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The Liberty Science Center’s School Residency Program, which creates a focused 2-4 day learning experience for public school students centered on a chosen subject, recently received a $15,000 donation from The Provident Bank Foundation, the charitable arm of the Jersey City-based community bank. The residency program, which supports a standards-based classroom curriculum and multiple learning [...]

As Art House Productions prepares to begin its 10th year of work this fall, founder Christine Goodman — a staple of Jersey City’s cultural scene — will finally be coming on board full-time as the organization’s first official staff member, beginning August 1.
“I believe that every step toward formalization taken by every Jersey City [...]

Hudson County’s only program dedicated to providing direct services for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning (LGBTQ) youth between the ages of 13-19 is facing a funding crisis, and it is turning to the public for help sustaining operations.
The YouthConnect program, which is run by Hudson Pride Connections Center (HPCC), lost 85 percent of its [...]

Jersey City’s Alfa Demmellash and Alex Forrester will receive honorary doctorate degrees from New Jersey City University (NJCU) at the school’s commencement ceremony on Wednesday, May 12, at the IZOD Center in the Meadowlands.
Demmellash and Forrester are the co-founders and CEO and COO, respectively, of Rising Tide Capital, the Jersey City nonprofit that supports underserved [...]

- High School Sports Axed at County Tech: As part of the Hudson County Schools of Technology’s $45.7 budget passed late last week, the entire athletics departments at County Prep in Jersey City and High Tech High School in North Bergen have been eliminated.
- JC Trying to Get Out of Water Deal: In the 1920s, [...]

The conventional wisdom says that as more people lose their jobs, more people turn to volunteering as a way to gain skills, get out of the house and generally feel better about life. Not so, said the National Conference on Citizenship in a survey released last year. The group found that 72 percent of Americans [...]

- NJ Transit Fare Hikes May be ‘Adjusted’: NJ Transit’s executive director says that the amount of the proposed fare hike will likely be lowered. “At this time, a 25-percent increase is an extraordinary, extraordinary burden, so we’ll take that into consideration,” Jim Weinstein says, adding that the adjustment won’t likely be huge. Still, he [...]

As we noted in this morning’s News Roundup, the Puerto Rican Family Institute plans on using a $30,000 grant from the Horizon Foundation for New Jersey to fund its Diabetes Outreach program. But three other programs operating in Jersey City received grant money from the foundation as well as part of $1.9 million in grants [...]

Jewish Family Service of MetroWest (JFS), which is based in Florham Park but has a branch office on Bergen Avenue that serves Jersey City, has received a $50,000 grant from the Merck Foundation Neighbor of Choice initiative to support their work serving children and adolescents in need of mental health counseling and intervention.
JFS says the [...]

The Jaycees, a nonprofit community organization that teaches leadership skills to young adults through service, has created a new chapter in Hudson County. The Hudson County Jaycees was incorporated on Dec. 4 and held its first meeting on Dec. 7. Hoboken resident Zach Edelman is the new organization’s president.
“The new generation of Hudson County [...]