The Northern New Jersey Community Foundation (NNJCF), a not-for-profit 501(c)3 organization based in Hackensack, New Jersey, focuses primarily on civic engagement, education, public health, the environment, philanthropy, and the arts. Founded in 1998, the NNJCF works with local governments, school districts, businesses, non-profit organizations, and citizen groups in Northern New Jersey to improve
community life. Every day, the Foundation asks: What can we do together that we can't do alone? The Foundation's partners identify and resolve regional problems and opportunities by talking and learning from each other and sharing ideas, best practices, services, and resources. Philanthropy
The Northern New Jersey Community Foundation offers the region a comprehensive menu of philanthropic opportunities. Donor-advised funds, tax-saving annuities, and trust options provide donors with flexible, efficient, and tax-effective ways to ensure their charitable giving has maximum impact.
“When establishing a donor-advised fund, donors create a legacy of charitable giving by recommending grants to causes of interest, in honor of someone special, or in memory of a deceased loved one. They can name successors to continue the giving beyond their lifetime. Tax benefits also exist. All contributions to donor-advised funds are tax deductible to the extent allowed by law," said Danielle De Laurentis, Associate Director, Northern New Jersey Community Foundation. Initiatives
The Northern New Jersey Community Foundation’s ArtsBergen initiative is an emerging arts alliance in Bergen County that supports and encourages creative placemaking, the practice of integrating arts and culture into a neighborhood, town, or region to build community and livability and boost local economy. The initiative's mission is to energize and unify artists and arts organizations and connect the Bergen County community to the arts. Building on successes in our six fields of interest, we are expanding our Environmental activities. Responding to New Jersey’s extreme vulnerability to climate change, we will work across the region to increase the general public’s knowledge of global warming, raise levels of corporate, institutional, and civic preparedness for severe weather events, and initiate efforts to provide additional storm flooding protection along the Hackensack River. Contact Us
For more information, visit our website at www.nnjcf.org, send an email to [email protected], or call (201) 568-5608. Follow the NNJCF on Facebook , on Instagram at www.instagram.com/nnjcf_artsbergen/ and Twitter .
