| 2008 Grant Awards |
| Big Brothers Big Sisters of Mercer County |
$15,000 |
| This grant will support Big Brothers Big Sisters of Mercer’s ongoing efforts to increase the quantity and quality of their Big/Little matches and continue to seek out and secure new corporate partnerships. |
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| Center for Educational Advancement |
$15,000 |
| This operating grant will provide continuing support to this organization which provides jobs, education, job readiness, and support for people with disabilities. |
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| Community Hope, Inc. |
$10,000 |
| This grant supports the opening of the new wing of a residential facility which has the capacity to serve 95 former servicemen and women and provide living quarters for another 25 veterans. |
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| Family and Children's Services of Central NJ, Inc. |
$15,000 |
| The Family Child Home Program, Embracing Families project is a 0-3 initiative aimed at increasing reading and language skills in non-English speaking households. This organization works with families in their homes on a weekly basis over a 12-month period. |
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| Family Guidance Center Corporation |
$10,000 |
| This operating grant will help to fund the Children’s Day Treatment Program. This program has an enrollment of approximately 80 children and there is a waiting list for services. Family Guidance is seeking to maintain current service levels and provide transportation services for all children who attend the program. |
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| George Street Playhouse |
$10,000 |
| This grant will support education and outreach programs at the theatre. These programs help to bring theatre arts into less-advantaged school districts as well as providing opportunities for the children to see works at the theatre. |
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| Historic Morven, Inc. |
$10,000 |
| This grant will support Morven’s Exhibition, “Princeton 1783. The Nation’s Capital”. This is a collaborative project involving cultural, academic and historic preservation organizations across the state. |
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| HiTops, Inc. |
$10,000 |
| This organization provides wellness care and health education for teens in the greater Princeton area. HiTops offers peer-based education, a sliding fee clinic, and outreach for the community's growing Latina population. A grant of $10,000 will help to educate young Latina girls on reproductive and preventive healthcare, focusing on HIV education, pregnancy prevention, and other health issues that affect young Latinas disproportionately and to create a peer support system. |
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| HomeFront, Inc. |
$20,000 |
| This operating grant will help HomeFront, Inc. to maintain its infrastructure while it establishes critical ancillary services to existing programs, or initiate new programs, while working to secure permanent funding for these areas. |
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| McCarter Theatre |
$20,000 |
| This operating grant will help to fund programs at this regional theatre company based in Mercer County. |
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| Midland School |
$11,000 |
| This grant will help to upgrade the computer lab at the school which serves individuals with disabilities from elementary age into adulthood. |
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| New Jersey Conservation Foundation |
$20,000 |
| This grant supports a statewide easement stewardship and defense initiative which will help with the monitoring of conservation easements across the state. |
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| New Jersey Future |
$15,000 |
| This grant is given to support continued efforts to reduce sprawl and encourage smart growth on the ground in New Jersey by developing more practical means to implement the vision of the State Plan. |
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| Pinelands Preservation Alliance |
$10,000 |
| This operating grant will help to support two vitally important regional conservation issues: stewardship of conserved areas and protection of Pine Barrens water quality. |
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| Princeton Public Library |
$5,000 |
| Project support for the Latino Initiatives project will help to provide increasing literacy programming for Princeton’s growing Latino community. |
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| Princeton Symphony Orchestra |
$5,000 |
| Operating support is continued for this Princeton performing arts organization which, in addition to its regular concert series, provides free concerts for students attending area elementary schools. |
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| Rescue Mission of Trenton |
$10,000 |
| The E-initiative Program provides work training and experience to many of the program's homeless men and women. This program is a part of the mission's store which rehabs and resells donated items to support its programs. |
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| Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital Hamilton |
$15,000 |
| This hospital-based program will concentrate on reaching the Trenton community with preventative care and education regarding childhood obesity. Middle-school girls are the focus of this current effort. |
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| Trenton Education Dance Institute |
$20,000 |
| This grant will help to sustain TEDI's core program, Creative Classrooms, at its two newest schools, Caroll Robbins and Woodrow Wilson and its expanded programming for parent involvement launched during 2007. |
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| Trinity Counseling Service |
$30,000 |
| The Childhood Intervention Initiative is a collaborative effort of Trinity Counseling Service, Princeton Nursery school and Princeton Regional Schools to identify at-risk children as they transition through the public school system. The purpose of the program is to help children to reach their fullest potential in a safe and nurturing environment. |
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| Two River Theatre Company |
$10,000 |
| This operating grant will support the 732 project, an oral history project focusing on individuals from all walks of life who live and work in the 732 area code. The resulting artistic collaboration will be viewed by an audience consisting of the participants and the greater community in an attempt to stimulate dialogue and bring embedded social issues to the surface of conversation. |
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| Upper Raritan Watershed Association |
$20,000 |
| This grant supports a partnership project focusing on integrated invasive plant species management. The project represents the State’s first comprehensive effort toward invasive species management using a methodology of early detection/rapid response, coupled with strategic management planning and public outreach in the Hopewell Valley and Upper Raritan Watershed regions. |
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| Visiting Nurse Association of Mercer County |
$25,000 |
| The Electronic Data Warehouse is a quality improvement tool which will allow for more comprehensive clinical data analysis. |
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2007 Grant Awards |
| Artistic Realization Technologies |
$20,000 |
| A.R.T. has been invited to run its art studio program for children with severe multiple physical and/or neurological challenges within the Mercer County Special Services District two days per week. This Bunbury Company grant will help to fund the expansion of this very successful program. |
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| Aslan Youth Ministries |
$10,000 |
| This operating grant will help Aslan to continue to expand their programs for at-risk youth in the Red Bank and Asbury Park regions of New Jersey through the hiring of an Executive Program Director. |
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| Boys and Girls Club of Trenton & Mercer County |
$25,000 |
| This program provides a major outlet for Trenton middle school and high school youth. An operating grant will help in upgrading this organization's central location and increase opportunities in satellite sites throughout the Trenton public school system. |
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| Camden Area Health Education Center |
$20,000 |
| The "Fresh in the City" program is the only fresh produce outlet available to residents and workers in the city of Camden. This important program also provides free health screenings, wellness programs and opportunities to meet with representatives of County and State agencies from various housing and social service programs. |
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| Center for Educational Advancement |
$20,000 |
| This grant will provide general operating support to this organization which provides education, job training and ongoing support for young adults with disabilities. |
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| Center for Family Services, Inc. |
$8,000 |
| The Center for Family Services TAG program matches grandparents to kids in need of stable, adult relationships. This grant will provide funding for a support group for grandparents raising grandchildren who reside in Camden City and Camden County, New Jersey. |
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| Community Action Service Center, Inc. |
$15,000 |
| The Summer Academic Enrichment program is designed to promote children's future success in life through summer academic support and social skills development. A grant of $15,000 will help to fund staff salaries for this important program. |
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| Community Arts Partnership at the Peddie School |
$10,000 |
| This operating grant will support this arts organization providing cultural programs to a community largely comprised of seniors and a growing immigrant population. |
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| Community Hope, Inc. |
$10,000 |
| This Bunbury grant will help to provide wooden wardrobes for veterans in this housing program serving the State of New Jersey. |
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| Crawford House, Inc. |
$15,000 |
| This 22-bed facility for women transitioning from substance abuse provides support for re-entry into the community as well as employment opportunities. This operating grant will help to continue the work of this successful organization. |
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| Crossroads of the American Revolution Association |
$10,000 |
| This organization seeks to connect the myriad of dots that make New Jersey a significant, yet undervalued contributor to the early heritage of our country. With help from the National Trust, it is utilizing successful models from Virginia and Massachusetts to develop links between key historic battle sites. |
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| Crisis Ministry of Princeton and Trenton |
$10,000 |
| General operating support will aid in providing direct support to families struggling to meet basic monthly needs like rent. |
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| Delaware & Raritan Greenway |
$100,000 |
| This three-year grant will help to preserve the St. Michael's property which borders Hopewell Borough in Mercer County. The preservation of this property will complete a green belt around the town of Hopewell, linking with three other previously preserved parcels of land. |
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| Elijah's Promise |
$11,000 |
| This traditional soup kitchen located in New Brunswick transformed its after-hours downtime into a culinary arts school for its clients providing a stable source of employment for the food industry along the Route One corridor. The current grant will support the expansion of the culinary school to include evening classes. |
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| Family & Children's Services of Central NJ, Inc. |
$10,000 |
| The Family Child Home Program is an intensive, two-year, home-based prevention program for families with toddlers aged 18-48 months who are challenged by low incomes, limited education and social isolation whose parents wish to break the cycle of poverty by providing their children with the advantages of education. This grant will help to continue funding this program located in the eastern part of our service area. |
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| Family and Community Services of Somerset County |
$6,000 |
| This grant will provide additional mental health and family counseling services to Hispanic/Latino children, adolescents, adults and families. |
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| Foodbank of South Jersey |
$20,000 |
| Operating support will help to continue the work of one of the primary food banks in our region. |
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| Friends of the New Jersey State Museum |
$25,000 |
| This grant will support the centerpiece reopening art exhibition "Jersey Folk: Communities, Identity and Traditional Arts".This project, developed in collaboration with the Folk Arts Program of the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, will integrate history and folk culture to explore New Jersey's rich cultural heritage. |
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| Haddonfield Symphony |
$10,000 |
| An operating grant to this organization will help to support their Music Matters program with an emphasis on increasing programs in the City of Camden. |
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| Hands on Helpers |
$1,000 |
| This grant will help with the maintenance of a database that provides individuals with information about a broad array of volunteer opportunities. |
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| HomeSharing Program of Somerset County |
$5,000 |
| This organization uses an innovative "shared" approach to homelessness by pairing housing resources to those in need. Funding from Bunbury will help to prevent homelessness in Somerset and Hunterdon counties and improve services to the elderly. |
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| Housing and Community Development Network of NJ |
$16,000 |
| Funding from Bunbury will support existing community-based education and advocacy networks in Mercer, Burlington, Camden, Middlesex, Monmouth, Hunterdon and Somerset Counties. |
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| Isles |
$30,000 |
| This operating grant will help to support Isles in addressing the needs of economically disadvantaged youth and their families through core programs focusing on financial self-reliance, job corps training for teens, environmental health initiatives, real estate development and community organizing. |
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| Life Ties, Inc. |
$10,000 |
| This grant will provide operating support to Life Ties to continue the services of a grant writer and expand the use of a psychotherapist for long term intensive counseling for adolescents. |
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| Literacy Volunteers of America in Mercer County |
$10,000 |
| This organization is a vital source of trainers who work at ancillary ESL programs across Mercer County. The current grant will provide six continuing education workshops for the tutors, teachers and volunteers that make this organization effective. |
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| Mercer Street Friends |
$20,000 |
| The effectiveness of this organization, which provides services to individuals in the Trenton area, will be greatly enhanced by the replacement of it's outdated and inefficient telephone system. |
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| Midland School |
$20,000 |
| This operating grant will help to fund the Midland Helping Hands Employment Training program which serves young adults with disabilities. |
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| Mobile Meals of Trenton/Ewing |
$10,000 |
| The Subsidized Meal Program supplies meals-on-wheels and related services to housebound individuals who cannot afford the cost of meals. |
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| Mount Carmel Guild of Trenton, NJ |
$5,000 |
| This organization strives to enhance the lives of persons in need living in the Trenton area. A grant of $5,000 will help to provide direct services particularly in the area of home nursing care to low-wealth, elderly individuals in the local community. |
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| NAMI-Mercer, New Jersey |
$7,000 |
| The Helpline of NAMI-Mercer is an important regional service for families dealing with mental illness. The helpline provides information, referrals, assurance and support to families members, particularly those with affected children and youth. |
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| Network for Family Life Education |
$5,000 |
| Funding for the Training Institute in Sexual Health Education will provide specialized training to teachers and health educators in New Jersey. |
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| New Jersey Conservation Foundation |
$25,000 |
| The New Jersey Conservation Foundation provides technical assistance and partnership with smaller land trusts across the state and has taken the lead on major preservation initiatives in the Pinelands and the Highlands. This operating grant will help NJCF to continue their efforts. |
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| New Jersey Future |
$20,000 |
| This operating grant will support the efforts of this 20 year-old organization to strengthen the endorsement process under the State Plan to connect state goals for open space preservation and center-based development with local master plans and zoning. |
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| Open Space Institute |
$20,000 |
| This operating grant will support the Institute's work on open space initiatives in New Jersey. |
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| Passage Theatre Company |
$20,000 |
| The State Street Project is Passage Theatre's arts mentoring program for kids aged 8-18 in Trenton, New Jersey. This innovative arts program hopes to enrich and expand the lives of Trenton youth by utilizing a variety of artistic outlets in an after-school format. |
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| Planned Parenthood Association of the Mercer Area |
$100,000 |
| This three-year operating grant will help this organization to serve low-income clients through the Health Care Fund which will be used to subsidize health center operations. |
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| Princeton Symphony Orchestra |
$10,000 |
| The Princeton Symphony Orchestra serves as a cultural resource to the greater Princeton community. In addition to its Sunday concert series this organization's work reflects a strong commitment to the education of children especially those from urban schools. This grant will support general operating expenses for the 2006-2007 season. |
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| Rescue Mission of Trenton |
$10,000 |
| The E-Initiative program provides food, shelter and a resourceful way to earn money to the underserved male population of Trenton and Mercer County. |
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| Roxey Ballet |
$10,000 |
| General operating support for this organization will help Roxey Ballet to continue to provide educational opportunities for cultural growth to youth and families through local performance as well as educational initiatives. |
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| South Branch Watershed Association |
$10,000 |
| The Waterways Stewardship Project is a school-based water monitoring program that operates with the goal of raising awareness and providing important information on the impacts of non-point source pollution. |
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| Stony Brook-Millstone Watershed Association |
$40,000 |
| This two-year grant will help to fund environmental education initiatives in seven area schools. |
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| Teach for America - New Jersey |
$17,000 |
| This grant will support the Early Childhood Pilot Initiative by helping to bring eight of America's top college graduates to serve as early childhood teachers in Camden for the 2007-2008 school year. |
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| Trenton Children's Chorus |
$20,000 |
| Operating support for this after-school choir for children in Trenton, New Jersey, will help to continue current programming during an important transition to a new, professional artistic director. |
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| Trenton Community Music School |
$7,500 |
| A general operating grant will help the school to continue to provide high quality music education to individuals regardless of age, experience or income. |
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| Trenton Education Dance Institute |
$20,000 |
| General operating support for this organization will help to sustain and expand it's core program, creative classrooms, which provides all 5th grade students at two elementary schools with weekly instruction throughout the school year. |
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| Tuckerton Seaport |
$10,000 |
| "Catch the Spirit of the Bay" is a boat building program designed to enrich the lives of underserved and disadvantaged children and their families in this area of southern New Jersey. |
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| Union Industrial Home for Children |
$15,000 |
| This program will focus on treating situational depression in fathers who are unemployed, underemployed or who are non-custodial or custodial fathers, including those recently released from prison. The goal of this program is to strengthen families and communities by addressing the needs of some of its most vulnerable, at-risk citizens. |
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