/8/2019)
• Brookings : A year before the 2020 census, experts share four key insights (4/23/2019)
• NextCity: How Cities Plan to Save the Census (4/26/2019)
• Nonprofit Quarterly: Who Will Be Counted in the US Census? (4/29/2019)
• NJ Spotlight: Is NJ Prepared to Spend $9M - $1 per Person - to Ensure Accurate Census Count? (4/30/2019)
• Nonprofit Quarterly: Legal Advocates Speak Out about the Dangers of Weaponizing the Census (5/1/2019)
• NJ Spotlight: Census 2020: Innovation Could Boost Participation - But it Won't Come Cheap (6/11/2019)
• Science: In killing citizenship question, Trump adopts Census Bureau’s preferred solution to a thorny problem (7/11/2019)
• Governing: Citizenship Question Permanently Blocked From 2020 Census (7/17/2019)
• Federal Times: Why the 2020 census will have fewer personnel and offices (7/19/2019)
• CNBC: Experts are worried the census will once again undercount kids younger than 5 (7/29/2019)
• American Library Association: Libraries and the 2020 Census (8/1/2019)
• NJ Spotlight: Relief that $125M for upgrades to NJ libraries finally on the horizon (8/6/2019)
• NJ.gov: The State of New Jersey announces a grant program to support efforts to make sure that everyone in New Jersey is counted (9/6/2019)
• Nextgov: Census is Asking the Public to Help Fight Misinformation Ahead of 2020 (9/11/2019)
• US News: How Cities Can Make the 2020 Census a Success (9/12/2019)
• Federal News Network: Census Bureau stands up ‘fusion center’ to combat misinformation during 2020 count (9/12/2019)
• NPR: Census Bureau Fights To Prevent Spread Of Misinformation (9/13/2019)
• Reddit: Everything you wanted to know about the 2020 census (but didn't know who to ask) (10/13/2019)
• NJ Spotlight: Efforts Underway to Maximize Census Count in New Jersey (10/18/2019)
• NJ Spotlight: Census Bureau Needs 45K Temporary Workers in NJ for 2020 Count (10/23/2019)
• NJ Spotlight: Working to Overcome Census Limitations to Make New Jersey’s Count Count (12/12/2019)