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Critical Needs Grants Awarded to Trenton-Area Nonprofits

Together, in partnership with The Princeton Area Community Foundation and the Bonner Foundation, $155,000 in Critical Needs Grants were awarded to Trenton-area nonprofits facing funding cuts and increased demand for services.

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A Year of Clarity, Momentum, and Partnership 

This has been a year of listening, grounding, learning, and charting a clear path forward. And it has also been a year of real progress and movement toward the kind of New Jersey where every family has the chance to build stability, build opportunity, and build wealth across generations. 

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New Investments Announced to Support Economic Opportunity in Paterson

The Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation announced $1.6M in multi-year investments advancing economic stability, housing, and opportunity in the City of Paterson.

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  • Spotlight on the Upcoming Elections

    The 2013 Gubernatorial Race It’s quite a challenge for the media to cover this year’s gubernatorial race fairly. In Chris Christie, we have a larger-than-life…

  • Taking Stock of Anniversaries

    For all the talk of journalism’s noble past and uncertain future, the truth is that journalism’s day-to-day is a lot like slinging hash. Everyday journalism…

  • A Creative Recovery

    This month we mark the first anniversary of Hurricane Sandy crashing upon New Jersey and our neighboring states.  While it was painfully obvious that Sandy…

  • Calling All Citizen Mappers!

    The best laid plans start with a good map. From a simple sketch on the back of an envelope to digital layers of complex geospatial…

  • Repainting Journalism

    Last week, I attended a panel discussion about the Nieman Journalism Lab’s ambitious oral history, “Riptide,” at the Paley Center for Media in New York.…

  • Are We There Yet?

    Defining and Tracking Sustainability Goals for New Jersey By 2050, demographers predict as many as 10 billion human beings will walk the earth, 3 billion…

  • Strong Boards = Strong Nonprofits

    I can’t think of a single nonprofit organizational challenge that wouldn’t be improved by having a strong board of trustees who are fully aware of…