The Princeton Area Community Foundation, the community foundation serving central New Jersey, has awarded $475,000 in competitive grants to 19 local nonprofit organizations that build social capital (the shared will and networks needed to tackle community problems) and provide opportunities to low-income individuals and families.
The grants, supporting organizations that create shared will and networks to tackle community problems, target greater Mercer County through the Community Foundation’s signature program, Greater Mercer Grants.
The Community Foundation collaborates with the Harbourton Foundation and charitable funds established at the Foundation by individuals and families to support this signature program, including: Tristan Beplat Fund, B.S. Berlin Foundation Fund, Blair Family Fund, Charles L. and Ann Lee Brown Fund, James E. & Diane W. Burke Fund, Judith and William Burks Fund, Jane M. Campbell Fund, Esther Y. Eure Fund, Archer & Thomas Harvey Fund, Robert Wood Johnson Jr. Fund, Kuser Arts Fund, LVC Fund, Princeton Youth Fund, Leroy E. “Brick” Purvis Charitable Fund, Barbara B. Smoyer Memorial Fund, Marjorie R. Smoyer Fund, Stanley C. Smoyer Fund, Speir Fund, Frank E. Taplin Jr. Fund, Weymar Fund, Whitehead Fund, Willy N. Fund, the Zing Fund.
Building Community: support for projects to build the region’s social capital
Center for Supportive Schools: $25,000 for Campaign Connect
Housing and Community Development Network of NJ: $25,000 for the Trenton Neighborhood Restoration Campaign
Mercer Alliance to End Homelessness: $25,000 to implement a plan to end individual homelessness in Mercer County
The Citizens Campaign: $40,000.00 for Impact Trenton: From Issues to Action
Work Environment Council of New Jersey: $43,000 for Trenton Healthy Schools Now
Program Support for low-income individuals and families
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Mercer County: $25,000 for mentoring programs
Children’s Home Society of NJ: $25,000 for the Trenton Education Dance Institute (TEDI)
Community Loan Fund of New Jersey: $20,000 for a Trenton Housing Market Assessment
Corner House Foundation: $20,000 for the Empowering Young Women Through Education and Work program
Meals on Wheels of Trenton/Ewing: $15,000 for the Subsidized Meal Program
Mercer Street Friends Center: $25,000 for the Hunger Relief and Prevention Program
New Jersey SEEDS: $15,000 for the College Preparatory Program, Trenton
Shiloh Community Development Corporation: $25,000 for the Shiloh CDC – Freedom School
Storytelling Arts: $22,945 for the Developing Emergent Literacy Skills program
Young Audiences of New Jersey & Eastern PA: $24,000 for the Trenton Adopt-a-School Initiative
Unrestricted Support to help nonprofits do their best work
Boys & Girls Club of Mercer County: $25,000
Habitat for Humanity – Trenton Area: $25,000
Latin American Legal Defense and Educational Fund: $25,000
Millhill Child & Family Development Corporation: $25,000
