Impact100 Essex
Grant Recipients

2023-2024

Impact Grant Recipient: Newark Emergency Services for Families

https://www.nesfnj.org/

The mission of Newark Emergency Services for Families, Inc. (NESF) is to stabilize and empower individuals and families in crisis by providing financial assistance, case management, support services, and community resources. With a focus on housing and food insecurities, as well as workforce development, NESF serves as an anchor social service institution that helps residents survive today so that they may thrive tomorrow.


2023-2024

Equity Grant Recipients:

  • AAPI Montclair

  • Keys 2 Success

  • SHE Wins Inc.


2022-2023

Impact Grant Recipient: Connections at Home

https://cahnj.org/

Connections at Home’s (CAH) mission is to reduce social isolation and loneliness for homebound older adults, using technology and social work services to address the non-medical needs of socially isolated seniors. CAH’s vision is to improve the social, emotional, and physical quality of life for elders who are aging in place.


2022

Equity Grant Recipients:

  • Perinatal Equity

  • The Gem Project

  • theAcademy365


2021

Impact Grant Recipient: Butterfly Dreamz

https://www.butterflydreamz.org

Butterfly Dreamz, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that helps girls develop into women who achieve their dreams and fill the roles of leadership in this nation and world. Through mentorship, scholarships, and youth-led community action, we equip girls to be confident leaders who disrupt the status quo.


2021

Equity Grant Recipients:

  • Arts Ed Newark

  • Sierra House Inc.

  • Newark Science and Sustainability, Inc.


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2020

Grant Recipient: Prevent Child Abuse - New Jersey

https://www.preventchildabusenj.org/

Prevent Child Abuse - NJ (PCA-NJ) was founded in 1979 with a mission to prevent abuse and neglect in all forms for all of NJ’s children. PCA-NJ supports 11 prevention programs serving more than 38,000 families a year in NJ and their model has been adopted as statewide practice.


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2019

Grant Recipient: MEND

https://mendnj.org/

MEND is a hunger relief organization that supports a growing network of 20 food pantries located throughout Essex County (Newark, East Orange, Bloomfield, Irvington, Maplewood, Montclair, Orange, South Orange, and West Orange.) MEND pantries fed 134,000 people in 2018.


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2018

Grant Recipient: Schools That Can

https://www.schoolsthatcan.org/newark/

Schools That Can reimagines education through Real-World Learning to close the opportunity and skills gap, by developing teachers, engaging students, and empowering leaders in education.


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2017

Grant Recipient: Covenant House

https://covenanthousenj.org/

CHNJ works with the homeless through street and community outreach, residential services (a shelter in Newark as well as permanent housing services) and support services to move young people forward on a path to independence.

Our Grant Finalists


2023-2024 Impact Grant Finalists


2022-2023 Impact Grant Finalists

Jazz House Kids

Project U.S.E.

 

Transformative Education Network (TEN) at Montclair State


2021 Impact Grant Finalists

South Ward Promise Neighborhood

 

Urban League of Essex County

 
 

Volunteer Lawyers for Justice


2020 Grant Finalists

 
Mental Health Association of Essex and Morris

Mental Health Association of Essex and Morris

 
Montclair State University Foundation

Montclair State University Foundation

 
North Jersey Community Research Initiative

North Jersey Community Research Initiative


2019 Grant Finalists

Volunteer Lawyers for Justice

Volunteer Lawyers for Justice

 
Hetrick-Martin Institute: NJ

Hetrick-Martin Institute: NJ

 
Imagine: A Center for Coping with Loss

Imagine: A Center for Coping with Loss


2018 Grant Finalists

Community FoodBank of NJ: The Period Initiative

Community FoodBank of NJ: The Period Initiative

NJ Tree Foundation

NJ Tree Foundation

Imagine: A Center for Coping with Loss

Imagine: A Center for Coping with Loss


2017 Grant Finalists

Prevent Child Abuse NJ

Prevent Child Abuse NJ

Music and the Brain

Music and the Brain

Spectrum 360

Spectrum 360