EDUCATION

Abbott Leadership Institute/Rutgers
$40,000 and $25,000
Mr. Junius W. Williams
Director
(973)353-3531
The purpose of the Abbott Leadership Institute, housed at Rutgers' Cornwall Center for Metropolitan Studies, is to build the capacity of Newark public school parents to become advocates and full partners in the education of their children. Victoria's grant provided funding to continue the Saturday parent leadership training program, and to open 10 church-based afterschool homework centers in Newark.

Another grant of $25,000 supported ALI as the lead agency to staff the Committee of Advocates for Newark's Children, a group of leaders from the philanthropic, corporate, nonprofit, and higher education communities who come together to promote the educational needs of youth in Newark.

AFS-USA
$25,000
Mr. Alex J. Plinio
President
(212)299-9000
AFS-USA is the leading international exchange program sending and receiving students to and from 44 countries worldwide. The Foundation supported the AFS-USA Newark Global Enrichment Scholars Diversity Initiative to fund underserved and underrepresented Newark students' participation the AFS-USA foreign exchange programs.

Arts Horizons
$12,000
Mr. John R. Devol
Founding Director
(201)567-1766
Arts Horizons provides school-based artist-in-residence programs, interactive live performances, and professional development for classroom teachers. This grant provided scholarship support for 15 Newark teachers to attend the summer 2006 Artist Teacher Institute, an intensive 10-day arts education immersion program.

Bank Street College of Education
$200,000
Dr. Adrianne Kamsler
Project Director
(212)961-3409
Bank Street College of Education initiated Project New Beginnings in Newark in 1996. Bank Street was invited into the district to serve as a change agent to restructure early childhood education by transforming K-3 instruction in Newark's public elementary schools. This grant provided support for one-on-one classroom teacher coaching, and engaging small groups of educators in intensive facilitated study groups.

CAUCUS: New Jersey
$10,000
Dr. Steve Adubato, Jr
Producer/Anchor
(973)744-5260
Caucus Educational Corporation developed and implemented Stand & Deliver: Communication Tools for Tomorrow's Leaders, an afterschool program aimed at instilling self-confidence and improving communication, leadership, and job readiness skills of high school students in Newark. Victoria's grant supported the 2006 program for 255 Newark youth at 20 Newark sites, plus another 100 youth in the summer program.

Center for Talented Youth /Johns Hopkins University
$60,000
Dr. Lea Ybarra
Executive Director
(410)735-4100
The Center for Talented Youth operates an academically rigorous three-week residential program each summer for 10,000 gifted students at 23 university campuses around the country. Victoria Foundation's grant helped to ensure that 100 students from Newark participated in this program.

Chad School Foundation
$50,000
The Honorable William Payne
Chairman
(973)623-4806
This grant supported teachers' salaries that were past due.

Children's Literacy Initiative
$300,000
Ms. Linda Katz
Executive Director
(215)561-4676
Children's Literacy Initiative is a research-driven, early literacy program for pre-kindergarten through third grade educators, targeting schools serving low-income families. CLI seeks to close the gap in literacy achievement between poor, urban children and their more affluent suburban counterparts. This grant supported three-day institutes, followed by one-on-one coaching for 85 Newark teachers.

Communities in Schools of Newark
$100,000
Dr. Jennifer Durham
Executive Director
(973)623-4202
The mission of Communities In Schools of Newark is "to champion the connection of needed community resources with schools to help young people successfully learn, stay in school, and prepare for life." Victoria's grant supported the salaries of CISN project directors at 13th and 15th Avenue Elementary Schools in Newark to assess students' unmet needs, and to develop and implement intervention plans.

Discovery Charter School/Community Foundation of New Jersey
$5,000
Ms. Barbara Weiland
Head of School
(973)429-8360
This capital grant supported the parent-engagement project, Bring Back the Kitchen Table, at the Discovery Charter School in Newark. Grant funds were used to purchase tables and other library equipment.

Eagleton Institute of Politics/Rutgers
$20,000
Dr. Ruth B. Mandel
Director
(732)932-9384
This general operating grant supported Newark Student Voices, an organization based at the Eagleton Institute of Politics at Rutgers. Newark Student Voices brings a year-long, civic education curriculum to young people in 14 high schools in Newark.

Education Law Center
$20,000
Mr. David G Sciarra
Executive Director
(973)624-1815
The Education Law Center filed the Abbott v. Burke Supreme Court case on behalf of all children attending poor urban and rural schools in New Jersey. This grant supported the Abbott Indicators Project, which measured the results of court-mandated school reform efforts in Newark.

Greater Newark Conservancy
$75,000
Ms. Robin Dougherty
Executive Director
(973)642-4646
The Greater Newark Conservancy provides educational, community greening, environmental justice, and job training programs to residents of Newark. This grant supported the Conservancy's educational programs for Newark students and teachers, which included 11,000 public school children.

Jersey Urban Debate League/FOCUS
$40,000
Mr. Brent Ferrand
Director
(908)578-2776
The Jersey Urban Debate League is part of a national movement to reintroduce policy debate into public schools. The Debate League is attempting to expand upon the success of the Science High School Debate Team, which has won the New Jersey State debate championships for the past 20 years of its 23-year existence. The Victoria grant provided support to include an additional 200 Newark students in the debate program.

Kids Corporation II
$100,000 and $100,000
Ms. Michaela Murray Nolan
Executive Director
(973)877-0980
Kids Corporation II provides educational and health resources to children in first through eighth grades throughout Newark. The Victoria grant supported the Kids Corp. Educational Services Division to provide year-round educational and life resources to elementary school children, including classroom supplies, books, clothing, field trips and healthcare services.

Another grant of $100,000 was a pledge of capital support for the purchase and renovation of the Kids Camp facilities in Blairstown, NJ.

Kids In Business
$20,000
Ms. Barbara Weiland
Executive Director
(973)623-0222
Kids In Business provides in-school entrepreneurial learning opportunities and work experiences to youth in 11 Newark schools. This grant supported general operating expenses.

Latino Institute
$20,000
Mr. William Colon
Director
(973)481-2522
Founded in 2004, The Latino Institute seeks to improve the quality of life for the Latino community by promoting educational achievement and the infusion of Latino culture in America. This grant supported the Latino Parents Intervention Program in Newark, an effort to provide parenting skills and early literacy techniques to 160 parents with very young children.

Liberty Science Center & Hall of Technology
$750,000
Dr. Emlyn Koster
President
(973)451-0006
Liberty Science Center is a world-class science museum, and is the most visited museum in New Jersey. This capital grant supported the design and construction of a new exhibit, Our Hudson Home: Living with an Urban Estuary.

Link Community School
$75,000
Ms. Marnie G. McKoy
Principal
(973)642-0529
Located in the Central Ward of Newark, Link Community School is an independent middle school founded in 1969. Ninety percent of Link's 125 seventh and eighth graders come directly from the Newark Public Schools. Victoria's grant provided general operating support for this alternative school that places all of its 8th grade graduates into prestigious secondary schools.

New Jersey Historical Society
$75,000
Ms.Linda Epps
President & CEO
(973)596-8500
The New Jersey Historical Society houses an historical museum, library, and archives dedicated to collecting and preserving the history of New Jersey. Victoria's grant supported NJHS' education programs for Newark students and their teachers, which are developed with, and delivered in, the public schools as well as at the museum.

New Jersey Institute of Technology Foundation
$20,000
Dr. Robert A. Altenkirch
President
(973)596-3000
NJIT's Pre-College Center provides academic enrichment and professional development for students and teachers. This grant supported the Elementary Science Outreach Program in Newark, which helps teachers to master constructivist, inquiry-based methods of teaching science.

New Jersey Performing Arts Center
$400,000
Mr. Lawrence P. Goldman
President & CEO
(973)642-8989
The New Jersey Performing Arts Center has had more than just an economic impact on Newark, it has become an essential part of the community through its education and outreach programs. Victoria's grant supported a wide range of arts education activities benefitting more than 18,000 Newark children.

New Jersey SEEDS
$43,000
Ms. Amy Ziebarth
President
(973)642-6422
New Jersey SEEDS strives to give academically talented yet financially disadvantaged eighth grade students the opportunity to attend and succeed at prestigious private high schools. Victoria's grant supported SEEDS' program to provide rigorous academic enrichment to Newark students in preparation for taking secondary schools entrance exams.

New Jersey Superintendents Study Council
$75,000
Dr. Michael J. Osnato
Director
(973)275-2869
The New Jersey Superintendents Study Council serves as the fiscal sponsor for the Newark Grow Your Own Initiative, which takes a cohort of 25 Newark public school teachers through an intensive Seton Hall University two-year leadership-training program. Each teacher will earn a 39-credit Master's of Art degree and a principal's certification. Victoria's grant provided tuition subsidies to all participating Newark teachers.

New Jersey Symphony Orchestra
$65,000 and $100,000
Dr. Victor Parsonnet
Chairman
(973)624-3713
The New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Maestro Neeme Jarvi, is the Resident Orchestra of the New Jersey Performing Arts Center. Victoria's grant supported the Newark Early Strings Program, which provided Suzuki violin instruction to 500 elementary school children in Newark.

Victoria Foundation awarded this supplemental grant to NJSO to assist its recapitalization efforts. Funds will purchase 2,500 classical concert tickets to be used free of charge by Newark residents.

Newark Boys Chorus School
$40,000
Ms. Vickie Snoy
Executive Directo
(973)621-8900
The Newark Boys Chorus School provides 80 fourth through eighth grade boys with a challenging education, as well as an excellent arts experience that includes instruction in musical theory, sight reading, voice, and choral training. This grant supported general operating expenses.

Newark Do Something
$10,000
Ms. Michelle Rinehart
Executive Director
(973)643-6373
Newark Do Something was founded in 1993 to promote youth leadership and community activism. This grant supported the Community Coach Program, which involves 1,500 youth as leaders in 67 Newark public schools.

Newark Museum Association
$205,000
Ms. Mary Sue Sweeney Price
Director
(973)596-6550
One of the premier art and science museums, the Newark Museum is a national leader in education programs. This grant supported wide-ranging educational programs that served more than 480,000 children and adults, including professional development workshops for teachers. Victoria's funds also enabled the Museum to do long-range planning and to develop a new Education Strategic Plan to enhance interdisciplinary alliances between the arts and sciences.

Newark Public Library
$2,500
Ms. Wilma S. Grey
Executive Director
(201)733-7780
This grant supported honorariums to historians who serve as trainers and mentors of the oral history project at the Library.

Newark Public Schools
$81,000 and $5,000
Ms. Marion Bolden
State Superintendent
(973)733-7333
The Newark Public Schools, under the leadership of State Superintendent Marion Bolden, is committed to providing students of Newark with an excellent education. This grant supported a collaborative effort between NPS and the Educational Testing Service to develop a uniform, customized assessment tool for teachers, and to train principals in the use of the rubric to observe and evaluate classroom educators.

A second grant of $5,000 helped enable the children at Newark’s Oliver Street School to participate in the 2005 First Lego League Global Exhibition in Japan.

Newark Public Schools Foundation
$25,000
Ms. Claudia Edwards
Executive Director
(973)273-0320
The Newark Public Schools Foundation is a recently incorporated, independent non-profit organization set up to raise and disburse funds to enable children in the Newark Public Schools to take advantage of high quality extracurricular opportunities. This grant provided start-up operating support.

Newark School of the Arts
$40,000
Mr. Stephen Shiman
Executive Director
(973)642-0133
Newark School of the Arts provides high quality, sequential instruction in music, drama, dance, and visual arts to students from the greater Newark area. Victoria's grant provided financial aid and scholarships to Newark youth.

North Ward Center
$150,000
Mr. Stephen N. Adubato
Executive Director
(973)481-0415
The North Ward Center is a multi-service, community-based agency in Newark providing early childhood education, medical day care, youth development and counseling, job skills training, ESL classes, and GED preparation. In 1997, NWC founded the Robert Treat Academy, an 11-month, K-8 charter school in Newark. Victoria's grant supported the capital expenses related to the construction of a new preschool facility, freeing up space for NWC to open a second charter school.

Passaic River Institute/Montclair State University
$25,000
Dr. Kirk Barrett
Director
(973)655-7117
The Passaic River Institute was created in 2003 to support MSU faculty who are engaged in research related to the Passaic River. In addition to environmental research, the Institute's mission includes outreach and education. This grant supported an intensive summer camp program focused on environmental education for 60 Newark high school students.

Pathways to College/Ophelia J. Berry Fund
$18,000
Ms. Judith B. Griffin
Executive Director
(201)541-0822
Pathways to College is a high school-based program that attempts to expand the pool of eligible college students from underrepresented groups. Pathways provides youth with academic enrichment, as well as college preparation activities. This grant provided general operating support.

Playwrights Theatre of New Jersey
$25,000
Mr. John Pietrowski
Artistic Director
(973)514-1787
Playwrights Theatre of New Jersey helps playwrights develop new works in a nurturing environment and provides arts education to children throughout New Jersey. Victoria's grant supported the Newark Young Writers Program, an artist-in-residency program followed by a schoolwide assemby that showcases the students' writing.

Principals' Center for the Garden State
$15,000
Ms. Elaine Peeler Davis
Executive Director
(609)771-3065
The Principals' Center for the Garden State provides summer residential institutes, workshops, research dissemination, and the creation of professional networks intended to enhance the leadership capacity of principals and vice principals. Victoria's grant supported a range of professional development opportunities for 30 Newark principals.

Project THISTLE/Montclair State University
$40,000
Dr. Maughn Gregory
Director
(973)655-7049
Launched in 1981 with funding from the Victoria Foundation, Project THISTLE is a Montclair State University program designed to help Newark public school teachers enhance critical thinking skills and to promote higher order thinking skills in their students. Victoria's grant provided the tuition subsidy necessary to enable Newark teachers to participate in six graduate level courses free of charge.

Queen of Angels School
$18,000
Ms. Everlyn V. Hay
Principal
(973)642-1531
In 1963, the parishioners of Queen of Angels Church established a school in order to provide a quality Catholic education for children of the parish and the neighborhood. Victoria's grant supported the salary of a technology instructor.

Recording for the Blind and Dyslexic
$5,000
Ms. Sandi Wilson
Development Director
(609)750-9579
Recording for the Blind and Dyslexic is a national organization that provides audio versions of the printed word for the blind, dyslexic, and others with print disabilities. Victoria's grant supported the recording of textbooks to benefit Newark children.

Saint Mary School
$20,000
Sr. Theresa M. Shaw
Principal
(973)286-3870
Saint Mary School is a kindergarten through eighth grade school in Newark. This grant helped retain a media specialist, and upgrade computers and library materials.

Saint Vincent Academy
$110,000
Sr. June Favata
Administrative Director
(973)622-1613
Saint Vincent Academy, the only private high school for girls in Newark, was founded in 1869 by the Sisters of Charity of Saint Elizabeth. SVA provides young women with a values-based secondary education that focuses on solid academics, leadership, and community service. Victoria supported the math training program for ninth and tenth grade students.

School of the Garden State Ballet
$25,000
Ms. Jody Jaron
Director
(973)623-1033
The School of the Garden State Ballet was founded in Newark in 1950. Now located in Newark Symphony Hall, Victoria Foundation provided scholarship support to enable 400 Newark children to participate in rigorous ballet and other dance instruction.

Sharron Miller's Academy for the Performing Arts
$20,000
Ms. Sharron Miller
Artistic Director
(973)655-9819
Sharron Miller's Academy for the Performing Arts provides comprehensive developmental training to children, teens and adults with interest and ability in dance and related theatre arts. Victoria¹s grant provided support to initiate arts education programs at two Newark public schools: the Samuel L. Berliner School and the Quitman Street Community School.

St. Benedict's Preparatory School
$50,000
Rev. Edwin O. Leahy
Headmaster
(973)643-4800
St. Benedict's, a private secondary school, provides young men from the greater Newark area with a rigorous and challenging college preparatory program. The Foundation supported scholarships for Newark students.

St. Philip's Academy
$90,000 and $100,000
Mr. Miguel J. Brito
Head of School
(973)624-0644
Founded in Newark in 1988 in the Episcopal tradition, St. Philip's Academy is an independent, K-8 school that provides a rigorous, child-centered academic and moral education for 300 kindergarten through eighth grade children from the greater Newark area. This grant provided operating support targeting efforts to retain and recruit exemplary faculty and to provide financial aid to students.

A second capital grant supported the Academy's relocation and expansion in the University Heights Science Park district of Newark

Student Partner Alliance
$35,000
Ms. Frieda Zaffarese
Executive Director
(973)379-5878
Student Partner Alliance enables low-income students from the greater Newark area to attend parochial and private high schools. SPA recruites 'partners' who make a four-year financial commitment, supporting 300 students in 10 area schools. Victoria's grant supported administrative costs so that all partner funds were directed to scholarships for students.

Teach For America
$50,000
Mr. Lars Clemensen
Executive Director
(973)621-8188
Teach for America places highly motivated, committed graduates from the nation's top universities in low-income, under-performing public schools. This grant supported the recruitment, selection, pre-service training, and ongoing professional development for 40 Teach for America corps members in the Newark public schools.

TEAM Academy Charter School
$75,000
Mr. Ryan Hill
School Leader
(973)705-8326
TEAM (Together, Everyone Achieves More) Academy is a charter school in Newark, which replicates the KIPP model. TEAM provides an academically rigorous, college prep program to 320 fifth through eighth grade students chosen by lottery. Victoria's grant provided capital support to create six new classrooms, bathrooms, and kitchen facilities on the lower level of the building.

United Academy
$45,000
Ms. Penny H. Lemon
Principal
(973)643-7111
Founded in 1951, United Academy was the first independent school in Newark controlled by African Americans. This Newark elementary school offers students a challenging academic program. Victoria's grant supported scholarships and classroom improvements.

W.E.B. DuBois Scholars Institute
$35,000
Dr. Sherle L. Boone
Executive Director
(973)720-3394
The W.E.B. DuBois Scholar's Institute provides a summer academic enrichment program to academically gifted youth to encourage them to address issues of poverty and racism. Victoria's grant supported 20 Newark students' participation in the Scholar's Institute.

Youth Consultation Service
$40,000
Mr. Richard Mingoia
Executive Director
(973)482-8411
Youth Consultation Service is a comprehensive mental health services organization. In Newark, YCS also provides educational, recreational, and social services to at-risk children. This grant funded an afterschool and summer enrichment program for 50 children in the North Ward of Newark.

ENVIRONMENT

Association of New Jersey Environmental Commissions
$45,000
Ms. Sandy Batty
Executive Director
(973)539-7547
ANJEC is a 35-year-old organization that works to educate and support environmental commissions, local officials, and citizens to promote the public interest in a wide range of environmental protection issues. This grant helped the organization's initiative to support and monitor the implementation of the Highlands Act.

Conservation Resources, Inc.
$5,000
Mr. Michael Catania
President
(973)543-4437
Conservation Resources, Inc. strives to increase the capacity, expertise, and financial resources available to private and public conservation efforts in New Jersey. Victoria provided general operating support.

Eastern Environmental Law Center of New Jersey
$15,000
Ms. Robin Greenwald
Executive Director
(973)353-5695
The Eastern Environmental Law Center of New Jersey is a nonprofit public interest environmental law firm. It also operates the Environmental Law Clinic at Rutgers Law School providing practical experience to second and third-year law students interested in environmental law. The Foundation grant enabled EELC to provide legal assistance to nonprofit environmental and community organizations in New Jersey.

Environmental Defense
$20,000
Mr. Frederic D. Krupp
Executive Director
(212)505-2100
Environmental Defense is dedicated to protecting the environmental rights of all people, including the right to clean air, clean water, healthy food, and flourishing ecosystems. This grant provided operating support targeting New Jersey initiatives.

Hackensack Riverkeeper
$35,000
Capt. Bill Sheehan
Executive Director
(201)968-0808
Victoria's grant provided general operating support for this organization, which focuses on and advocates for the environmental health of the Hackensack River watershed. During the grant year the organization became more active in the lower portion of the watershed, including the Lower Passaic River and Newark Bay.

Natural Resources Defense Council
$15,000
Mr. John H. Adams
(212)727-2700
The Natural Resources Defense Council is dedicated to protecting and preserving the nation's natural resources and public health, through constant and vigorous defense against pollution and over-consumption of our natural resources. This grant supported efforts in New Jersey.

New Jersey Conservation Foundation
$60,000 and $400,000
Ms. Michele S. Byers
Executive Director
(908)234-1225
NJCF has become one of the nation's most effective statewide land conservation organizations, helping to protect more than 100,000 acres of New Jersey land through acquisition, stewardship, and effective advocacy for conservation policies. Victoria's grant enabled NJCF staff to provide technical assistance to its many land conservation partners throughout New Jersey.

A second land acquisition grant enabled NJCF to purchase the Culvermere property, which is located in the Ridge and Valley region of New Jersey.

New Jersey Future
$25,000
Mr. George Hawkins
Executive Director
(609)393-0008
New Jersey Future is the leading voice for Smart Growth in New Jersey. It promotes state and local policies that conserve land and revitalize urban communities. This grant supported efforts to create incentives that would encourage New Jersey's 566 municipalities to create land use plans aligned with the smart growth principles that comprise the State Plan.

NJ Public Interest Research Group
$5,000
Ms. Dena Mottola
Executive Director
(609)394-8155
NJPIRG is the parent agency for the New Jersey Community Water Watch, a project that involves AmeriCorps volunteers serving as community organizers to protect the State's water quality. Victoria's grant specifically targeted the work in Newark to restore the ecological health of the Passaic River and its main tributary, the Second River.

Pinelands Preservation Alliance
$40,000
Mr. Carleton Montgomery
Executive Director
(609)859-8860
The Pinelands Preservation Alliance is the only non-governmental organization committeed to protecting and preserving New Jersey's Pinelands. Victoria's grant supported PPA's efforts to protect and preserve the Kirkwood-Cohansey aquifer, the largest source of unspoiled water in the Northeast.

Raritan Baykeeper
$95,000
Mr. Andrew J. Willner
Executive Director
(732)888-7890
The Baykeeper protects, preserves, and restores the ecological integrity and productivity of the Hudson-Raritan Estuary, its tributaries, and its watershed. This grant supported staff activities to identify, analyze, and protect ecologically significant lands, including urban greenway corridors, and to press for collection and utilization of Natural Resource Damages to restore waterfront properties.

Trust for Public Land
$40,000
Mr. Terrance Nolan
Director of the New Jersey Field Office
(973)292-1100
Trust for Public Land conserves land for people as parks, gardens and other natural places, ensuring livable communities for generations to come. Victoria's grant provided general operating support for its New Jersey Field Office.

NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT/URBAN ACTIVITIES

Center for Civic Responsibility
$25,000
Mr. Harry S. Pozycki
President
(732)548-9798
The Center for Civic Responsibility is a statewide organization that seeks to empower the grassroots community to effectively achieve neighborhood goals through civic participation. This grant specifically targeted training and community organizing activities in Newark.

Center for Nonprofit and Philanthropic Leadership/Rutgers
$25,000
Mr. James Abruzzo & Mr. Alex Plinio
Co-Directors
(972)353-1134
The Center for Nonprofit and Philanthropic Leadership at Rutgers is dedicated to improving and strengthening executive leadership and governance of these sectors. This grant supported Leaders Common Ground, a project to work with a cohort of executive directors from Newark for monthly seminars and one-on-one coaching.

Community Foundation of New Jersey
$7,500
Mr. Hans Dekker
President
(973)267-5533
This grant supported the Community Foundation's Neighborhood Leadership Initiative to identify and train emerging neighborhood leaders across the state. Victoria’s support specifically targeted participants from Newark.

CREST Community Development Corporation
$40,000
Ms. Geraldine N. Harvey
Director and CEO
(973)621-0770
CREST is involved in the revitalization of the Westside Park section of Newark, building affordable homes, creating economic development opportunities for residents, and offering leadership skills training and community organizing services. Victoria's general operating grant was aimed at improving the agency's organizational capacity.

El Club del Barrio
$64,000
Dr. Muna Bosch
Executive Director
(973)624-4222
El Club del Barrio is a multi-service agency for residents of the South Broad Street/Lincoln Park section of Newark. It has provided services to youth and families for more than 25 years. The Victoria grant provided general operating support.

Episcopal Community Development
$40,000
Mr. Gerard Haizel
Interim Executive Director
(973)430-9986
Episcopal Community Development is a community development corporation that provides housing and housing services in Newark. The Victoria grant provided support for a youth financial literacy program, aimed at breaking the cycle of poverty through education, as well as the ECD Samaritan Project, which provides home ownership opportunities for low-income buyers in Newark.

Habitat for Humanity Newark
$50,000
Mr. Hendricks S. Davis
Executive Director
(973)624-3330
Habitat for Humanity Newark is an affiliate of Habitat for Humanity International, a nonprofit, ecumenical Christian housing ministry dedicated to eliminating poverty housing and homelessness. Prospective Habitat homeowners invest 400 hours of "sweat equity" helping to build their own homes. This grant provided general operating support.

Housing and Community Development Network of New Jersey
$30,000
Ms. Diane Sterner
Executive Director
(609)393-3752
The Housing and Community Development Network is a statewide association of affordable housing and community development corporations. Victoria's grant supported the second year of a multi-agency organizational assessment project to raise the standards for the entire CDC sector in Newark.

Ironbound Community Corporation
$100,000
Mr. Joseph Della Fave
Executive Director
(973)589-3353
The Ironbound Community Corporation is a multi-service, comunity-based organization that provides youth programming, multi-lingual adult education, emergency and family assistance, senior services, citizenship training, and community organizing. ICC serves 800 residents each day. Victoria provided general operating support.

La Casa de Don Pedro
$200,000
Mr. Raymond Ocasio
Executive Director
(973)482-8312
La Casa de Don Pedro is a multi-service organization that provides services and community development projects to improve the quality of life for residents in the North Ward of Newark. Victoria's grant provided general operating support for community and economic development projects.

Leadership Newark
$50,000
Ms. Celia M. King
Executive Director
(973)242-2144
Leadership Newark recruits young professionals who live or work in Newark to participate in a two-year leadership training program to supplement and enhance their knowledge of Newark, build their organizational skills, extend their professional networks, and utilize their skills and connections to improve the quality of life in Newark. The Foundation provided general operating support.

Lincoln Park/Coast Cultural District
$40,000
Mr. Baye Wilson
Executive Director
(973)242-4144
Lincoln Park/Coast Cultural District is engaged in an exciting redevelopment of a Newark neighborhood that will include artists' housing, galleries, teaching/work spaces, related new construction, and a Museum of African American Music. Victoria's grant supported the general operations of the organization during the critical early stages.

Local Initiatives Support Corporation
$80,000 and $50,000
Mr. Michael Rubinger
President & CEO
(212)455-9800
LISC is a national nonprofit, intermediary agency, which provides technical assistance, grants, and loans to community development corporations building affordable housing and community facilities. This grant provided operating support to the local affiliate, Greater Newark and Jersey City LISC, for its efforts in Newark.

A second grant added capital to the Victoria Fund, a revolving, recoverable grant fund, which provides no interest loans to community development corporations embarking on affordable housing and economic development construction projects in Newark.

New Community Corporation
$550,000
Monsignor William J. Linder
Founder/Director
(973) 482-0682
linder@newcommunity.org
Founded in the aftermath of the 1967 riots, New Community Corporation has been revitalizing Newark's Central Ward for nearly four decades with a wide array of community-based services and programs. The Foundation provided operating support for ongoing programs and new initiatives in four areas: Real Estate and Economic Development, Workforce Development, Youth Services, and Information Technology.

Newark Alliance
$50,000
Mr. Alfred C. Koeppe
President and CEO
(973) 596-6400
The Newark Alliance, established in 1999, is comprised of Newark business leaders working to "make Newark a better, safer place to work, live, learn, play, and do business." This grant supported Opporunity Project, an effort to enhance the competitiveness of Newark, and to generate sustainable jobs for low-income Newark residents.

Newark Now
$25,000 and $87,000
Mr. Modia Butler
Executive Director
(973) 733-3460
mbutler@newarknow.org
This grant supported Mayor Cory Bookers'2006 Safe Summer Initiative. Funds were used to produce and disseminate 15,000 copies of the 2006 Newark Summer Program guide,and to support structured weekend evening events and activities in 13 designated Safety Zones in July and August.

The second grant for $87,000supported its Super Neighborhood Councils initiative that provides a framework for community action partnershipwith local government.

Regional Plan Association
$50,000
Mr. Thomas Dallessio
Executive Director
(732)828-9945
tdallessio@rpa.org
The Victoria Foundation took a lead role in supporting one of Mayor Booker's top priorities during his first 100 days in office: the development of a Master Vision Plan for Newark. The Plan formulated broad strategies for the City and its neighborhoods in the fields of community development, open space and playgrounds, infrastructure, and economic development.

Rutgers' Institute on Ethnicity, Culture and the Modern Experience
$12,500
Dr. Clement Price
(973) 353-5414
caprice@andromeda.rutgers.edu
Since its founding in 1996, the Rutgers Institute on Ethnicity, Culture and the Modern Experience has emerged as a unique resource, presenting public programs and other initiatives that bring citizens who live and/or work in Newark into direct contact with scholars to enhance public understanding of urban life, local history, and race relations. The Foundation's grant supported the 2006-07 Gustav Heningburg Civic Fellows Program of semester-long residencies for selected emerging Newark leaders.

Training, Inc./Essex County College
$75,000
Dr. A. Zachary Yamba
President
(973)877-3021
Training Inc., housed at Essex County College in Newark, is an exemplary one-stop workforce development center that provides job training and ongoing support to enable more than 200 low-income Newark area residents find and retain living wage employment. This grant supported the program's general operations.

Trust for Public Land
$750,000
Mr. Terrance Nolan
Director of the New Jersey Field Office
(973)292-1100
Trust for Public Land conserves land as parks, gardens and other natural places, ensuring a livable community for generations to come. TPL's Parks for People in Newark has created seven playgrounds within the City of Newark. This grant provides funding for the first phase of the Nat Turner Park in Newark's Central Ward.

Unified Vailsburg Services Organization
$160,000
Mr. Robert M. Farley
Executive Director
(973)374-2000
Unified Vailsburg Services Organization is a long-standing, multi-service agency in Newark's Vailsburg neighbhorhood. UVSO's mission embraces children, families and the elderly, serving 650 residents and 280 children on a daily basis. The Victoria grant supported general operations, as well as the community organizing position.

Urban League of Essex County
$75,000
Ms. Vivian Cox Fraser
President and CEO
(973)624-9535
The Urban League of Essex County is a civil rights and community service organization with a strong tradition of advocacy, organizing and social service delivery. The Urban League provides early childhood education, youth programming, community organizing, and job training programs. This grant was for general operating support.

YouthBuild Newark/Episcopal Community Development
$100,000
Mr. Robert Clark
Program Director
(973)624-4720
YouthBuild Newark is a youth development program that serves out-of-school youth between the ages of 16 and 24. YouthBuild provides young people with high school equivalency dipoma training and leadership development skills, while teaching them the marketable skill of construction. The Foundation provided support to help this innovative program hire a development director.

YOUTH AND FAMILIES

Above the Rim Inc. of Newark
$7,500
Mr. Delano Gordon
Director
(973)277 9198
This grant supported Above The Rim’s summer basketball camp and tournament for Newark youth. In addition to the sports activities, the camp conducted workshops for participating youth on conflict resolution, career assessment, substance abuse, and leadership skills.

AIDS Resource Foundation for Children
$25,000
Dr. Terrence P. Zealand
Executive Director
(973)483-4250
The AIDS Resource Foundation for Children provides a range of services to individuals and families affected by HIV/AIDS in New Jersey, including: residential facilities for HIV positive babies, case management services, and subsidized housing. Victoria's grant supported the expansion of an afterschool enrichment program in Newark for children affected by the AIDS epidemic.

Apostles' House
$100,000
Ms. Sandra Accomando
Executive Director
(973)482-0625
Victoria provided general operating support to this multi-service agency. Apostles' House provided both crisis and preventive services, including a homeless shelter and support services for families at risk of losing children to foster care.

ARC of Essex County
$10,000
Mr. Joseph L. Dimino
Executive Director
(973)535-1181
ARC provides comprehensive services for children and adults with developmental disabilities. This grant provided camperships for eight Newark children to attend Camp Hope in summer 2006.

Boys & Girls Clubs of Newark
$50,000
Mr. Felix A. Rouse
Executive Director
(973)242-1200
The Boys & Girls Club of Newark serves over 4,000 youth annually. Under a new director, the Boys and Girls Clubs of Newark seeks to maximize its service potential and create a safe haven for young people that provides social and academic enrichment. This grant provided general operating support.

Boys and Girls Clubs of Newark LifeCamp
$30,000
Mr. James C. Brady, Jr.
Trustee
(908)234-1900
LifeCamp is an educationally enriching and nurturing six-week day camp program located in Pottersville, New Jersey serving 380 Newark children. This grant supported camperships for Newark children for the summer of 2006.

Camp Vacamas Association
$15,000
Mr. Michael H. Friedman
Executive Director
(973)838-3023
Since 1997, Camp Vacamas has been providing educational enrichment programs during the school year to children in grades 6 to 8 in Newark's alternate education program. Victoria's support enabled the Camp to initiate an intensive 3-week residential program for these students with the goal of achieving sufficient academic and behavioral gains to return to mainstream classrooms.

Community Agencies Corporation of New Jersey
$25,000
Ms. Dorothy Knauer
Executive Director
(973)621-2273
Community Agencies Corporation serves as the non-profit umbrella corporation for three agencies serving disadvantaged children and families: Protestant Community Centers, Inc., Friendly Fuld, and Cross Counter. Victoria's supported capacity building efforts stemming from a strategic planning process.

Community FoodBank of New Jersey
$100,000 and $5,000
Ms. Kathleen DiChiara
Executive Director
(908)355-3663
The Community FoodBank of New Jersey ships 22 million pounds of food annually to 1,500 charities throughout the state, including 161 in Newark. Victoria's grant supported Community FoodBank's newsletters and direct mail campaigns, which educate the public regarding hunger and poverty, and attracts new and renewing funders.

A second grant of $5,000 supported the Gathering of Goodness 30th Anniversary Celebration.

Emmanuel Church of Christ
$15,000
Ms. Delores Matthews
Camp Project Integrator
(973)242-3552
Emmanuel provides afterschool programs and a safe haven summer camp in a nurturing environment for children in Newark's Central Ward. This grant supported Emmanuel's six-week summer camp for at-risk children in the distressed neighborhood that surrounds the church.

FOCUS Hispanic Center for Community Development
$10,000 and $5,000
Mr. Casto Maldonado
President & CEO
(973)624-2528
FOCUS is a multi-service agency that serves the Hispanic population in Newark. This grant enhanced the 2006 Summer Shadow Program, a six-week summer day camp for Newark youth at risk of dropping out of school.

A second grant supported Celebrate Familia, a community-wide outreach event in partnership with the Newark Museum and the Newark Public Library.

Friendly Fuld Neighborhood Centers
$95,000
Ms. Dorothy Knauer
Executive Director
(973)621-2273
Friendly Fuld is a multipurpose organization serving the needs of children and families in Newark's Central Ward. Victoria's grant supported the afterschool program, summer day camp, mentoring, and sports leagues.

Frost Valley YMCA
$60,000 and $400,000
Mr. Jerry Huncosky
Executive Director
(973)744-3488
Frost Valley YMCA operates a year-round camp in the Catskills with programs designed to help people of all backgrounds reach their potential through active involvement with the natural world and with each other. This grant supported two-week residential camperships for 130 Newark children in summer 2006.

In addition, a $400,000 capital grant supported the construction of a state-of-the-art wellness center and a family retreat center.

Girl Scout Council of Greater Essex and Hudson Counties
$70,000
Ms. Janice C. Lilien
Executive Director
(973)746-8200
The Girl Scout Council of Greater Essex County has been a Victoria grantee since 1957, with funding specifically targeting Newark girls since 1993. Victoria's grant enabled over 1,300 girls and 170 adult volunteers to participate in year round Girl Scout programming throughout the City of Newark.

Girl Scouts of Rolling Hills Council
$25,000
Ms. Marilyn A. Siegel
Executive Director
(908)725-1226
Girl Scouts of Rolling Hills operates Girl Scouting Beyond Bars, a program to serve girls whose mothers are incarcerated. The Council provides a structured visiting program that enables the girls to visit their moms and participate in troop activities. This grant supported summer day camp for Newark girls in the program.

GlassRoots
$15,000
Ms. Pat Kettenring
Executive Director
(973)353-5961
GlassRoots was founded in 2001 to provide afterschool and summer programs in glassworking, design concepts, and business skills for youth. Victoria's grant provided general operating support to enable the participation of Newark youth.

Greater Life
$20,000
Rev. Michael Westbrook
President
(973)923-2264
Greater Life provides a range of services to youth in the South Ward of Newark. This grant supported programs at the Community Outreach Center.

Independence: A Family of Services
$40,000
Ms. Margaret L. Woods
Executive Director
(973)589-0959
Independence offers a holistic approach to case management, referral, and other supportive services for disadvantaged, emotionally troubled youth and their families from the greater Newark area. Victoria's grant supported Project Mgbede, a flexible, integrated service delivery system to ensure that youth served do not penetrate deeper into the State's child welfare, mental health, and juvenile justice systems.

Integrity, Inc.
$40,000
Mr. David H. Kerr
President
(973)623-0600
Founded in 1968, Integrity House provides substance abuse treatment to over 1,800 persons each year through its core residential and outpatient programs for adolescents and adults. Another 2,300 youth take part in Integrity's prevention programs. Victoria's grant supported the expansion of Webus, a computer-based client tracking and support system.

Morristown Neighborhood House Association
$75,000
Mr. David Walker
Executive Director
(973)538-1229
This multiservice agency serves the needs of low-income Morristown residents. This grant provided support for the School-Age Child Care academic and enrichment program, as well as a delinquency prevention program.

Newark Emergency Services for Families
$95,000
Ms. Shelia Baynes
Executive Director
(973)643-5727
Newark Emergency Services for Families is a multi-service agency that works to stabilize and strengthen individuals and families in crisis in the greater Newark area. Victoria funding supported general operations, direct emergency services, and the afterschool and summer programs for homeless children in Newark.

Newark Family Resource Network
$25,000
Ms. Mildred Crews
Executive Director
(973)642-1612
Newark Family Resource Network has been providing child abuse and neglect prevention services for twenty years. Victoria's grant supported the delivery of services to those clients referred to the organization who are not currently involved in the DYFS (Division of Youth and Family Services) division, but who require assistance.

Pennsylvania Youth Advocate Programs
$34,000
Ms. Minette Bauer
Deputy Chief Executive Officer
(717)232 7580
Youth Advocates Program provides advocacy, mentoring, and wrap-around services to youth subject to compulsory care, supervision, and/or incarceration. YAP trains and employs community members to work with youth and their families as a mentor, and to coordinate services. Victoria's grant provided support for YAP to offer their services to five high-risk youth in the Newark Housing Authority's project at Baxter Terrace.

Planned Parenthood of Metropolitan NJ
$50,000
Ms. Delores Tyson
Executive Director
(973)622-3900
Planned Parenthood remains committed to the ideal of the individual's right to control his/her own fertility, including that right for teenagers. Victoria supported health and life skills education services for teens in Newark. An important component of the program is peer counseling, for which a corps of teens is recruited and trained to reach out to other teens through issue-based skits, which they write and perform.

Princeton-Blairstown Center
$32,000
Mr. David Moriah
Executive Director
(609)258-2693
Princeton-Blairstown Center is a camp with a program based on experiential learning and adventure-challenge activities. It serves youth and youth agency staff from a number of urban areas in the region. This grant subsidized the participation of Newark community organizations and supported a program for rising Newark ninth graders identified as likely to have difficulty adjusting to and succeeding in high school.

Project U.S.E.
$30,000
Mr. Michael Bagley
Executive Director
(732)219-7300
Project U.S.E. is a statewide program that uses experiential learning as an alternate modeling tool to help young people build social skills, self confidence, and an appreciation for the environment. Victoria's grant supported services to Newark youth.

Protestant Community Centers, Inc.
$110,000
Ms. Dorothy Knauer
Executive Director
(973)621-2273
Protestant Community Centers, Inc. provides a wide range of programs designed to enrich the lives of at-risk youth and families in Newark. Victoria's grant provided general operating support to maintain PCCI's afterschool enrichment program, summer day camp, and a mentoring program that matches 400 Newark public school children with trained adult volunteers throughout northern New Jersey.

QUEST INK!
$25,000
Ms. Joyce Smith Carter
Program Director
(973)824-5136
QUEST INK! provides a unique summer camp experience for Newark children, staffed by college students who have been trained at the Kujenga Leadership Institute. Victoria's grant supported the Institute, which is comprised of a week of policy seminars on urban issues affecting high poverty areas.

Renaissance Community Development Corporation Center
$5,000
Rev. Thomas Reddick
Pastor
(973)481-3431
Renaissance Community Development Corporation is a grassroots, faith-based neighborhood services organization in the Roseville section of Newark. Renaissance CDC provides substance abuse treatment services, case management for families, a food pantry, and afterschool and summer programs for youth. Victoria's grant supported the afterschool educational enrichment program.

Salvation Army
$21,000
Major Charles Kelly
Essex County Coordinator
(973)623-5959
The Foundation provided 2006 camperships for grandparents and grandchildren from Newark to attend Camp Tecumseh, the Salvation Army's residential summer camp located in Pittstown, New Jersey. Participating grandparents have the daily custodial care of their grandchildren, and this program provided them with specialized activities and respite, while their grandchildren experienced sleep-away camp across the lake.

St. James Social Services Corporation
$15,000
Ms. Vesta Godwin Clark
Executive Director
(973)624-4007
Victoria's grant supported St. James' summer camp. The camp program is designed around creative ways for staff, children and parents to work on conflict resolution techniques as well as reinforcing children's academic skills.

Trail Blazers Camps
$16,000
Ms. Kate Sullivan
Executive Director
(212)529-5113
Trail Blazers is a social service organization that provides at-risk youth with an intensive, goal-oriented camping experience designed to build values and skills essential for productive citizenship. Victoria's grant provided scholarships for ten Newark youngsters referred by neighborhood agencies.

Union Chapel Community Development Corporation
$25,000
Ms. Ruby Baskerville
Executive Director
(973)282-0125
This faith-based nonprofit agency provides several programs for its neighborhood. Victoria's grant supported the afterschool program, which has a strong reading and writing component as well as a computer literacy initiative.

United Way of Essex & West Hudson
$150,000
Ms. Maria Vizcarrondo-DeSoto
Executive Director
(973)624-8300
United Way of Essex & West Hudson's primary mission is community building through grants and capacity-building technical assistance. Victoria's grant supported United Way's Bridges to Success, a coalition of 14 Newark agencies working together to strengthen services, and to identify and effectively respond to the unmet needs of children and teens, ages 7 to 19.

Young Men’s Christian Association of Montclair
$100,000
Mr. Thomas E. Boyton
Executive Director
(973)744-3400
The YMCA of Montclair promotes the moral, social, and physical development of individuals and families in the local community. This capital grant supported construction of a new facility, The Family Center, where children and families have space to play, exercise, and learn together in a safe and friendly environment.

Youth Development Clinic of Newark
$40,000
Dr. Patricia Connors
Executive Director
(973)623-5080
YDC provides comprehensive mental and emotional health services to residents of the greater Newark area. This grant supported YDC's work with students, families, teachers, and administrators at two public elementary schools and three preschool centers in Newark.

YWCA of Essex & West Hudson
$31,000 and $10,000
Ms. Linda Chelotti
Chief Executive Officer
(973)672-9500
The YWCA provides a full range of services to girls in the Essex and West Hudson region, including specialized programs for Newark girls. Victoria's funds supported camperships for 30 homeless and at-risk girls from Newark to attend Camp Lenoloc for two weeks during the summers of 2005 and 2006.

A second grant of $10,000 supported TechGYRLS, an afterschool computer training program for homeless young women living in Newark shelters.