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Beginning in October 2023, a group of funders got together and commissioned the Nonprofit Finance Fund (NFF) to facilitate a series of dialogues with Newark’s nonprofit community to learn how foundations can be supportive of their capacity...
From February 26-28, 2023, members of the NLC’s Mayoral Network on Community Safety and Violence Prevention, city representatives and resource guests were welcomed by Mayor Ras J. Baraka in Newark, New Jersey. Attendees saw firsthand the strides made...
In partnership with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the New Jersey Institute for Social Justice, CNJG invites funders to engage with the New Jersey Reparations Council's recommendations as a practical framework for coordination and action....
The Office of the Newark Philanthropic Liaison (NPL) —an innovative collaboration between the city of Newark and the Council of New Jersey Grantmakers (CNJG) —is tasked with harnessing interest, fostering greater effectiveness, and attracting...
As artificial intelligence (AI) and technological advances take on an increasingly prominent role in our society, BIPOC and immigrant communities face the threat of biases and outright hostilities being encoded and automated into surveillance,...
Theresa Jacks, President and CEO
...New Jersey’s lack of affordable, high-quality child care costs our state an estimated $5 billion each year in lost wages, tax revenue, and business productivity. No serious conversation about economic opportunity, workforce stability...
Date: Wednesday, June 18
Time: 8:00 a.m. to 4:...
CNJG joined over 350 delegates from across the country for Foundations on the Hill on February 23-26. The event included a policy conference followed by...
Narratives shape policy, sway elections, and determine whose voices are heard or silenced. Media is not just a communication tool: it is civic infrastructure, as essential to democracy as roads and schools. Yet the systems that shape our shared...
For 20 years, The Nicholson Foundation worked to advance meaningful change in safety net service systems in New Jersey. Its grantmaking journey is described in Changing Systems, Changing Lives: Reflecting on 20 Years. Through stories and related text...
Please join us as we kick-off our 2024 meetings with a discussion on the Vote 16 campaign. Last August, the New Jersey Institute for Social Justice released Let Us Vote: Why 16-and-17-Year...
New Jersey’s philanthropic community mourns the loss of Jeffery Vega, who passed away January 28....
Last year, GCIR piloted network huddles as a new type of a space for local funders—program officers, managers, and directors—to engage in shared learning, exchange information, and stay up to date as the policy landscape rapidly shifted. This year,...
One year from now the 2020 Census will be in full swing. This nationwide, constitutionally-mandated count, conducted once every ten years, is our opportunity to ensure that New Jersey residents are accurately counted to secure the resources needed to...
Confounded by what to do and how to be in your role right now? What does it mean to be focused on a vision of racial equity, well-being, gender justice, economic health when people, institutions, and the systems that have allowed most of us to at...
Deepening Philanthropic and Nonprofit Partnerships in New Jersey
Doing Good Better, a partnership of...
The Council of New Jersey Grantmakers, the New Jersey Center for Nonprofits, and Impala today announced the upcoming launch of the New Jersey Philanthropy Hub, a first-of-its-kind,...