Community Foundation of New Jersey

2008 Morris Legacy Fund Grants

Families who contribute to or establish Legacy Funds can specify an issue, cause or hometown that they would like to have their charitable legacy impact. The Community Foundation can then respond quickly and nimbly to ever-changing community needs through grants designed around the spirit of the donor’s wishes.

• Family Service of Morris County. Grants for staffing, services, and assistive devices of the “Friends of the Blind,” a program that matches volunteers with the visually impaired. Funding made possible by the George & Yvonne Alkemade Fund.
• Morristown Neighborhood House. Funded start-up costs for a new Workers Center for immigrants who are seeking short-term employment. Funding made possible by the Svetlana Stalin Fund.
• Prevent Blindness Tri-State. Grant extends our obesity-prevention Healthy Lifestyles Initiative to support a vision screening program for twenty-three Morris County pre-schools. Funding made possible by George & Yvonne Alkemade Fund.

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