Dozens of local nonprofits will be on hand touting volunteer opportunities next week at the third annual Hudson County Volunteer Expo. The opportunities available span the range of issues and types of organizations, from community groups that work with young people, the elderly, the homeless, the abused, the environment, the arts and more. The free [...]
Citing a revenue shortfall and “severe cuts,” the Actors Shakespeare Company at New Jersey City University (ASC) announced this week that it has canceled the March-April run of The Tempest. The group will instead produce the show sometime later in the year, in order to allow more time “to raise the funds necessary to fulfill [...]
While the fate of the troubled Jersey City Museum remains unclear, a Jersey City-based nonprofit’s quest to purchase the museum’s Montgomery Street headquarters received a boost at last week’s City Council meeting.
As it approaches the two-decade mark, the Jersey City arts group Pro Arts says it is “at a crossroads,” and it is looking for feedback about how to best serve the city’s arts community going forward. The group, founded in 1994, is best known as the major force behind the annual Studio Tour, and it [...]
With all the snow that’s been falling, you might not be thinking of bicycling right now, but Jersey City’s bike advocacy group Bike JC sure is. Its first meeting of 2011 is set for tonight at Zeppelin Hall, and it is open to anyone interested in making bicycling in Jersey City easier and safer (the [...]
To plug an unexpected hole in its budget before the year ends, the world-renown Jersey City-based freeform radio station WFMU is taking an unusual pledge appeal to its listeners: if you give us $180,000 we’ll send our station manager aloft in a lawn chair. The nonprofit station, whose pledge drives are the stuff of near-legend [...]
Crossing Route 139 by foot during morning rush hour — a feat required to get from my home in the Heights to the Journal Square PATH — should be done only after ingesting caffeine. Dodging cars in that messy intersection requires cat-like reflexes and a certain level of awareness. Beau Cafe, a new coffee shop on Summit Avenue, helps prepare commuters for their daily trek, but as one of the shop’s managing partners explains, it does much more than that.
A Jersey City nonprofit that works with low-income children and teens is hoping to widen its reach and create new community ties with a “Get to Know Us” event Tuesday evening. The ten-year-old nonprofit New City Kids offers a number of programs, including the After School Center for Performing Arts, the free sailing school City [...]
Is the Jersey City live music scene dead? Given the hard times many have faced putting together a viable venue in recent years, one might be inclined to think that’s the case. It’s ironic, then, that the two biggest music shows of the month are taking place at a centuries-old cemetery whose occupants include veterans of the Revolutionary and Civil Wars.
The volunteer-run nonprofit organization founded in 2001 by Paul Mendoza and Miguel Cardenas has folded its operations into another local LGBT organization, Hudson Pride Connections Center. The move is the ultimate result of long-term planning that was recently being undertaken by both groups as they looked toward future economic sustainability.
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