Impact100 Essex
Grant Recipients
2023-2024
Impact Grant Recipient: Newark Emergency Services for Families
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
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.
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.
2019
Grant Recipient: MEND
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.
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.
2017
Grant Recipient: Covenant House
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
Montclair State University Foundation
North Jersey Community Research Initiative
2019 Grant Finalists
Volunteer Lawyers for Justice
Hetrick-Martin Institute: NJ
Imagine: A Center for Coping with Loss
2018 Grant Finalists
Community FoodBank of NJ: The Period Initiative
NJ Tree Foundation
Imagine: A Center for Coping with Loss
2017 Grant Finalists
