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About Us

Mission

The H. Hovnanian Family Foundation commits its support primarily to the Armenian community, both in Armenia and in the United States, and in New Jersey, with a focus on Monmouth and Ocean Counties, through existing non-profit programs and institutions that have a long-standing history in and provide value and impact to these regions of the world. In addition, where gaps exist in fulfilling its mission in these areas, the Foundation may take on initiating or running its own programs. Through grants, scholarships, and program-related investments, our primary areas of focus include education, healthcare, arts/culture, volunteerism, ecotourism, youth development, entrepreneurship, and promotion of Western values such as transparency.

Guiding Principles

• To increase quality access to healthcare and to update the infrastructure of vocational institutions in Monmouth and Ocean Counties of New Jersey. 
• To invest in furthering the education and practical work experience of the best and brightest next generation of forward-looking students who can envision and articulate their role in Armenia’s further development. 
• To the greatest extent possible, initiatives that include solutions that address priorities with a built-in multiplier effect such as new employment opportunities or increased income revenue for the local economy, are what excite us most. 
• To engage more deeply and strategically with innovative citizens who seek to improve the livelihood of their local community through innovative projects that can be further replicated for the greater good.  
• To foster creativity that helps bring innovative solutions to long-standing community-related challenges. 
• To increase personal ties and the level of engagement between the Diaspora and Armenia via common shared experiences means the likelihood of a shared common vision, collaboration, and action taken is heightened, all necessary contributors to Armenia reaching its potential.    
• To support all levels of the repatriation process for Armenia’s long-term economic development.  

Mission

Our mission is to protect, enhance and promote the vital water and other natural and cultural resources of the New Jersey Highlands to sustain current and future generations.

Specifically, our focus is on:

• Safeguarding the water resources, ecological integrity, biodiversity, and the cultural and scenic resources of the New Jersey Highlands.
• Promoting the implementation of a strongly protective Highlands Regional Master Plan.
• Faithful implementation of the Highlands Water Protection and Planning Act, and the promulgated regulations of NJDEP and other agencies.
• Increasing local, state, federal and private sources of funding for land conservation and stewardship in the region, and promoting better planning, growth management and land acquisition strategies.
• Educating the public and decision-makers on, and serving as an information source for, New Jersey Highlands cultural and natural resource protection.
• Creating strong partnerships and alliances with organizations and individuals to effectively protect, preserve and enhance the New Jersey Highlands.

New Jersey Highlands Coalition: Small Grants - Emergency Funding

Each year the New Jersey Highlands Coalition awards a number of grants to assist grassroots organizations working on projects located within the New Jersey Highlands or associated with protecting New Jersey Highlands resources.

Grant Amount

Grants will be awarded up to a maximum of $5,000. Applicants are encouraged to think carefully about their request, and make sure they fully justify the amount requested.

The Healthcare Foundation of NJ Grant

Our Mission

The mission of the Healthcare Foundation of New Jersey is to improve the health and well-being of vulnerable, underserved populations in greater Newark and the Jewish Community of MetroWest NJ, elevate the quality of community healthcare, reduce disparities in access, and promote the infusion of compassion and humanism into our healthcare system.The Foundation seeks to seed new initiatives, identify and expand existing healthcare programs, support appropriate clinical and medical research, promote medical education to positively impact its targeted communities, and engage in partnerships to foster its goals.Important Attributes of the Grant Proposal

Please note that the Foundation receives more requests for funding than it has available funds to support many worthwhile projects. In reviewing applications for funding, the trustees and staff of the Foundation are sensitive to the following six concerns:

• Mission Appropriateness: A thoughtfully-designed proposal will demonstrate how the project will have a positive impact on the health and well-being of underserved populations within the communities in our catchment area. We welcome requests from healthcare/mental health providers, community-based organizations, affinity groups, and neighborhood agencies that can demonstrate the capacity for community engagement and cultural competency in serving clients or constituents. Initiatives may address clinical care needs; behavioral health; health-related prevention or promotion initiatives; and health education/literacy. For a more detailed view of our grantmaking by health area, please click here.
• Potential for Systems Impact: The Foundation seeks proposals that promise innovation and change or a significant enhancement of existing services. Applications that can demonstrate measurable quantitative as well as qualitative outcomes mitigating long-standing barriers to health and healthy living will be favored. In addition, we look for the ways in which the applicant partners with and works collaboratively with key stakeholders and community groups.
• Plan for Assessment and Evaluation: Proposals should clearly identify the target population(s), the numbers of clients served, and the specific outcomes grantees seek to achieve, both within the grant period and longer term. The Project Evaluation Chart (logic model) is a key component of the proposal, and it illustrates the direct relationship between program objectives, activities, measures for data collection, and the outcomes. The strength of a plan to measure and prove the impact of a project will be a key consideration.
• Potential for Fit/Partnership: The Foundation seeks grantee partners that are ably led, strive to empower those they serve, and work collaboratively in their communities. Potential grantees should be able to demonstrate a track record of programmatic integrity and success. Grantees are expected to meet high standards of governance, accountability, and fiscal management. At all times, Foundation trustees and staff strive to be respectful, responsive, transparent and collaborative, and we look for the same in our grantees.
• Grant Budget: The budget request should be commensurate with its anticipated impact. Indirect or overhead costs are not automatically funded and are considered on a case-by-case basis.
• Sustainability: Grantees should always demonstrate how they are working toward supporting the development, implementation, and sustainability of promising programs. The plan for sustainable funding beyond HFNJ’s support plays a critical role in the proposal review. The Foundation allocates funding on a yearly basis and may allow some organizations to submit renewal requests one year after an initial grant award. In such cases, a grantee needs to demonstrate progress in the first grant year and demonstrate how additional support will further the project.

Blavatnik National Awards for Young Scientists

The Blavatnik National Awards honor America’s most innovative young faculty-rank scientists and engineers.

These awards celebrate the past accomplishments and future potential of young faculty members working in the three disciplinary categories of Life Sciences, Physical Sciences & Engineering, and Chemical Sciences.

Every year, one Blavatnik National Awards Laureate in each disciplinary category will receive $250,000 in unrestricted funds, and additional nominees will be recognized as Finalists.

Nominations are accepted from an invited group of research universities, independent research institutions, academic medical centers, and government laboratories from around the United States, as well as from the Awards’ own Scientific Advisory Council, composed of renowned science and technology leaders. Past Laureates of the Blavatnik National Awards are also invited to submit nominations. The program expands on an awards program, started in 2007, for young scientists in New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut.

Members of the Jury responsible for selecting the Blavatnik National Awards honorees are some of the nation’s most distinguished scientists. Both the Blavatnik National Awards Scientific Advisory Council and Jury include Nobel Laureates, National Medal of Science recipients, and National Academy of Sciences members.

The Blavatnik National Awards are conferred at a formal ceremony in New York City each fall.

Evaluation Criteria

Nominees and their work as independent investigators will be evaluated according to the following criteria:

• Quality: The extent to which the work is reliable, valid, credible, and scientifically rigorous.
• Impact: The extent to which the work addresses an important problem, advances scientific progress, and is influential in the nominee’s field, related fields, or beyond, and/or has the potential to benefit society.
• Novelty: The extent to which the work challenges existing paradigms, establishes a new field or considerably expands on an existing field, employs original methodologies or concepts, and/or pursues an original question.
• Promise: The nominee has potential for further significant contributions to science, and the research program will generate further impactful and novel discoveries.

Core Mission Grant

Impact100 South Jersey is a women’s collective giving group that seeks to bring together over 100 women as members who make $1,000 contributions that will be used to give high-impact grants to local organizations. The goal is to once a year give a minimum of $100,000 to organizations that are thoroughly vetted and selected by Impact100 South Jersey members.

Impact100 South Jersey is part of a growing international movement that empowers women to achieve a transformational change in their community.

Focus Areas

We have three focus areas for our grant applications:

Women, Children and Families

• Projects that strengthen the lives of women, children, (including teens) or families.

Education

• Projects that advance or improve access to learning opportunities for children, teens or adults.

Community Health and Wellbeing

• Projects that seek to meet the basic needs of community members, or otherwise provide significant opportunities for improving physical or mental health.

Schumann Fund for New Jersey Grant

Program Priorities

The Schumann Fund for New Jersey is a tax-exempt, private foundation, incorporated as a corporation not for pecuniary profit under the laws of the State of New Jersey.

Schumann Fund program priorities fall into three categories:

• Affordable homes & healthy communities: Foster affordable homes, economic mobility, and healthy, resilient communities for children and families.
• Early childhood & education: Support low-income children and families of color to thrive through opportunities in early childhood development and youth education.
• Child welfare & youth justice: Advance reforms in systems affecting children and youth, such as the child welfare, juvenile justice, and immigration systems, to support racial equity and youth justice.

We support organizations engaged in a range of complementary strategies, including:

• Organized and engaged communities
• Effective programs that center low-income children and families of color
• Equitable public policy

Agricultural Land Easements (ALE)

The Agricultural Conservation Easement Program (ACEP), Agricultural Land Easements (ALE) component is a voluntary program that provides an opportunity for eligible partners to receive financial assistance to purchase agricultural land easements targeted at working agricultural lands.

These perpetual easements prevent productive working lands from being converted to non-agricultural uses and maximize protection of land devoted to food production. Eligible lands include cropland, grassland, pastureland, and nonindustrial private forestland. Each easement is required to have an agricultural land easement plan that promotes the long-term viability of the land.

Under the Agricultural Land component, NRCS may contribute up to 50 percent of the fair market value of the agricultural land easement. Where NRCS determines that grasslands of special environmental significance will be protected, NRCS may contribute up to 75 percent of the fair market value of the agricultural land easement.

To enroll land through agricultural land easements, NRCS enters into cooperative agreements with eligible partners. NRCS in New Jersey has partnered with the following eligible entities to preserve over 200 agricultural lands in New Jersey through the Farm and Ranchland Protection Program (FRPP) and the Agricultural Conservation Easement Program (ACEP): 

• State Agricultural Development Committee (SADC)  
• New Jersey Conservation Foundation (NJCF) 
• Hunterdon Land Trust (HLT) 
• D & R Greenway Land Trust  

Grasslands of Special Significance

Grasslands of Special Significance are grasslands that provide essential habitat for threatened or endangered species or at-risk species such as the American Kestrel, bobolink, and northern bobwhite quail. Along with agricultural land, NJ grasslands face the daily threat of development. New Jersey is an important stop along the Atlantic Flyway and grasslands resources provide essential habitat along the migratory pathway to rest and refuel. Species that depend on this essential habitat along the corridor have experienced significant declines.

Grasslands of special significance must:

• Contain little or no noxious or invasive species, as designated or defined by State or Federal law
• Be subject or the threat of conversion to nongrassland uses or fragmentation
• Contain rangeland, pastureland, shrubland, or wet meadows on which the vegetation is dominated by native grasses, grass-like plants, shrubs, or forbs, or is improved, naturalized pastureland, rangeland, and wet meadows.
• Provides, or could provide, habitat for threatened or endangered species or at-risk species, protects sensitive or declining native prairie or grassland types, or provides protection of highly sensitive natural resources.

Spring Grant - Large Grants Cycle

JWF-NJ accepts Letters of Intent (LOIs) from 501 (C)(3) organizations to support New Jersey-based projects consistent with our mission. The Trustees select those LOIs which are subsequently invited to submit a full proposal.

Mission

The Jewish Women’s Foundation of New Jersey (JWF-NJ) is a collaborative philanthropy inspired by Jewish values. Members are dedicated to empowering women and girls in New Jersey through education, advocacy, and strategic grant making.

Jewish Women's Foundation of New Jersey is an advisory council fund of the Jewish Community Foundation of Greater MetroWest NJ.

Spring Grant Cycle

For large grants, maximum request: $25,000

JWF-NJ accepts Letters of Intent (LOIs) from 501 (C)(3) organizations to support New Jersey-based projects consistent with our mission. The Trustees select those LOIs which are subsequently invited to submit a full proposal.

The Large Grant Period runs from July 1 of a given year through June 30 of the following year. Funding is on a one-year basis; organizations may reapply annually, but funding is not guaranteed. 

Mission

The mission of the Jewish Women’s Foundation of New Jersey (JWF) is to transform the lives of individual women and girls through collective grantmaking while improving the quality of life for the entire community.

Spring Core Grant Cycle

JWF accepts Letters of Intent (LOIs) to support programs and services based in New Jersey and consistent with the JWF mission. The JWF Grants Committee selects those LOIs which are subsequently invited to submit a full proposal. Please note, JWFNJ primarily focuses its support in the following counties: Essex, Morris, Passaic, Somerset, Sussex, Union and Warren. Occasionally, we will consider requests outside these geographic areas.

CHPRD Mission and Goals

The mission of the New Jersey Center for Hispanic Policy, Research, and Development is to improve the quality of life and empower the state's Hispanic community using CHPRD’s new model of community development.

Its goals are:

• Increase public and private resources invested wisely in the growth, development, and long term stability of high-quality Hispanic Community-Based Organizations.
• Develop public/private partnerships that enrich and promote the office’s programs and initiatives in support of Hispanics across the state.
• Provide the necessary tools and assistance in creating training and employment opportunities for Hispanics.
• Facilitate the professional and leadership development of Hispanics.

Funding Categories

• Hispanic Entrepreneurship
• Citizenship and Integration
• Workforce Development
• Youth Workforce Investment In-School and Out-of-School Program
• Community Service
• Health and Wellness

Applicants may seek funding from up to three (3) programs.

New agencies applying for CHPRD funding are limited to one (1) funding program, and are defined as organizations that have neither applied for nor received funding from the CHPRD within the past 5 years.

Health and Wellness Programs

This category is formulated to aid families in crisis, enhancing social and psychological functioning to maximize family well-being.

• Mental Health Services
• Family Violence Prevention and Services Program Grant

Goals

• Strengthen and address the health and resilience of individuals or families grappling with domestic violence, trauma, and mental health challenges.
• Stabilize crises, impart new problem-solving skills to families, and disrupt the cycle of family dysfunction.
• Provide tangible support for parents, including basic needs assistance and access to services such as physical and mental health care, substance abuse treatment, and domestic violence services.
• Teach parental resilience, encompassing stress coping and problem-solving strategies.
• Connect families with community outreach services to facilitate access to additional resources.

About The New Jersey State Council on the Arts

The New Jersey State Council on the Arts (Arts Council), created in 1966, is a division of the New Jersey Department of State and a partner agency of the National Endowment for the Arts. The Arts Council was established to support, encourage, and foster public interest in the arts; enlarge public and private resources devoted to the arts; promote freedom of expression in the arts; and facilitate the inclusion of art in every public building in New Jersey.

Creative Aging Initiative Grant

The Creative Aging Initiative Grant (CAI) provides $10,000 to eligible arts organizations, libraries, veterans homes, senior and community centers, colleges/universities, and units of government to cover costs for arts learning experiences with New Jersey older adults aged 55 and over. Successful applicants will receive $10,000 of funding for each year of the two-year grant cycle, pending available resources.

A CAI project is defined as an arts-based learning experience that directly engages older adults for multiple sessions. Projects may be sequential and build to a project culmination (residencies) or include a series of individual workshops that focus on skill-building and development in the performing, visual, media, or literary arts.

Jewish Community Foundation, Inc.

The Jewish Community Foundation, Inc. offers grants to non-profit organizations serving the Southern New Jersey community, including Jewish Federation of Southern New Jersey agencies, synagogues, Jewish day schools, and secular non-profits. These grants are awarded twice annually, during our Spring and Fall JCF Grants cycles.

The JCF provides funding of up to $5,000 (an increase from our previous maximum of $3,600) for each grant application that is approved by our Grants Committee and Board of Trustees, and applicants can apply for funding for more than one program per cycle. Each program is eligible to receive funding over the course of up to three cycles (usually once per year for three years), with a new application required for each cycle

Funding is provided primarily for new and innovative programming and services benefiting residents of Burlington, Camden, and/or Gloucester counties in South Jersey. Grants are not intended to supplement or duplicate existing funding or ongoing operating budgets of an organization or programs and services presently in existence.

What Are the JCF’s Goals in Providing Grants?

• Benefits to the Community: First and foremost, JCF Grants are meant to provide benefit to community members, not strictly the organizations that are awarded the funds.
• Launching New Community Initiatives: We operate in a vibrant Jewish and secular community, and the JCF hopes to ensure this continues into the future. We are thrilled to see programs that we fund grow into larger, ongoing programs for many years. While we don’t expect this to happen to each and every initiative that we fund, we do ask that grantees give it their all when producing a program, and, if it works, it will gain momentum, and, if not, it was worth a try.
• Marketing Exposure: The JCF also provides Grants to gain marketing exposure in the community. Our hope is that, when awarding a grant to your organization, the constituents who take part in the program, your existing Board members, and/or your donors, will want to consider endowing the program (or another initiative) to last for future years. The JCF works with donors to establish endowment funds which we manage, and we would be happy to work with you and your donors to discuss this important opportunity to benefit your organization.

What Does the JCF Fund?

The JCF welcomes applications from any organization that is interested in applying. That said, our typical Grant awards fall under the following guidelines:

• New & Innovative Programs: This type of proposal is the JCF’s top priority. Your organization may apply if you are looking to try out a new program and need seed funding to get off the ground. It’s like having a safety net for your big leap into a new endeavor.
• Expansion of Existing Programs: Secondly, if your organization has an existing program that is built into your budget, but intends to expand it in new directions, we welcome your application.
• Emerging Critical Needs: Lastly, if your organization is seeing critical issues arising in the community that need to be addressed, you may apply.

The above areas of funding are intentionally broad. We want to allow organizations to be creative but also have some framework to start with.

Connie Dwyer has always been passionate about ensuring that every woman, regardless of her financial situation, has access to quality breast health care. Her vision led to the creation of the Connie Dwyer Breast Cancer Foundation (CDBCF), which has become a beacon of hope for women across New Jersey.

Over the past two decades, CDBCF has made a significant impact in the fight against breast cancer. Through its unwavering commitment, CDBCF has provided thousands of uninsured or underinsured women with access to essential breast health services, including screenings, treatment, follow-up care, and ongoing support.

CDBCF has opened three centers in New Jersey including St. Michael’s Medical Center, Trinitas Regional Medical Center, and the Mobile Mammography unit at University Hospital. These facilities ensure that women have access to the care they need. Additionally, the community grants program has further extended its reach, funding vital initiatives that support breast health education, prevention, and care throughout the state.

Connie’s dedication and CDBCF’s efforts continue to save lives, offering a lifeline to women who might otherwise go without the care they deserve.

Connie Dwyer Breast Cancer Foundation Grant

Through the Connie Dwyer Breast Cancer Foundation sponsored facilities and its grants program, the Foundation serves underprivileged and vulnerable women by ensuring the availability of top-quality breast-health services that include screening, diagnosis, treatment, and follow-up care. In addition, CDBCF provides financial support for programs that provide resources, education, advocacy, and empowerment for the women we serve.

• The CDBCF's first round of grant funding budget is $50,000.
• The Foundation supports community initiatives that further our mission to focus on breast health and well-being of underserved women in selected counties in New Jersey.

Stone Foundation believes in providing flexible, patient, and trust-based philanthropic support. Our grantmaking is primarily focused on supporting work that serves the people of Monmouth County, New Jersey and Wabanakiq, Maine. We consider both general operating and project-specific grants, including both annual and multi-year commitments. 

Stone Foundation’s grantmaking incorporates two approaches: 

• An open application process that welcomes proposals from 501c3 nonprofit organizations, and community groups with a 501c3 fiscal sponsor. 
• Foundation-initiated investments that convene, build networks, amplify impact, and innovate solutions with and among community changemakers, connectors, and influencers.  

Unrestricted general operating grants range in size from $5,000 to $25,000. Organizations applying for the first time are typically considered for grants between $5,000 and $10,000.

Purpose for Which Funds will be Used:

The purpose of the NJYC program is to implement a statewide coordinated service system designed to help disconnected out-of-school youth in New Jersey, ages 16-25, without a high school diploma, reengage in educational, training and employment opportunities for a sustainable long-term career development. NJYC will provide full-time, cohort-based education and service learning, individual counseling, and transition services designed to help Corpsmembers resolve barriers, obtain a High School Diploma (by way of equivalency exam) or other measurable skill gain, and transition to a qualified post-corps placement along an identified career pathway.

The grant period for phase one will be an 18-month duration and is estimated to begin on July 1, 2025. All funds must be fully expended by December 31, 2026. Each successive phase of the grant cycle is anticipated to begin on July 1st and will be contingent upon an approved continuation application for continued funding.

Our Mission

We empower nonprofits to think bigger, solve more problems, and make life better in the neighborhoods served by OceanFirst Bank.

Funding Priorities

Advancing Economic Stability and Mobility

The Foundation supports organizations that meet the needs of families and individuals with workforce readiness programs (job training, skills building, apprentice programs, career counseling), literacy and ESL education, financial literacy programs, employment initiatives, and small business technical assistance and access to capital.

Supporting Housing Solutions

OceanFirst Foundation supports organizations that help to create and sustain safe and affordable housing, meet the housing needs of special populations, and supports emergency shelters. The Foundation also supports community-led neighborhood revitalization, housing counseling, homebuyer education, and services that prevent homelessness and increase self-sufficiency.

Empowering the Next Generation

We support organizations that help foster conditions for youth of all ages to thrive and reach their full potential including mentoring, summer camp scholarships, before and after school programs, counseling, youth leadership and career development, program/activity scholarships to support inclusion, healthy behaviors, and leadership development, school based financial literacy education, civic engagement, arts and cultural programs, educator recognition, and much more.

Improving Health and Wellness

The Foundation addresses the health and well-being of individuals and local communities by supporting organizations that care for our neighbors. The Foundation is especially interested in supporting nonprofits that focus on access to care, especially for vulnerable populations and the underserved, mental health services, food security, the healing power of the arts, and the social determinants of health and well-being.

Investing in Higher Education

The Foundation provides scholarship support to nine partner Community Colleges and Universities in New Jersey to help students pursue their dream of higher education.

Funding

Two year grant cycle for General Operating Support. Awards set at $15,000 ($7,500/2 years).

Our Mission

The Provident Bank Foundation invests in marginalized communities within Provident Bank's branch network by collaborating with nonprofit organizations that align with the values we care about. Together, we empower individuals on their paths to economic self-sufficiency by addressing the multifaceted issues that perpetuate the cycle of poverty.

Empowerment Grant

The Empowerment Grant program provides two years of flexible funding support for programs, projects, or initiatives that are based within our geographic footprint and that align with at least one of PBF’s newly revised funding priorities and the corresponding areas of interest. Funding requests must demonstrate community enhancement and meaningful impact over the grant term.

Funding Priorities and Areas of Interest

Our vision is to build strong and healthy communities where everyone can live a fulfilling and prosperous life. Organizations applying for an Empowerment Grant must measure their program’s impact in a manner that aligns with at least one of our newly revised funding priorities and one of the specific areas of interest.

• Education
  • Quality education and vocational training to build the skills needed to participate fully in the economy.
  • Areas of Interest:
    • Community colleges
    • Vocational programs
    • Special education services
• Human Services
  • Social safety nets to support vulnerable populations in times of greatest need.
  • Areas of Interest
    • Housing assistance
    • Food security
    • Healthcare access for un-/underinsured individuals
    • Youth mental health services
• Workforce Development
  • Career opportunities and skills development to support pathways to economic self-sufficiency.
  • Areas of Interest:
    • Job training
    • Employment supports
    • Reentry programs

Funding

Empowerment Grants will be awarded in the range of $5,000-$10,000 per year for two years for organizations with operating budgets between $50,000-$1 million per year, and in the range of $10,000-$25,000 per year for two years for organizations with operating budgets between $1 million-$15 million per year.

About Us

The Jewish Community Foundation of Greater MetroWest NJ (JCF) engages, educates, and inspires donors to ensure that the work they believe in will continue and our community will remain strong and vibrant for generations to come.

Grant making is at the heart of what we do. Since 1949, the Jewish Community Foundation and our donors have made grants to a wide range of programs and institutions, both Jewish and in the broader community, locally and around the world.

We fund academic scholarships and provide other forms of financial aid to individuals and families in need. We respond to emergencies that affect the Jewish community here in New Jersey, nationally, and around the world. Our grants also support new initiatives, innovative programs, and special community projects.

LOCAL Greater MetroWest NJ GRANTS

JCF-GMW is now accepting applications for one-year grants for programs to enhance and transform our local community. 

Our Vision

Powering a future where people use less energy, and it’s cleaner, safer and delivered more reliably than ever.

Our Mission

• Be a positive force in a changing world by providing an infrastructure to access safe, affordable, reliable and cleaner energy;
• Work toward a carbon-free economy;
• Empower the lives of our customers, our communities, our workforce and other stakeholders;
• Embrace diversity and inclusion,  and promote equitable and ethical behavior.

Neighborhood Partners Program

The PSEG Foundation is committed to creating more inclusive, sustainable, and equitable communities for all. As part of the commitment to social value, the PSEG Foundation’s strategic pillars are environmental sustainability, social justice, equity, and economic empowerment. Through the NPP, the PSEG Foundation aims to partner with organizations that are transformative, leading change on issues impacting our communities and working towards collaborative solutions.

It is highly encouraged that prospective applicants review the Program Rules section to determine eligibility before applying.

Foundation Pillars

Funding consideration will be provided for programs in alignment with one or more of the PSEG Foundation pillars:

• Environmental Sustainability (ES)
  • promote environmental sustainability and stewardship; programs that encourage environmental education; facilitate clean energy innovation; preserve ecosystems and encourage conservation and foster environmental justice
• Social Justice (SJ) 
  • empower diverse and inclusive communities, focus on addressing inequities and elevate prosperity in communities through strategic initiatives aimed at closing the wealth inequality gap
• Equity & Economic Empowerment (EEE)
  • consideration will be given to programs that provide comprehensive support services that address pressing economic needs: affordability, food security and workforce development initiatives; additional areas that are part of the EEE pillar and may receive consideration include: ;increase awareness of STEM education and workforce readiness; expand educational opportunities; support neighborhood revitalization through economic development and build healthy, safe and resilient communities.

New Jersey Department of Health

The scope of work for the public health system is ever-expanding, and the Department is on the frontlines in leading the response to public health challenges. The Department has three primary branches – Public Health Services, Health Systems, and Integrated Health. All work collaboratively toward improving health by strengthening New Jersey’s health system.

Our Mission: Protect the public’s health, promote healthy communities, and continue to improve the quality of health care in New Jersey

Advanced Life Support in Obstetrics Training NOFA

The funds will be used to plan and execute the delivery of the Advanced Life Support in Obstetrics (ALSO) trainings in New Jersey. Grant recipient will develop a collaborative an informed process to offer ALSO trainings to eligible participants while working with appropriate partners throughout the grant cycle. Training evaluation is required to ensure implementation fidelity and training effectiveness. Grant recipient will report out training uptake and completion in specific regions within the state. ALSO training implementation and availability will improve knowledge of procedures and processes in obstetric emergencies for particpating trainees to reduce contributing factors for maternal mortality and morbidity. 

Award Period: From 9/30/25 Through 9/29/26

New Jersey Nonprofit Security Grant Program (NJ NSGP)

The New Jersey Nonprofit Security Grant Program (NJ NSGP) provides funding to eligible nonprofit organizations across New Jersey, as described under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, at the greatest risk of terrorist attacks.

ABOUT ROOTED IN JUSTICE

“Rooted in Justice” is a funding program designed to help amplify youth voices and actions in the environmental and food justice movements.  Rooted in Justice supports community-based organizations and groups that manage established, youth-led, urban greening programs within a justice framework as a core part of their work, with two-year grants of $25,000/year.  

Rooted in Justice recognizes the importance and undeniable right of every young person to have the ability to develop their own relationship with the environment, be it through growing food, spending time with nature, creating community green spaces, or becoming environmental stewards. Rooted in Justice also honors the power and possibilities that arise when young people collectively work to be change-makers in their communities.

Rooted in Justice supports organizations, groups, collectives, and programs that work with young people between the ages of 12 to 20 in youth-led programming for communities or cultures which have historically or currently experience:

• A lack of access to land or nature;
• Agricultural oppression and/or neglect;
• Food apartheid; and/or
• Other forms of injustice based on race, ethnicity, religion, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics and disability.

Rooted in Justice awards a small number of grants each year with applications due in the fall and decisions made the following spring. Final grant decisions are recommended to the Cedar Tree board via a participatory grantmaking process with outside reviewers who have experience in youth-led urban greening, as well as food or climate justice programming. So far the program has awarded multi-year grants to 21 organizations and one-time grants to 10 additional organizations since 2021. 

Definitions

Rooted in Justice grants support organizations or programs that include all four of the elements described below: social justice, youth-led, urban greening, and cohort-based youth work. We articulate our understanding of those terms below in an effort to provide a guide for prospective organizations to use in determining whether their program is a good fit. However as we continue our work towards questioning and dismantling some of our preconceived notions, we recognize that these are not finite definitions and encourage prospective applicants who still feel their work may be a good fit to describe in their proposals why this is the case.  

Social Justice-Based Programs

Programs dedicated to creating equitable outcomes for communities directly affected by different aspects of injustice by:

• Sharing and redistributing power and resources;
• Amplifying voices and leadership;
• Tackling root problems through ongoing engagement and collaboration to find solutions, organize against oppression of all kinds and create mechanisms for change; and
• Developing a critical analysis with youth and community members.

Youth-Led

The development of youth leadership skills is a core part of programs funded by Rooted in Justice. Young people have the opportunity to play a role in the planning and decision-making for their program and may help shape the internal workings of the organization. Examples of youth-led programs include programs where participants: 

• Managing a portion of their programming budget;
• Co-facilitating program activities, meetings and gatherings;
• Shape their own programming and/or organizational strategic planning;
• Have regular and end-of-program opportunities to provide program feedback and evaluation; and
• Have opportunities for personal and/or professional growth within the program and organization.

Urban Greening

For the purpose of this grant we define “urban greening” as any activity that creates a mutually beneficial relationship between city dwellers and their environments. Programs that are a strong fit for Rooted in Justice will have many opportunities for youth to be outdoors.  Project settings can include, but are not limited to: 

• Urban and aquaponic farms
• Greenhouses and rooftop gardens
• Community gardens, green spaces, and rain gardens
• Composting sites
• Land conservation efforts
• Urban forests
• River or other water restoration  

Cohort-Based Youth Works

Rooted in Justice looks to fund organizations that build community with cohorts of youth through intentional, recurring programming. This grant is intended to support programs that offer youth significant learning and leadership opportunities as a group and as individuals. Priority will be given to organizations that have program infrastructure that supports a cohort of youth over time.  Drop-in programming, one-time conferences, or individual internships are not a good fit for Rooted in Justice.  

Youth Budgeting

As part of grant proposal, all Rooted in Justice grantees must share a plan to allocate a portion of the grant funds for youth participants to manage. What do we mean by this? We ask applicants to specifically set aside some amount of grant funds for youth to allocate to priorities of their choosing.  For example, youth participants can use their allocated funding to:

• Fund an entrepreneurial endeavor;
• Design the brand or swag for their group;
• Hire a speaker or outside expert to teach a new skill;
• Purchase supplies for a community-based art project;
• Host a celebration for their families, friends and neighbors;
• Pay for transportation to programming, special events, or conferences; and/or
• Any other youth-led activity the group may find beneficial.

Use of Funds

Rooted in Justice funding must be used for project support of existing youth led, urban greening, social justice work and associated general operating expenses. Operating expenses can include anything from program costs like staff salaries and youth stipends to organizational sustainability needs like major equipment purchases and leadership/staff training. If your organization’s entire mission is youth led, urban greening, social justice work, the Rooted in Justice grant can be general support. 

Funding

Two Year Grant

• Rooted in Justice Grant awards are two-year grants of $25,000 per year.
• After the initial two year grant, grantees may be eligible for a third year of funding at the same or lower level through a simple renewal process.
• In the 2025-2026 grant cycle, the Cedar Tree Foundation expects to support 4 organizations with multi-year grant awards.

Funding for Professional Development

• Each Rooted in Justice grantee organization also has access to an additional $6,000 to support professional development opportunities identified by each organization.  Half of these funds must be used to directly support the professional development of youth. 
• Rooted in Justice grantees can request reimbursement from this professional development fund to attend conferences, hire consultants, purchase equipment or software that increases organizational capacity, or participate in any activities that strengthen youth programming or justice practice of program providers in support of their youth development programming. The funds set aside for youth professional development can be used for youth exchanges or youth participation in conferences and other professional development opportunities directly for youth.  

Community Professional Development Calls

• Cedar Tree works with grantee partners to assess their professional development interests and facilitates on-line gatherings of staff or youth for skill shares, trainings, and networking opportunities.
• These network calls will likely happen 2-3 times per year. 

Mission

The Jewish Women’s Foundation of New Jersey (JWF-NJ) is a collaborative philanthropy inspired by Jewish values. Members are dedicated to empowering women and girls in New Jersey through education, advocacy, and strategic grant making.

Jewish Women's Foundation of New Jersey is an advisory council fund of the Jewish Community Foundation of Greater MetroWest NJ.

Fall Grant Cycle - Impact Grants

Maximum request: $5,000

JWF-NJ accepts proposals from 501 (C)(3) organizations to support projects consistent with our mission.

JWF-NJ wants to get to know your organization and see how you are empowering and/or supporting women and girls in your New Jersey-based community. Please show us how a small grant of up to $5,000 can offer a big return. Project funds must be used by June 30, the end of JWF-NJ's fiscal year.

Fall - Impact Grants Cycle

JWF-NJ wants to get to know your organization and see how you are empowering and/or supporting women and girls in your New Jersey-based community. With the short application available through FOUNDANT, please show us how a small grant of up to $5,000 can offer a big return. Project funds must be used by June 30th, the end of JWF-NJ's fiscal year.

 Agricultural Management Assistance (AMA)

The Agricultural Management Assistance (AMA) helps agricultural producers manage financial risk through diversification, marketing or natural resource conservation practices.

NRCS administers the conservation provisions while Agricultural Marketing Service and Risk Management Agency implement the production diversification and marketing provisions.

How It Works

Producers may construct or improve water management structures or irrigation structures; plant trees for windbreaks or to improve water quality; and mitigate risk through production diversification or resource conservation practices, including soil erosion control, integrated pest management, or transition to organic farming.

Program At A Glance

• AMA provides financial assistance up to 75 percent of the cost of installing conservation practices.
• Total AMA payments shall not exceed $50,000 per participant for any fiscal year.
• Participants are not subject to Highly Erodible Land and Wetland Conservation provisions of the Food Security Act of 1985.
• Participants are subject to Adjusted Gross Income provisions of the Food Security Act of 1985.
• AMA offers an additional higher cost-share for historically underserved producers.

New Jersey State Council on the Arts

The New Jersey State Council on the Arts (Arts Council) is a division of the New Jersey Department of State, created in 1966 by Public Law Chapter 214 and consists of 17 Governor-appointed members and three ex-officio members representing the New Jersey Secretary of State, the Senate, and the Assembly.

Our Mission

In 1966, the Legislature passed and the governor signed a bill creating the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, and directing us to do all that is necessary and appropriate to: support, encourage, and foster public interest in the arts; enlarge public and private resources devoted to the arts; promote freedom of expression in the arts; and facilitate the inclusion of art in every public building in New Jersey.

General Operating Support

General Operating Support (GOS) grants provide annual support for the overall operations of organizations with missions exclusively devoted to the arts and which meet the Council’s eligibility criteria.

GOS grants are typically awarded with a three-year commitment, subject to contract stipulations, and available funds which are contingent upon, in part, the passage of the state budget for the grant cycle.