CFNJ: The Passaic County Children’s Support Grant

The Passaic County Children’s Support Grant, offered by the Community Foundation of New Jersey, aims to support nonprofit organizations dedicated to helping abused or homeless children in Passaic County. With grants ranging from $5,000 to $25,000, this initiative focuses on providing emergency shelter, trauma-informed care, educational support, and basic needs assistance. The foundation emphasizes equity-driven, community-based solutions to address the needs of historically underserved populations.

Grantmaking Philosophy
The Community Foundation of New Jersey considers regularly how we as an organization and civic community leader can effect lasting change that leads to greater equity. To that end, our discretionary grantmaking is informed by many of the below criteria and grounded in the associated values.
Criteria
We seek to support initiatives that:

• Pilot a good idea and have a realistic path toward broader uptake
• Have an achievable public policy objective
• Promote a public systems fix that CFNJ and partners have the tools/standing to influence
• Reach a New Jersey community or group of people who are not being served or have historically been underserved.
• Leverage other private or public resources
• Values
• The work we support is:
• Community-driven, with input that comes from the community and take into account the expressed needs and plans of the community.
• Equity-informed, directly addressing racial, economic and/or social inequity in New Jersey.

Diversely-led, drawing from a greater diversity of organizations that people of color, different ages and perspectives lead and/or serve, and that may or may not have proven track records but show promise in future work
Broad-based, serving more than one community.
The Passaic County Children’s Support Grant is dedicated to providing financial assistance to nonprofit organizations within Passaic County that are committed to serving abused or homeless children. Grant focus areas include emergency shelter and housing services, trauma-informed care and counseling, management and advocacy, educational support and enrichment, and basic needs assistance, including food, clothing, hygiene supplies, and transportation assistance to homeless or at-risk children and their families.
Funding
One to five grant awards will range between $5,000 – $25,000.

Eligibility

The Community Foundation of New Jersey is pleased to share grant opportunities for area non-profit organizations.This grant is dedicated to providing financial assistance to nonprofit organizations within Passaic County that are committed to serving abused or homeless children.