COVID-19
The foundation details its giving for COVID-19 related causes and how it changed their grantmaking to deal with the pandemic.
In the Garden State, the financial institution is partnering with Bergen County’s United Way, HomeFront, Interfaith Neighbors, United Way of Greater Newark and Trenton Area Soup Kitchen as part of a nationwide effort to make distributions to communities disproportionally impacted by COVID-19.
West Trenton-based NJM Insurance Group has committed $50,000 to the New Jersey Pandemic Relief Fund’s Trenton Wi-Fi Initiative.
With a focus on small New Jersey communities and geographic areas of the state that have less access to funding, New Jersey Health Initiatives recently selected 13 community-based organizations to receive grants totaling $400,000 to address immediate needs such as food, housing and income assistance, and social isolation in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Programs for Parents announced the launch of a $112,000 Home Grown Home-Based Child Care Emergency Fund, an application-based relief program to award grants to 180 registered family child care providers and 120 family, friend and neighbor providers impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic in Essex County.
The William Penn Foundation announced two grants supporting immediate economic relief and future work opportunity in the region.
Wells Fargo announced the details of its $400 million effort to help small businesses that have been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic keep their doors open.
SUEZ North America gave $120,000 and PPE to Hackensack Meridian to support research and the network’s response to COVID-19.
M&T Bank has invested $1 million in support of New Jersey Community Capital’s Garden State Relief Fund, which provides working capital loans to small businesses and nonprofits negatively impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Citi and the Citi Foundation have committed more than $100 million to date in support of COVID-19-related community relief and economic recovery efforts globally.
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