Publication Date: May, 2012
This report highlights three philanthropic efforts to build the capacity of local communities in the West - The Ford Family Foundation’s Ford Institute Leadership Program, the Northwest Area Foundation’s Horizons Program, and the Orton Family Foundation’s Heart and Soul Community Planning Program.
Publication Date: October, 2015
What comes after “strategic...?” If you said, “planning,” you’re not alone. And for many leaders of community foundations, especially small ones who don’t have the time or money for a big process, anxiety is the feeling that follows. If that’s the case, this guide is for you.
It invites you to test-drive some activities to bring your current program, operations and community leadership strategies into focus before you decide whether to create a plan or not. It helps you discover ongoing strategic practices and decide whether to keep them or not. If you already have done a strategic plan, and it is languishing on a shelf, this guide will help you refresh it.
PART A: Good Strategy Takes Practice (Not Just Planning)
PART B: Do Your Discovery
PART C: Jumpstart Your Strategy Narrative
PART D: Bring It Together
Looking To What’s Next
... holiday season – including the Community Foodbank of New Jersey. NJM also is making contributions to organizations ...
The Victoria Foundation in Newark, New Jersey, has announced grants totaling $12.8 million in 2024 ...
Publication Date: August, 2020
... systems. Some of these groups turn to intermediaries—fiscal sponsors and donor intermediaries—to provide ... are smaller and geographically isolated, struggle to find fiscal sponsors and other intermediaries that share their ... with a high capacity for scaling services and distributing resources and funds. Though equity values are important to ...
... learn together at the pre-meeting workshop , welcome new members, attend the annual business meeting of members to ... a dynamic discussion related to an important topic for New Jersey’s philanthropic sector. The Annual Meeting & Holiday ... learning doesn’t stop - we’ve also curated several resources to help inform your collaborative efforts. ...
Publication Date: January, 2016
... of the Center for Disaster Philanthropy and Council of New Jersey Grantmakers in association with the United ...
Publication Date: May, 2014
When considering how to improve health outcomes for low-income individuals, most people think about providing access to good medical care and keeping the cost of that care as low as possible. What people rarely think about is the connection between good health and quality affordable housing.
For instance, when families have high housing payments, they have less money to buy nutritious food or to pay for medical care, making them more vulnerable to chronic illnesses. And, when individuals don't have stable housing, research has found that they are more likely to engage in risky behaviors that can make them sick. Sometimes it's a person's home itself that makes them sick, if it exposes them to toxins like lead, or to insect or rodent infestations.
This edition of What Funders Need to Know explores these connections and highlights some promising practices by both government and business that help low-income individuals get housed, stay healthier, and lower overall costs.
Ultimately, affordable housing is fundamental to improving health outcomes for low-income people. For funders interested in housing or in health, we suggest four ways to bolster these connections.
Publication Date: March, 2020
Wouldn’t it be nice if you could fund a single project that would have a positive impact throughout all of your grantees’ programs and services? There is: technology capacity building. Properly supported, the right technologies can build your grantees’ effectiveness and efficiency and multiply the impact of your other grants and programs. Many foundations are reluctant to support technology projects. As a result, many nonprofits are reluctant to directly ask for that support.
Tech Impact Idealware created this guide as a resource to bridge that gap.
Who We Are CNJGlogoTr.png The Council of New Jersey Grantmakers is a community of practice for ... in which individual donors pool their money and other resources, and decide together how and where to give them ... and other disadvantaged people and communities join the economic mainstream. CDFIs that have any size of grantmaking ...
... a $560,000 donation to the Career Services Center at New Jersey City University to aid in the effort to help students ... commitment to help advance racial equality and create economic opportunity by focusing on priority areas of ...
... Some 102 grants totaling over $5.5 million were awarded to New Jersey-based nonprofit organizations working to make a direct ... totaling $8.3 million supported organizations in upstate New York, Pennsylvania, and North Carolina, regions connected ...
... to the group. Discuss and brainstorm issues related to New Jersey grantmaking. Request assistance on a specific topic, ... Monmouth & Ocean Roundtable of Funders Newark Funders New Jersey Census Funders Paterson Funders Racial Equity ...
... CNJG members are eligible to receive a 20% discount on new print and digital subscriptions to this magazine for ... Online Knowledge Center & Webinars Access cutting edge resources in family philanthropy through discounted ... Get a discount of 25% off the subscription price for new subscriptions for CNJG members. Every day, Inside ...
... we can work more effectively with our partners in the new year. Together, the social sector has the power, resources, and know-how to respond to our communities’ ... The Prudential Foundation – Sustaining Sponsor, New Jersey Health Initiatives – Speaker Sponsor, Princeton Area ...
... and creating a more equitable higher education system for New Jersey students. During this program, we’ll hear from ... community colleges as a pathway to success for students in New Jersey, and philanthropy’s role in supporting more ...
... of its revenue from government grants and contracts, this new requirement is a game changer. Nina Stack wrote a piece ... same level of services, nonprofits will seek additional resources from the philanthropic sector to make up the ... help spread awareness and enforce the regulations. In New Jersey, the New Jersey Center for Nonprofits has been teeing ...
... Foundation: $78,000 grant to be paid over three years; New Jersey Community Capital: $25,000 grant; Wilmington ... their communities through revitalization, business economic empowerment, education, leadership development and ...
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 granting to a district.
... Family Promise of Warren County (Phillipsburg, New Jersey), Cypress Hills Local Development Corporation ... the threat of home loss while ensuring homeowners have the resources and resilience they need to sustain long-term ...
