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The Rippel Foundation, a national nonprofit operating foundation focused on health system transformation, is pleased to announce grants to nine organizations working to advance health and well-being in New Jersey and other local communities. Nominated by the Rippel Board and staff members, each organization has received $25,000 in unrestricted funds, which will be used toward general operating and programmatic support.
“As an operating foundation, Rippel is particularly delighted to be able to provide support to organizations that are advancing equitable, sustainable approaches to health and well-being in their communities. These organizations embody the principles and culture of stewardship that Rippel is dedicated to promoting—creating the conditions that all people need to thrive by focusing on vital conditions like access to care, stable housing, food security, a healthy environment, employment, and educational opportunity,” said Laura Landy, president and CEO of The Rippel Foundation. “Rippel has a 70-year history and strong roots in New Jersey, and our work has had a transformative impact on communities throughout the nation. It is gratifying to know that these funds will contribute to the well-being of our neighbors here in our own backyard as well as residents in other deserving local communities.”
During 2021 — the second year of the COVID-19 pandemic — 63 distinct charitable organizations in New Jersey and New York received donations totaling $706,325 from the KearnyBank Foundation. The funds were contributed across four specific categories: Education, Quality of Life, Housing and Community.
The five largest contributions were $65,000 to Junior Achievement of New Jersey; $50,000 to Habitat for Humanity of Greater Newark; $50,000 to Chilton Medical Center Foundation; $50,000 to the Kip Center; and $30,000 to the African American Chamber of Commerce of New Jersey.
In the Fairfield-based financial institution’s four categories of giving, $227,525 was granted to organizations under the Quality of Life heading, with $197,300 going to Education, $177,500 to Housing and $104,000 to Community.
“Particularly given the pandemic experience of the past two years, we embrace every opportunity to provide grants through the KearnyBank Foundation,” Craig Montanaro, Kearny Bank’s CEO and president, stated. “We’re able to contribute to these deserving charities because of our company’s ongoing success, and we never take for granted how fortunate we are to be in this position.”
The New Jersey Arts and Culture Renewal Fund has awarded nearly $600,000 in grants to nonprofits that will use the funds to help artists, teaching artists and history professionals recover from the financial devastation of the pandemic.
The grants, the third round of funding awarded by NJACRF, brings the grant total to more than $4.5 million in support to 172 nonprofits in the arts and culture sector. The fund, founded in 2020 as a way to help the arts during the pandemic, is hosted by the Princeton Area Community Foundation.
Jeremy Grunin, co-chair of the NJACRF and president of the Grunin Foundation, said the grants correspond to a name for the organization – which now views itself as a vehicle for renewal.
“Recovery to renewal signifies a shift from crisis support to an opportunity to change the actual system itself,” he said. “We always knew that smaller nonprofits most vulnerable to disruptions and those historically underfunded prior to the pandemic were going to need longer-term support.
“The New Jersey Arts and Culture Renewal Fund will create an additional resource of fast and flexible funding that wasn’t previously available – helping to build a much stronger arts, cultural, and historical ecosystem in New Jersey.”
The grants announced today total $592,501 and will be awarded to nonprofits that will act as intermediaries, re-granting the funds to artists, teaching artists, and history professionals.
A year after kicking off an initiative to improve nutrition at schools in its hometown of Camden, Campbell Soup Co. is getting high marks. And over the next five years, the soup and snack giant plans to invest $5 million in Full Futures, a sweeping effort to make sure students are well nourished and ready to thrive — both in the classroom and outside of it.
Armed with research linking school meals and healthy diets to academic success, Campbell executives saw an opportunity to effect change by leveraging the expertise and resources of numerous partners to advance developments in nutrition programming and cafeteria infrastructure across a school district that serves 11,000 students.
Working in partnership with the Camden City School District, as well as several nonprofit and corporate entities, Campbell set out to improve how kids eat at school through cafeteria equipment upgrades, expanded meal programs, nutrition education, reformulated menus and equitable sourcing of local, fresh produce.
Campbell recently reported on its progress with Full Futures, as well as next steps planned to keep the momentum going during the next four years of the campaign.
The Princeton Area Community Foundation awarded about $2 million in Community Impact and COVID-19 Relief & Recovery Fund grants to local nonprofits.
More than 60 organizations working on a broad variety of needs in the community, including arts education, community building, education, food insecurity, health, supporting senior citizens and other vulnerable populations, and youth development received this funding, made possible by generous community contributions.
Funding was mainly unrestricted, giving organizations an opportunity to address the challenges of economic uncertainty due to the pandemic and inflation. Unrestricted grants in this round provide the flexibility organizations need to use the funding where it is most needed, which will help them build financial and programmatic resiliency.
“These nonprofits are doing impactful work in region, helping the most vulnerable among us,” Jeffrey Vega, CEO and president of the Community Foundation, said. “We are able to award these grants thanks to generous donors who have created funds over the last 30 years to support our community grantmaking and leadership.”
Nonprofit funder GreenLight Fund Greater Newark today announced a $1.2M investment to address housing and food insecurity by bringing the two innovative engagement models of Housing Connector and Food Connect to Greater Newark. Over the next four years, Housing Connector and Food Connect have established goals to house 3,400 and serve 55,000 Greater Newark residents, respectively.
“Newark has made great strides in addressing housing instability and food insecurity. Yet we heard from the community about the significant need to facilitate opportunity for all residents and households to secure shelter and affordable, healthy meals,” said GreenLight Fund Greater Newark Executive Director Tish Johnson-Jones, JD. “As we look ahead to National Homelessness & Food Insecurity Awareness Month in November, GreenLight Fund Greater Newark is proud to announce a simultaneous investment in two proven, innovative models that address the interconnected barriers of food and housing insecurity, Housing Connector and Food Connect. By harnessing technology and working within the community to provide targeted support, Housing Connector and Food Connect will help house and provide quality, healthy food for more residents and their families in Newark.”