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EDUCATION

Abbott Leadership Institute/Rutgers
$40,000
www.abbottleadership.org
To support a Saturday parent leadership training program that enables Newark parents to become advocates and full partners in the education of their children.

AFS-USA
$25,000
www.afs.org/usa
To support a foreign exchange program experience for 12 Newark youth.

Arts Horizons
$15,000
www.artshorizons.org
To underwrite the participation of 15 Newark public school teachers at the summer 2009 Artist Teacher Institute, an intensive 10-day arts education immersion program.

ArtsPower, Inc.
$10,000
www.artspower.org
To pilot a teacher training initiative targeting, 12 teachers and 150 students at Wilson Avenue Elementary School in Newark entitled Theatre Literacy Connection.

Bank Street College of Education
$40,000
www.bankstreet.edu
To support the Newark Educators’ Collaborative that will serve as a professional learning community for Newark teachers from public, parochial, independent and charter schools.

Bethany Cares
$35,000
To support the Bethany Freedom School, an academically rigorous summer day camp and afterschool program in Newark.

Camp Speers Eljabar YMCA
$15,000
www.campspeersymca.org
To support outdoor experiential and leadership activities for students at the North Star Academy charter school.

Center for Talented Youth/Johns Hopkins University
$52,000
www.cty.jhu.edu
To support gifted and talented middle and high school youth in Newark to participate in the 2009 Center for Talented Youth program, a three-week academically rigorous residential experience that takes place on college campuses throughout the country.

Children's Literacy Initiative
$340,000
www.CLIontheweb.org
To support the Newark Literacy Project, which provides intensive professional development program to pre-kindergarten through third grade teachers in the Newark Public Schools.

Christ the King Preparatory School
$50,000
www.ctkprep.org
To support this school which is one of 19 high schools that comprise the national Cristo Rey Network.

Committee of Advocates for Newark’s Children/Rutgers
$20,000
www.abbottleadership.org
To support activities associated with the Committee of Advocates for Newark's Children, a group of leaders from the philanthropic, corporate, non-profit, and higher education communities who come together to promote the educational needs of children in Newark.

Communities in Schools of Newark
$100,000
www.cisnet.org
To support full-time Project Directors at 13th and 15th Avenue Elementary Schools in Newark who connects the needs of children and families with community resources.

Discovery Charter School/Community Foundation of New Jersey
$20,000
www.discoverylearningcenter.org
To purchase educational materials and equipment that will help Discovery Charter School educators deliver high quality teaching to its students.

DonorsChoose, Inc.
$15,000
www.donorschoose.org
To engage citizens in an online marketplace where citizen philanthropists fund individual teacher's specific classroom projects in Newark.

Greater Newark Charter School
$35,000
www.greaternewarkcharterschool.org
To support the hiring of a high school placement officer and the purchase of laptop computers.

I Have a Dream Foundation-Newark
$20,000
www.ihad.org
To support the IHAD-Newark program at Burnet Street Elementary School, which works with a cohort of 50 low-income children providing mentoring, enrichment, and tuition assistance for higher education.

Kids In Business
$22,500
www.discoverylearningcenter.org
To support in-school entrepreneurial learning activities for youth in 10 Newark schools.

Link Community School
$75,000
www.linkschool.org
To support this academically rigorous independent middle school founded in 1969.

Maria L Varisco-Rogers Charter School
$15,000
www.mvrogerscharter.org
To fund professional development for the teaching staff.

Marion P. Thomas Charter School
$50,000
www.MPTCS.org
To help the School lease modular units that will serve as temporary classrooms while it works to secure a permanent larger facility.

New Jersey Historical Society
$105,000 & $20,000
www.jerseyhistory.org
To support education programs for over 7,500 Newark students and teachers. A second grant of $20,000 supports efforts to strengthen the organization's fundraising capacity.

New Jersey Performing Arts Center
$400,000
www.njpac.org
To support a wide range of onsite and school-based arts education and training activities benefitting Newark children and teens, including more than 50 school-based artist residencies.

New Jersey SEEDS
$15,000
www.njseeds.org
To enable academically talented, yet financially disadvantaged, eighth grade students in Newark the opportunity to attend and succeed at prestigious private secondary schools.

New Jersey Symphony Orchestra
$82,000
www.njsymphony.org
To support the Newark Early Strings Program, which provided Suzuki violin instruction to over 500 elementary school children in Newark.

Newark Arts Council
$36,000
www.newarkarts.org
To fund a part-time Arts-in-Education director and an associate to strengthen arts education programs in Newark.

Newark Boys Chorus School
$40,000
www.newark-boys-chorus-school.net
To support this School, which provides 4th through 8th grade boys with a challenging education that includes instruction in musical theory, sight reading, voice, and choral training.

Newark Museum Association
$180,000 & $1,000,000
www.NewarkMuseum.org
To support education programming, which includes outreach into Newark schools and exhibition-based activities that bring students, teachers, and families into the Museum. A second multi-year grant of $1,000,000 supports Phase One of the Newark Museum's Signature Campaign to enhance and expand the Museum.

Newark Performing Arts Corporation
$40,000
www.newarksymphonyhall.org
To support the 2009 summer camp and new children's programming at Newark Symphony Hall.

Newark Public Schools
$85,000
www.nps.k12nj.us
To support a partnership with Dr. Heidi Hayes Jacobs to work with middle grade teachers at 17 Newark Public Schools to promote curriculum mapping, team teaching, and integrated, thematic units of learning.

Newark School of the Arts
$40,000
www.Newarkschoolofthearts.org
To provide scholarships to Newark youth participating in high quality, sequential instruction in music, drama, dance and fine arts.

Pathways to College/Ophelia J. Berry Fund
$23,000
www.ojberry.org
To support the expansion of the number of eligible college students from Newark through the provision of academic enrichment and college prep activities.

Princeton Center for Leadership Training
$18,000
www.princetonleadership.org
To provide scholarships to Newark youth to participate in the 2009 Write on Sports summer day camp program, designed to improve writing skills by tapping into students’ interest in sports.

Public Health Research Institute /UMDNJ
$15,000
www.phri.org
To support the Public Health Research Institute’s 2009 Summer High School Research Internship Program in Newark.

Queen of Angels School
$22,500
To support the School's technology instructor.

Rainforest Alliance
$18,000
www.rainforest-alliance.org
To train 120 Newark educators to develop and implement an interdisciplinary curriculum that allows children in grades K-8 to use the hands-on rainforest themed activities to explore their local environment while addressing environmental stewardship.

R U Ready for Work/Rutgers
$20,000
To support R U Ready for Work, a year-round work readiness and career awareness program at Newark’s West Side High School.

Saint Mary School
$25,000
www.smsnwk.com
To support the School’s technology instructor.

Saint Vincent Academy
$123,000 & $150,000
www.svanewark.org
To support this private high school for girls in Newark founded in 1869 by the Sisters of Charity of Saint Elizabeth. The second grant of $150,000 supported the school’s operating endowment campaign to ensure the long-term sustainability of the school.

Scholarship Fund for Inner-City Children
$30,000
www.sficnj.org
To provide scholarships to 30 Newark elementary and high school children to attend private and parochial schools.

School of the Garden State Ballet
$35,000
www.gardenstateballet.org
To provide scholarship support that enabled over 400 Newark children to enroll in rigorous ballet classes.

Seton Hall University
$40,000
www.shu.edu
To support a turn-around initiative at Newark’s Newton Street Elementary School that involves a unique partnership between the School, the Newark Teachers Union, and Seton Hall University's Center for Urban Leadership.

Sharron Miller's Academy for the Performing Arts
$35,000
www.smapa.org
To support arts residencies at the Quitman Street Community School in Newark.

SMART Initiative/UMDNJ
$17,000
www.nj.gov/highereducation
To support the summer 2009 SMART Initiative, a five-week hands-on science enrichment day camp program for 150 Newark high school students.

St. Benedict's Preparatory School
$100,000
www.sbp.org
To provide general operating support for this college preparatory school in Newark educating young men in grades 7 through 12.

St. Philip's Academy
$90,000
www.stphilipsacademy.org
To support this independent K-8 school established in Newark to provide inner-city students with a strong academic program.

Student Partner Alliance
$30,000
www.studentpartneralliance.org
To support this program that provides mentoring and tuition support at private and parochial high schools to financially disadvantaged minority youth in Newark,

Teach For America
$80,000
www.teachforamerica.org
To support a strong partnership with the Newark Public Schools, with special emphasis on placing corps teachers in the middle and high schools.

The Friends of TEAM Academy Charter School
$150,000
www.teamacademy.org
To provide capital funds necessary to expand this high performing charter school in Newark.

The Latino Institute
$18,000
www.latinoinstitute.us
To support the Latino Parents Intervention Program in Newark, which teaches parenting skills and early literacy techniques to Latino parents with young children.

Uncommon Schools for North Star Academy
$150,000
www.uncommonschools.org
www.uncommonschools.org
TO provide capital support necessary to expand this high performing charter school in Newark.

W.E.B. DuBois Scholars Institute
$40,000
www.webduboisscholars.org
To support the 2009 summer residential academic enrichment program on the Princeton University campus to academically-gifted middle and high school youth from Newark.

The following education grants were for amounts under $15,000:
American Conference on Diversity
$2,000 & $12,000
www.americanconferenceondiversity.org
Apollo Alliance/Tides Center
$5,000
www.apolloalliance.org
Center for Effective School Policies/Charter School Resource Center/Rutgers
$3,000
www.njcharterschools.org
Colonial Symphony
$10,000
www.colonialsymphony.org
Little Kids Rock, Inc.
$4,000
www.littlekidsrock.org
Newark Public Schools Foundation
$2,500
www.nps.k12.nj.us/npsf
Opera New Jersey
$12,000
www.opera-nj.org
Passaic River Institute/Montclair State University
$10,000
www.montclair.edu

ENVIRONMENT

Conservation Resources, Inc.
$45,000
www.conservationresourcesinc.org
To support CRI, whole goals are to increase the capacity, expertise, and financial resources available to private and public conservation efforts in New Jersey.

Eastern Environmental Law Center of New Jersey
$25,000
www.easternenvironmental.org
To support this nonprofit public interest environmental law firm specializing in serving the needs of the New Jersey environmental community.

Environmental Defense
$30,000
www.edf.org
To support work in New Jersey to strengthen protection of the Highlands region.

Hackensack Riverkeeper
$50,000
www.hackensackriverkeeper.org
To support efforts to improve the environmental health of the Hackensack River watershed, which includes the Lower Passaic River and the Newark Bay.

Hunterdon Land Trust Alliance
$50,000
www.HLTA.org
To support land preservation efforts, including the purchase of an environmentally sensitive paecel in Holland Township.

Morris Land Conservancy
$20,000
www.morrislandconservancy.org
To help this organization preserve land and protect water resources throughout northern New Jersey.

Natural Resources Defense Council
$15,000
www.nrdc.org
To support efforts to remediate dioxin contamination along the Passaic River and Newark Bay Superfund site.

Nature Conservancy
$50,000
www.nature.org
To support the protection and stewardship of open space in New Jersey.

New Jersey Audubon Society
$15,000
www.njaudubon.org
To support efforts to ensure adequate funding for urban parks and open spaces in New Jersey.

New Jersey Highlands Coalition
$50,000
www.njhighlandscoalition.org
To support this Coalition that serves as the watchdog agency to protect and preserve the Highlands and to ensure responsible implementation of the Highlands Act.

Passaic River Coalition
$15,000
www.passaicriver.org
To preserve and protect the water resources of the Passaic River Watershed.

Raritan Baykeeper
$90,000
www.nynjbaykeeper.org
To support efforts to preserve and restore the ecological integrity and productivity of the Hudson-Raritan Estuary, its tributaries and watersheds.

Trout Unlimited
$18,000
www.tu.org
To support the Home Rivers Initiative to restore the Musconetcong River in New Jersey's Highlands.

Trust for Public Land--New Jersey Field Office
$40,000
www.tpl.org
To support general operations for the New Jersey Field Office, which has permanently preserved over 23,000 acres of open space across the state, and has created seven new parks and playgrounds in the city of Newark.

The following environmental grant was for an amount under $15,000:
Musconetcong Watershed Association
$10,000
www.musconetcong.org
New Jersey Future
$10,000
www.njfuture.org

Ironbound Community Corporation
$130,000 & $35,000
www.ironboundcc.org
To support this multi-service organization in the East Ward that serves over 800 Newark residents each day. The second grant of $35,000 supports a new initiative to preserve existing low and moderate income housing in Newark.

Jersey Cares
$15,000
www.jerseycares.org
To help local organizations in Newark to identify community needs and train volunteers to address those needs.

La Casa de Don Pedro
$205,000
www.lacasanwk.org
To support this multi-service organization that seeks to improve the quality of life for residents in Newark's North Ward.

Leadership Newark
$50,000
www.LeadershipNewark.org
To support this program that recruits young professionals who live or work in Newark to participate in a two-year leadership training program.

Leviticus 25:23 Alternative Fund, Inc.
$20,000
www.leviticusfund.org
To provide loans to nonprofits in Newark that focus on building necessary facilities in low-income neighborhoods.

Lincoln Park/Coast Cultural District
$25,000
www.LPCCD.org
To support the Green Collar Apprenticeship Program, which provides construction job training in “green” technologies for Newark residents.

Local Initiatives Support Corporation
$115,000
www.lisc.org
To provide technical assistance and loans to community development corporations that are transforming distressed Newark neighborhoods.

Manhattan Institute for Policy Research
$25,000
www.manhattan-institute.org
To provide technical assistance to the city of Newark on prisoner reentry issues, including a "loaned executive" with experience in workforce and prisoner reentry issues.

New Community Corporation
$540,000
www.newcommunity.org
To support this multi-service organization that has been revitalizing Newark's Central Ward for almost 40 years with a wide array of community-based services and programs.

New Jersey Institute for Social Justice
$40,000
www.njisj.org
To provide general operating support, with a special focus on prisoner re-entry issues in Newark.

Newark NOW
$45,000
www.newarknow.org
To provide salary support for a full-time coordinator of the Newark/Essex County Foreclosure Task Force.

Newark Police Foundation/Community Foundation of New Jersey
$175,000
www.cfnj.org
To fund the purchase of "Sting Ray" equipment to apprehend suspects by tracking their cell phone locations.

Nonprofit Finance Fund
$33,000
www.nonprofitfinancefund.org
To strengthen the financial health of nonprofit organizations in Newark.

North Ward Center
$50,000
www.northwardcenter.org
To provide general operating support to this multi-service agency in the North Ward of Newark.

Partnership In Philanthropy
$30,000
www.pipnj.org
To provide fundraising expertise to organizations in the nonprofit sector in Newark in order to improve the quality of life for those in need.

Regional Plan Association
$80,000
www.rpa.org
To work with the city of Newark on its master plan initiative and specific redevelopment projects.

Salvation Army
$45,000
www.ironboundbgca.com
To support the city of Newark's efforts to create a youth leadership, employment and development program called the Newark Youth Connection.

Training, Inc./Essex County College
$70,000
www.traininginc.org
To support this workforce development center that provides job training, placement and ongoing support to 200 low-income Newark area residents each year.

Trust for Public Land
$250,000
www.tpl.org
To support the Parks for People - Newark initiative that addresses the critical need for outdoor recreational space in Newark's neighborhoods.

Unified Vailsburg Services Organization
$200,000 & $41,000
www.uvso.org
To support this neighborhood-based, multi-service agency that serves residents in the West Ward of Newark. The second grant of $41,000 funds a public/private partnership with the city of Newark to provide summer employment and related support services to a cohort of 106 teens.

Urban League of Essex County
$75,000
www.ulec.org
To support youth programming, community development, and job training programs in Newark.

YouthBuild Newark
$120,000
www.youthbuildnewark.com
To support this youth development program that serves out-of-school youth between the ages of 16 and 24, providing GED and life skills training and hands-on construction trade skills.

The following neighborhood development/urban activities grants were for amounts under $15,000:
Center for Non-Profit Corporations, Inc.
$7,500
www.njnonprofits.org
Community Foundation of New Jersey
$5,000
www.cfnj.org
Cornwall Center Greater Newark Health Systems Survey/ Rutgers
$1,000
www.cornwall.rutgers.edu
Episcopal Diocese of Newark
$2,500
www.dioceseofnewark.org
Leadership Newark
$10,000
www.LeadershipNewark.org
Pro Bono Partnership, Inc.
$7,500
www.probonopartnership.org
Rutgers Institute on Ethnicity, Culture and the Modern Experience
$11,000
ethnicity.rutgers.edu
Unified Vailsburg Services Organization
$3,000
www.uvso.org