New Jersey Recovery Fund to Aid in Sandy Recovery
Grants and low to no-interest loans will benefit non-profits aiding Hurricane Sandy recovery.
It's been a roller coaster of a year for Marlboro and Colts Neck residents, considering the last few months. 2012 started slowly, but ended with a devastating hurricane, a nor'easter, a historic presidential election and a tragic elementary school shooting in Connecticut.
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The Community Foundation of New Jersey recently announced a funding resource aimed at supporting the needs of the state’s communities and non-profit organizations leading in recovery following Hurricane Sandy.
Called the New Jersey Recovery Fund, the foundation and its more than $5 million in pledged support from national and regional organizations recently revealed the fund’s application guidelines and its focus on aiding forward-thinking groups and communities throughout the state.
The fund focuses on five areas, according to NJ News Commons, a Montclair State University communication project, including public information and community engagement, a focus on policy in support of resiliency and sustainability, innovative community and regional planning projects, environmental protection and restoration, and community driven and participatory arts projects.
Non-profit organizations looking to apply are encouraged to partner with residence, business owners, and towns to generate a wide array of ideas, which they are then invited to submit for consideration.
The fund is not designed to provide disaster relief, but to develop ideas and projects, according to the report, that focus on innovation, collaboration, resiliency and sustainability following Sandy.
According to the Community Foundation, eligible applicants must be based in New Jersey or partner with a New Jersey non-profit organization or municipality.
For more information, or to submit an application, visit the dedicated New Jersey Recovery Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation website at http://www.grdodge.org/about-us/new-jersey-recovery-fund.
Hank Kerchef
5:05 am on Wednesday, February 6, 2013
I have a Sandy Disaster fund with no money,,im still waiting for for donations,,, my fund will help home owners directly,,, there will be no mystery of who gets some money for help. so is there any big shots that can give or do they need the big publicity light. contact realistfr61@aol.com
Big Fat Cat
7:58 am on Wednesday, February 6, 2013
Who should I send the money to? Who will be getting it?
Joe ED P
9:10 am on Wednesday, February 6, 2013
"NOT I" said the tax paying worker!!!!
foggyworld
1:34 pm on Wednesday, February 6, 2013
Another fund where nothing goes to the folks who have been displaced.
S. Bar
3:37 pm on Wednesday, February 6, 2013
For all you renters (many who didn't even pay rent but crash at their family's beach house) who are now taking money from FEMA so you can rent somewhere else (many who are just crashing at their families year-round home) shame on you. Even if your rental was destroyed you don't pay rent there now so why can't you use that money to rent somewhere else. Homeowner NEED this money so while you pocket it fraudulently, think about that. Lying to FEMA is a Federal crime.
proud
6:34 pm on Wednesday, February 6, 2013
@S. Bar, is it a federal crime if FEMA lies to you? It should be.
proud
6:32 pm on Wednesday, February 6, 2013
The monies raised should be donated to the judiciary so they can assign a phalanx of judges to hear tax appeal cases. There is going to be a boatload of them, as there should be.
MrDoughnut
6:10 pm on Friday, May 17, 2013
It's May now do you see any change yet?