The Northern New Jersey Community Foundation’s (NNJCF) Andrea Tilbian Halejian Memorial Fund announces the award of two grants to nonprofits for the culinary arts and housing. The NNJCF donor advised fund donated $5,000 to Careers Through Culinary Arts Program in New York City and $12,000 to LA Family Housing in North Hollywood, California.
The Fund remembers Wyckoff, New Jersey resident Andrea Tilbian Halejian and contributes to qualified charitable organizations she supported. The grant to Careers Through Culinary Arts supports the LA Redbird BIPOC scholarship. Careers Through Culinary Arts Program (C-CAP), a workforce development nonprofit, provides underserved teens with a pathway to success. They accomplish this through culinary, job and life skills activities. Furthermore, they service 20,000 middle-and-high school students in seven regions across the United States. These include New York City, Newark, Philadelphia and Camden, Chicago, and Los Angeles. In addition, they cover Washington D.C./Maryland/Northern Virginia and Arizona, as well as seven Navajo reservation schools.
Grants awarded in memory of Andrea Tilbian Halejian support the culinary arts and housing.
The contribution to the LA Family Housing furthers the organization’s goal to help people transition out of homelessness and poverty. They accomplish this through a continuum of housing enriched with supportive services. The nonprofit organization also uses evidence-based best practices to achieve their goals. Currently, they operate 26 properties of temporary, permanently affordable, and permanent supportive housing across Los Angeles.
NNJCF Philanthropic Services
For 23 years, the Northern New Jersey Community Foundation has served northern New Jersey. The NNJCF brings people and organizations together to address pressing issues and needs in the region. With a comprehensive menu of philanthropic opportunities, the NNJCF further provides donors with flexible, efficient, and tax-effective ways to ensure their charitable giving has maximum impact through various types of funds, tax-saving annuities, and trust options.
“The Northern New Jersey Community Foundation helps donors connect with issues they care about. The NNJCF also works to make investing in charitable interests more accessible. We also offer a lower entry point for donors to establish a fund and contribute to their community over time,” said Danielle De Laurentis, Associate Director, Northern New Jersey Community Foundation.
Founded in 1998, the Foundation focuses primarily on the arts, civic engagement, education, the environment, public health, and philanthropy. The NNJCF also works with local governments, school districts, businesses, non-profit organizations, and citizen groups. The Foundation’s partners identify and resolve regional problems and opportunities. They also talk and learn from each other and share ideas, best practices, services, and resources.
