Felix Rouse, Executive Director
www.bgcn.org

The Schumann Fund provided operating support to the Clubs.

Newark, NJ
Dorothy Knauer, Executive Director
www.cacofnj.org

The Schumann Fund provided operating support to the agency’s programs for young children.    

Newark, NJ
Muña Bosch, Executive Director
www.elclubdelbarrio.org

The Schumann Fund for New Jersey granted operating support for the programs for women and children that this neighborhood organization provides as part of its comprehensive social services to a primarily Latino community.

Newark, NJ
Katherine Burns, Executive Director
www.casaessex.org

The Essex County Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) trains adult volunteers to advocate for foster children who are moving toward adoption.  The Schumann Fund support helped CASA expand its efforts to ensure that “boarder babies” are placed in safe and permanent homes.

Newark, NJ
Joseph Della Fave, Executive Director
www.ironboundcc.org

Since 1977, the Schumann Fund provided operating support to this multi-service community-based organization.  The Corporation’s first program, founded in 1969, was the organization’s first program.

Newark, NJ
Michaela Nolan, Jr., Executive Director
www.kidscorporation.org

The Schumann Fund for New Jersey provided support for Kids Corporation’s Education Service, which provides resources and materials to after-school and summer programs in Newark.

Newark, NJ
Raymond Ocasio, Executive Director
www.lacasanwk.org

Founded in 1972, La Casa de Don Pedro has grown from a storefront youth program to the largest Hispanic-serving community-based organization in New Jersey.  It administers more than 20 social service and educational programs. The Schumann Fund provided operating support. 

Newark, NJ
Marnie McKoy, Principal
www.linkschool.org

Since 1969, the Link Community School’s small classes, devoted teachers, high expectations, partnerships with parents, and extensive afterschool and summer programs have given middle school students the educational and support they need to succeed.  Ninety-percent of Link’s graduates complete high school, many of them in the region’s most selective schools.  The Schumann Fund provided operating funds.

Lawrenceville, NJ
Marcia Harmon, Project Coordinator

The New Jersey AIDS Partnership is a collaborative effort of private funders, public health officials and service providers that works to address the needs of children orphaned by AIDS. The Schumann Fund grant helped support the Partnership’s work in Essex County.

Newark, NJ
Sheila Baynes, Executive Director
www.nesfnj.org

Newark Emergency Services for Families provides comprehensive emergency services to families in crisis. Many of NESF’s clients are working, but earning too little to weather the crises that come with poverty - evictions, high utility costs, loss of a job, sudden illness. The Schumann Fund provided operating support.

Newark, NJ
Stephen Adubato, Sr., Executive Director

Since 1970, the North Ward Center has been an anchor in a neighborhood undergoing dramatic demographic and social change.  It provides employment training to senior citizens, adult day care, early childhood care and education, and a charter school.  The Schumann Fund grant supported an evaluation of the North Ward Center’s preschool program.

Paramus, NJ
Ilise Zimmerman, Executive Director

Although Irvington has the second highest black infant mortality rate in the state, it lacks the organizational infrastructure to provide vital health and social services to children and families.  To fill this gap, the Northern New Jersey Maternal Child Health Consortium’s Irvington Family Development Center provides parenting classes, literacy training, professional development for child care workers, and health screening for children.  The Schumann Fund helped meet matching requirements for state support.

Newark, NJ
Mary Bennett, Executive Director

The Schumann Fund grant supported counseling for pre-kindergarten to third grade children in two Project GRAD elementary schools, to help the children modify their disruptive behavior, and to help teachers develop a range of classroom management skills. 

Newark, NJ
Charles Kelley, Area Coordinator
www.newjerseysalvationarmy.org

In New Jersey, 5.5% of all children under age 18 are living with relatives other than their parents - most of them grandparents.  Since 1996, the Salvation Army’s Grandfamilies Program has provided peer support, counseling and advocacy to and on behalf of these grandparents.  Funding comes from community and private philanthropies, including the Schumann Fund for New Jersey.

Newark, NJ
Robert M. Farley, Executive Director

Since 1972, UVSO has provided social services to the Vailsburg neighborhood, helped to develop new housing and supported community organizing to increase civic participation.  The Schumann Fund provided support for UVSO’s early childhood programs.

Newark, NJ
Patricia Connors, Executive Director

Youth Development Clinic provides an array of services for a clientele that would otherwise not have access to mental health services:  child study evaluations, individual and group counseling, peer counseling and an early intervention program in partnership with Project GRAD-Newark.  The Schumann Fund provided operating support.