... these grantees for another year, we’re investing in long-term impact,” said Chris Dagget, Board Chair and Interim ...
... a result of the Foundation’s strategy of forming long-term, trusting relationships with grantees. Grants approved from January through June included a combined $4.2 million to organizations working in New Jersey and North ... areas of interest. Additional grants, totaling over $4.7 million, supported organizations in Connecticut, New ...
... root causes of local and systemic issues, fostering long-term change. Cost : This event is free for CNJG Members who ...
... started on September 9, 2013 and concluded on November 4, 2013. The audio files of each recording are listed below. ... Recovery Programs with Stacy Bonnaffons (9/30/13) Long Term Recovery Issues and Strategies (9/23/13) Update on Statewide Progress of Long Term Recovery (9/16/13) With the Group Chairs from Bergen, ...
... NJ Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster, NJ’s Long Term Recovery Group Leaders, and NJ’s leading nonprofit ... We heard insights from service providers on the long term effects of Sandy. Several Long Term Recovery Groups described some of their ongoing ...
Publication Date: August, 2025
CNJG's President's Reports
... Sandy NJ Relief Fund & Report on Ocean/Monmouth Tour (3/4/13) Christopher Kaufman Ilstrup, Vermont Community ... Disasters and Post Hurricane Sandy (2/4/13) FEMA's Long Term Recovery and Capacity Building Team (1/28/13) Reports from NJ's Long Term Recovery Groups and Environmental Leaders Meeting ...
... we elected three new board members for their first 3-year term, as well as re-electing board members for a second term. Welcome and congratulations to new board members Marcy ... Doing Good Better clearly falls within the realm of goal 4, expanding and establishing partnerships and collaborations ...
... by Hurricane Dorian. This fund focuses on medium- and long-term recovery, with the understanding that individuals and ... aid and relief for Hurricane Dorian for both short-term and long-term relief. Sadly, CNJG’s post Sandy work and the ...
Publication Date: March, 2008
A sample document detailing the core values of the Betty and Davis Fitzgerald Foundation including restrictions on participation on nonprofit/grantee boards.
Publication Date: April, 2013
Publication Date: October, 2020
... way to manage a response to both urgent and longer-term needs. Balancing Speed, Equity, and Impact during a ...
Publication Date: July, 2022
Foundations are systems. They have their own cultures and related assumptions, norms, standards, and practices. All of these personal, social, and structural factors affect our ability to learn.
This tool is to help foundations take stock of their learning needs and opportunities with a dispassionate (evaluative) look at themselves as systems and how people work within them.
The tool is based on the work of systems theorist Donella Meadows. Her work resonates because it recognizes both systemic constraints and possible leverage points for addressing them. Meadows identifies a series of leverage points for changing a system, ordered from least to most powerful. We adapted her work to show how each lever can reinforce learning in an organization or system.
Use the tool to examine the list of 12 leverage points, ordered in terms of their power for shifting a system to support learning, from weakest (1) to strongest (12). Higher leverage points produce stronger, broader, more durable change.
According to Meadows, we often are disappointed in the results of systems change efforts because we tend to tweak the least powerful levers in the system — such as skill building or the flow of resources or information. We find this can be true with learning in philanthropy, where many foundations support learning with tools and training alone.
Which leverage points are you currently using to support learning in philanthropy? Where else can you push to make that support stronger?
Publication Date: January, 2014
... your strategies and outcomes. Progress toward long-term goals is observable in interim measures. Setting targets ...
Publication Date: June, 2013
... often provided by direct care workers – an over-arching term that captures a number of different occupations, but in ...
... was a landmark initiative looking at the systemic, long term fiscal challenges facing all levels of government in New ... New Jersey governors. This Leadership Group included 4 former Attorney Generals, 3, former Commissioners, 2 former ...
... city at special August meeting. Just 30 days into his term, the Mayor called on the Newark Philanthropic Liaison ...
... option for employees, going fully virtual for the long-term, or supporting nonprofit operations in the current ...
... a landmark effort looking at the systemic, long term fiscal challenges facing all levels of government in New ...
... with the Foundation, which holds a philosophy of long-term investments in effective programs. The Foundation’s ... Foundation’s home county. Additional grants totaling $8.4 million supported organizations in Connecticut, New York, ...
