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 [...]
When Buckley started her tenure as executive director in early October, the museum was at yet another major crossroads in the institution’s history of financial struggles and changing leadership, facing a decline in corporate donations, residual debt and a decrease in municipal funding. She recently talked to JCI about her plans to move the museum forward.
Writing in the magazine Nonprofit Quarterly, Rick Cohen takes a look at what Chris Christie’s victory means for urban nonprofits. Noting that Christie ran as “the candidate of the suburbs,” he asks the question: “Should nonprofits serving the residents of Trenton, Camden, Newark, and Jersey City be concerned?”
His answer? “[It] depends on where you sit [...]
A high-water mark by which open format radio stations around the globe measure themselves, WFMU has been called at one time or another the best radio station in the country by the Village Voice, CMJ and Rolling Stone.
The Jersey City Episcopal Community Development Corporation (JCECDC) has received a $75,000 grant to support affordable housing initiatives from the TD Charitable Foundation’s annual “Housing for Everyone” grant competition.
Specifically, the money will go to JCECDC’s Neighborhood Stabilization Program, which calls for the development of 93 units of affordable mixed-income housing, housing education and foreclosure [...]
“At WFMU we’ve always prided ourselves on being able to support ourselves on one pledge drive a year, plus whatever we can scrape together by selling roses outside the Holland Tunnel,” station manager Ken Freedman writes. “But that was before the great recession. Before we fell over $100,000 short of our goal during our March [...]
The Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation has announced its 2009 grants, including $80,000 to three Jersey City nonprofits. The grants are among the 220 the foundation gave out, totaling about $10.1 million.
Total giving for the Morristown-based foundation, which has lost a third of its assets due to the recession, was down sharply this year, and its [...]
Photo: Chi Modu
Editor’s note: This story appeared in the Summer/Fall 2009 issue of NEW. You can download the entire issue here.
At times it may seem that Grace Church Van Vorst has two personalities — as a church and an art/performance space — but a creative, open-minded, loving spirit is the common thread running through its [...]
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