Grants

Category Essex County

2020 $235,000

CASA for Children of Essex County

Amount
$20,000
Category
Essex County

Support for “Fostering Futures CASA’s specialized program addressing the  special  needs of children “aging out” of foster care

Family Promise of Essex County

Amount
$25,000
Category
Essex County

Case management services for Family Promise of Essex client families

Imagine

Amount
$20,000
Category
Essex County

Support for “Imagine Newark- peer grief support in Newark

Independence

Amount
$25,000
Category
Essex County

Operating support

Legal Service of New Jersey

Amount
$30,000
Category
Essex County

Support for a pilot “Parent Ally Program” augmenting LASNJ’s Essex County Family Representation Program

Main Street Counseling Center

Amount
$20,000
Category
Essex County

Counseling for children and their families in urban Essex County

Meeting Essential Needs With Dignity

Amount
$20,000
Category
Essex County

Operating support for M.E.N.D.’s Healthy Pantries ,Healthy Patrons program

Montclair Neighborhood Development Corporation

Amount
$10,000
Category
Essex County

Support for emergency needs in the Greater Montclair area

St. Bemedict’s Preparatory School

Amount
$30,000
Category
Essex County

Support for St. Benedict’s Prep Steven M. Grossman Student Counseling Center

Succeed2gether, Inc.

Amount
$10,000
Category
Essex County

Operating support for afterschool amd summer enrichment for economically challenged. academically struggling students in the Greater Montclair area

Unified Vailsburg Services Organization

Amount
$25,000
Category
Essex County

Operating suport

2019 $135,000

Greater Newark Fresh Air Fund

Amount
$10,000
Category
Essex County

To provide camp scholarships for Newark children

Imagine: A Center for Coping With Loss

Amount
$10,000
Category
Essex County

Support for a second “Night of Support” for Imagine Newark a trauma -imformed peer grief support program for children and families coping with loss in Newark and surrounding areas

Independence: A Family of Services

Amount
$25,000
Category
Essex County

Operating support

Ironbound Community Corporation

Amount
$20,000
Category
Essex County

Operating support

Legal Service of New Jersey

Amount
$30,000
Category
Essex County

Suppport for a pilot “Parent Ally Program” augmenting – Family Representation Project

St. Bemedict’s Preparatory School

Amount
$30,000
Category
Essex County

Support for St. Benedic’s Prep Steven M. Grossman Counseling Center

Succeed2gether, Inc.

Amount
$10,000
Category
Essex County

Operating support for afterscool and summer enrichment for economicaly challenged, academially struggling students in the Greater Montclair area

2018 $147,500

CASA – for Children of Essex County

Amount
$15,000
Category
Essex County

Operating Support

Imagine, Center for Coping with Loss

Amount
$10,000
Category
Essex County

Support for a trauma-informed peer grief support program for youth coping with loss

Independence: A Family of Services

Amount
$25,000
Category
Essex County

Operating Support

Ironbound Community Corporation

Amount
$20,000
Category
Essex County

Operating Support

Life Camp

Amount
$10,000
Category
Essex County

Operating Support

My Brother’s Keeper Newark

Amount
$25,000
Category
Essex County

To work collaboratively with youth leadership organization in Newark

South Orange Performing Arts Center

Amount
$2,500
Category
Essex County

Support of training on implicit bias and microaggression for S. Orange & Maplewood Twsps

St Benedict’s Preparatory School

Amount
$30,000
Category
Essex County

Support St. Benedict’s Student Counseling Program

The Salvation Army

Amount
$10,000
Category
Essex County

Support for SA’s “Grandfamilies Program” of Essex County

2017 $120,000

Court Appointed Special Advocate for Children of Essex County

Contact Name
Karen Burns, Executive Director
Amount
$20,000
Category
Essex County
Location
Newark, NJ

For almost three decades, CASA for Children of Essex County has worked to promote the welfare of children who have been removed from their homes because of abuse, neglect, or abandonment. They train and supervise volunteers to advocate for the best interest of children in court to ensure that each child receives needed services and assistance while speeding them to a safe and permanent home. Schumann provides operating support.

Independence: A Family of Services

Contact Name
Margaret Woods, Executive Director
Amount
$25,000
Category
Essex County
Location
Newark, NJ

Independence: A Family of Services has served children and families in urban Essex County for more than 45 years – embodying a philosophy of respect for the strength and voice of the community it serves. The Schumann Fund provides operating support.

Ironbound Community Corporation

Contact Name
Joseph Della Fave, Executive Director
Amount
$20,000
Category
Essex County
Location
Newark, NJ

The Schumann Fund provides operating support to this multi-services agency that

Life Camp

Contact Name
Kathleen Cree, Executive Director
Amount
$10,000
Category
Essex County
Location
Pottersville, NJ

Each year Life Camp offers nearly 700 children from Urban Essex County a variety of summer recreational, academic, and character-building activities at its rural campus in Pottersville NJ. The Schumann Fund provides operating support.

Meeting Essential Needs with Dignity

Contact Name
Sharon Reilly-Tobin, M.E.N.D., Coordinator
Director, Catholic Charities Emergency Food Network Program
Amount
$10,000
Category
Essex County
Location
East Orange, NJ

Since 1980 MEND has provided food to 16 pantries in their communities. The Schumann grant provides support for the agency’s “Health Pantries, Healthy Patrons” program to purchase and transport healthier food options to its member food pantries.

St. Benedict’s Preparatory School

Contact Name
Rev. Edwin D. Leahy, Principal
Amount
$25,000
Category
Essex County
Location
Newark, NJ

St. Benedict’s Preparatory School is a beacon of academic and social success in the City of Newark. The Schumann grant supports this secondary school’s groundbreaking student counseling program.

The Salvation Army

Contact Name
Brenda Beavers, State Director of Human Services
Amount
$10,000
Category
Essex County
Location
Newark, NJ

The Schumann Fund supports The Salvation Army’s “Grandfamilies Program,” that offers support and guidance to grandparents and other kinship caregivers providing primary care to children.

2016 $90,000

Court Appointed Special Advocate for Children of Essex County

Contact Name
Karen Burns, Executive Director
Amount
$15,000
Category
Essex County
Year
2016
Location
Newark, NJ

Now in its 30th year, CASA for Children of Essex County ,works to promote the welfare of children who have been removed from their homes because of abuse, neglect, or abandonment. They train and supervise volunteers to advocate for the best interest of children in court to ensure that each child receives needed services and assistance while speeding them to a safe and permanent home. Schumann supports CASA’s Center of Advocate Development.

Independence: A Family of Services

Contact Name
Margaret Woods, Executive Director
Amount
$10,000
Category
Essex County
Year
2016
Location
Newark, NJ

The Schumann Fund supports Independence: A Family of Services’ programs for disconnected youth. Its 45 year policy of “no reject, no eject” is a hallmark of their services.

Meeting Emergency Needs With Dignity M.E.N.D.

Fiscal Agent
Catholic Charities Emergency Food Network
Contact Name
Sharon Reilly-Tobin, MEND Coordinator
Amount
$10,000
Category
Essex County
Year
2016
Location
East Orange, NJ

M.E.N.D. is a network of seventeen food pantries serving Essex County. Their “Healthy Pantries Healthy Patrons” program purchases and transports healthy food options to its member pantries. The Schumann Fund is providing a one-time grant to enable M.E.N.D. to rent transportation and hire a part-time driver to deliver fresh food to its members for 16 weeks.

The Salvation Army

Contact Name
Brenda Beavers, State Director of Human Services
Amount
$10,000
Category
Essex County
Year
2016
Location
Newark, NJ

More than 180,000 New Jersey children are living in grandparent headed households. The Schumann Fund supports The Salvation Army’s “Grandfamilies Program,” that offers support and guidance to grandparents and other kinship caregivers providing primary care to children.

Unified Vailsburg Services Organization

Contact Name
Robert M. Farley, Executive Director
Amount
$20,000
Category
Essex County
Year
2016
Location
Newark, NJ

This multi-service organization is a hub of family, child, and neighborhood services in a diverse, largely working-class neighborhood in Newark’s West Ward. The Schumann Fund provides operating support.

Youth Development Clinic

Contact Name
Dr. Patricia Connors, Executive Director
Amount
$25,000
Category
Essex County
Year
2016
Location
Newark, NJ

The Youth Development Clinic’s highly skilled and diverse group of mental health practitioners offer high quality behavioral health services to families and children in neighborhoods where families live and children attend school. The Schumann Fund provides operating support.

2015 $320,000

Community Foundation of New Jersey
Newark Celebration 350

Contact Name
Junius Williams, Chair (Newark Celebration)
Amount
$10,000
Category
Essex County
Year
2015
Location
Newark, NJ

Newark Celebration 350 is a year-long celebration to mark the City of Newark’s 350th anniversary. The Schumann Fund grant supports the educational activities that will be part of the events.

Court Appointed Special Advocate for Children of Essex County

Contact Name
Karen Burns, Executive Director
Amount
$30,000
Category
Essex County
Year
2015
Location
Newark, NJ

For almost three decades, CASA for Children of Essex County has worked to promote the welfare of children who have been removed from their homes because of abuse, neglect, or abandonment. They train and supervise volunteers to advocate for the best interest of children in court to ensure that each child receives needed services and assistance while speeding them to a safe and permanent home. Schumann supports CASA’s advocacy program for Essex County children aged 0-8.

Independence: A Family of Services

Contact Name
Margaret Woods, Executive Director
Amount
$30,000
Category
Essex County
Year
2015
Location
Newark, NJ

The Schumann Fund supports Independence: A Family of Services’ programs at the East Orange Family Success Center that has become a centralized hub of information, referrals, counseling, education and family activities for an underserved community.

Kids Corporation

Contact Name
Michaela Nolan, Executive Director
Amount
$20,000
Category
Essex County
Year
2015
Location
Newark, NJ

The Schumann grant supports Kids Corporation’s Educational Service that provides curricular and material resources to after school and summer programs in community-based organizations in Newark.

La Casa de Don Pedro

Contact Name
Raymond Ocasio, Executive Director
Amount
$30,000
Category
Essex County
Year
2015
Location
Newark, NJ

La Casa de Don Pedro is one of New Jersey’s oldest and largest Hispanic-serving organizations, offering preschool, afterschool enrichment, job training, leadership development and community building activities across the City of Newark. Our grant provides operating support.

Newark Community Economic Development Corporation
Read and Believe

Contact Name
Lauren Wells, Chief Education Advisor
Amount
$25,000
Category
Essex County
Year
2015
Location
Newark, NJ

Newark’s mayor Ras Baraka has embarked on a city-wide literacy campaign that envisions the city embracing literacy as a communal cause and culture for city residents of all ages. The Schumann grant supports a literacy training institute for providers of out-of-school time programs to engage youth and their families in literacy-based activities.

Newark Emergency Services for Families

Contact Name
Tonya Bryan
Amount
$20,000
Category
Essex County
Year
2015
Location
Newark, NJ

This organization’s mission is “to stabilize families and individuals in crisis especially the working poor, homeless, and those in financial need and provide them with financial support and life skills training to live on their own.” Last year, NESF served more than 4,000 individuals and families. The Schumann grant provides operating support.

Partnership for Maternal and Child Health of Northern New Jersey

Contact Name
Ilise Zimmerman, Executive Director
Amount
$25,000
Category
Essex County
Year
2015
Location
Newark, NJ

The Schumann grant provides support to the Partnership’s Irvington Family Development Center, a Family Success Center that has become Irvington’s one-stop resource center for health, education, and social supports for children and families.

Pre-K Our Way

Contact Name
Brian Maher, Chair
Amount
$25,000
Category
Essex County
Year
2015
Location
Florham Park, NJ

The Schumann Fund supports Pre-K Our Way’s community engagement campaign to expand New Jersey’s high quality preschool program to all children who are eligible.

Rutgers University School of Criminal Justice
Newark Violence Reduction Initiative

Contact Name
Ronald Lyman, Director (NVRI)
Amount
$25,000
Category
Essex County
Year
2015
Location
Newark, NJ

The Newark Violence Reduction Initiative focuses on the small number of lawbreakers responsible for most of the City of Newark’s violent crimes. A groundbreaking collaborative of local, state, and federal law enforcement, county and federal prosecutors has joined forces with community leaders, social service providers, and city officials to address local drug markets and street violence in the city. Schumann provides support for social services for high-risk individuals who agree to participate in the initiative.

The Salvation Army

Contact Name
Brenda Beavers, State Director of Human Services
Amount
$20,000
Category
Essex County
Year
2015
Location
Newark, NJ

More than 180,000 New Jersey children are living in grandparent headed households. The Schumann Fund supports The Salvation Army’s “Grandfamilies Program,” that offers support and guidance to grandparents and other kinship caregivers providing primary care to children.

Unified Vailsburg Services Organization

Contact Name
Robert M. Farley, Executive Director
Amount
$30,000
Category
Essex County
Year
2015
Location
Newark, NJ

This multi-service organization is a hub of family, child, and neighborhood services in a diverse, largely working-class neighborhood in Newark’s West Ward. The Schumann Fund provides operating support.

Youth Development Clinic

Contact Name
Dr. Patricia Connors, Executive Director
Amount
$30,000
Category
Essex County
Year
2015
Location
Newark, NJ

The Youth Development Clinic’s diverse group of mental health practitioners offer high quality behavioral health services to families and children to neighborhoods where families live and children attend school. The Schumann Fund provides operating support.

2014 $215,000

Building Responsible Intelligent Creative Kids (BRICK) South Ward Children’s Alliance

Amount
$25,000
Category
Essex County
Year
2014
Location
Newark, NJ

Schumann’s grant supports B.R.I.C.K’s efforts to establish the South Ward Children’s Alliance, providing start-up funding for this coalition of community organizations, charter and district schools. The Alliance will be a hub of high-quality social services for children and families in Newark’s South Ward.

Kids Corporation

Contact Name
Michaela Murray-Nolan, Executive Director
Amount
$20,000
Category
Essex County
Year
2014
Location
Newark, NJ

Kids Corporation’s Educational Service provides academic and material resources to afterschool and summer programs in community-based programs in Newark. The Schumann grant supports these efforts.

Rutgers University – School of Criminal Justice

Amount
$25,000
Category
Essex County
Year
2014
Location
Newark, NJ

The Schumann Fund grant to the Rutgers University School of Criminal Justice funds social support services for high-risk individuals who agree to participate in the Newark Violence Reduction Initiative – an innovative strategy designed to address drug markets and street violence in the city.

The North Ward Center

Contact Name
Adrienne Davis, Executive Director
Amount
$40,000
Category
Essex County
Year
2014
Location
Newark, NJ

This long-standing institution offers high-quality educational, recreation, and social services to the Newark community. Our grant provides operating support.

The Salvation Army – Newark Area Services

Amount
$20,000
Category
Essex County
Year
2014
Location
Newark, NJ

Schumann support goes to The Salvation Army’s Grand Family Success Center in Newark that offers social services and support to grandparents raising their grandchildren.

Unified Vailsburg Services Organization

Contact Name
Robert M. Farley, Executive Director
Amount
$30,000
Category
Essex County
Year
2014
Location
Newark, NJ

Unified Vailsburg Services Organization’s programs serve more than 1,000 Newark citizens from infants to senior citizens every day. Preschool, afterschool programs, senior services, housing development, and community organizing are among the myriad programs offered by this agency. The Schumann Fund provides operating support

Youth Development Clinic

Contact Name
Dr. Patricia Connors, Executive Director
Amount
$30,000
Category
Essex County
Year
2014
Location
Newark, NJ

The Youth Development Clinic offers high-quality behavioral health services to Essex County’s families and children. Using a skilled, diverse cadre of behavioral health specialists, YDC brings their services to neighborhoods where families live and where children attend school. The Schumann Fund provides operating support.

2013 $300,000

CASA for Children of Essex County

Contact Name
Karen Burns, Executive Director
Amount
$30,000
Category
Essex County
Year
2013
Location
Newark, NJ

For more than 25 years, Court Appointed Special Advocates of Essex County has worked to promote the welfare of children who have been removed from their homes because of abuse, neglect or abandonment. Our grant supports advocacy efforts on behalf of children aged 0-8.

Community Food Bank of New Jersey

Contact Name
Kathleen DiChiara, Executive Director
Amount
$25,000
Category
Essex County
Year
2013
Location
Hillside, NJ

The Schumann Fund supports the Community FoodBank of New Jersey’s BackPack Program that discreetly provides supplemental food to more than 4,000 children at risk of being hungry over weekends.

Independence: A Family of Services

Contact Name
Margaret Woods, Executive Director
Amount
$20,000
Category
Essex County
Year
2013
Location
Newark, NJ

Independence: A Family of Services encompasses a variety of community-based programs for children youth and families in urban Essex County. Our grant supports programs at their East Orange Family Success Center, a centralized hub of social, educational, and recreational services designed to enhance family functioning.

Kids Corporation

Contact Name
Michaela Murray-Nolan, Executive Director
Amount
$15,000
Category
Essex County
Year
2013
Location
Newark, NJ

A Schumann Fund grant to Kids Corporation supports their Educational Service that provides academic and material resources to afterschool and summer programs in community-based programs in Newark.

La Casa de Don Pedro

Contact Name
Raymond Ocasio, Executive Director
Amount
$30,000
Category
Essex County
Year
2013
Location
Newark, NJ

La Casa de Don Pedro is one of New Jersey’s largest and oldest Hispanic-serving organizations, offering more than 30 programs ranging from preschool to affordable housing development. Our grant provides operating support.

Newark Emergency Services for Families

Contact Name
Damyn Kelly, Executive Director
Amount
$25,000
Category
Essex County
Year
2013
Location
Newark, NJ

Newark Emergency Services for Families provides comprehensive emergency and social services to needy Essex County Services. The Schumann grant provides operating support.

The North Ward Center

Contact Name
Adrianne Davis, Executive Director
Amount
$50,000
Category
Essex County
Year
2013
Location
Newark, NJ

The Schumann Fund grant to The North Ward Center supports engineering, architect, and other pre-development costs for expansion of Robert Treat Academy to Newark’s Central Ward.

The Salvation Army

Contact Name
Major Joachim Calvo, Executive Director
Amount
$20,000
Category
Essex County
Year
2013
Location
Newark, NJ

The Schumann Fund supports the Salvation Army’s Grandfamilies Success Center, a center specifically dedicated to providing information, services and supports for kinship caregivers.

Unified Vailsburg Services Organization

Contact Name
Robert M. Farley, Executive Director
Amount
$30,000
Category
Essex County
Year
2013
Location
Newark, NJ

Unified Vailsburg Services Organization’s programs benefit more than 1,000 Newark citizens from infants to senior citizens every day. Preschool, afterschool programs, senior services, housing development, and community organizing are among the myriad programs offered by this agency. The Schumann Fund provides operating support.

Youth Development Clinic

Contact Name
Dr. Patricia Connors, Executive Director
Amount
$30,000
Category
Essex County
Year
2013
Location
Newark, NJ

The Youth Development Clinic offers high-quality behavioral health services to Essex County’s families and children. Using a highly skilled, diverse team of psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers and learning consultants, YDC brings their services to neighborhoods where families live and where children attend school. The Schumann Fund provides operating support.

2012 $245,000

Community Food Bank of New Jersey

Contact Name
Kathleen DiChiara, Executive Director
Amount
$25,000
Category
Essex County
Year
2012
Location
Hillside, NJ

The Schumann Fund grant to Community Food Bank of New Jersey supports its Kids Division which provides food, clothing, school supplies and books to children from low-income families.

Essex County Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA)

Contact Name
Karen Burns, Executive Director
Amount
$30,000
Category
Essex County
Year
2012
Location
Newark, NJ

Essex County Court Appointed Special Advocate helps Family Court judges in Essex County protect the welfare of the County’s foster children. The Schumann Fund supports Essex County CASA’s advocacy for children from birth to age eight.

Ironbound Community Corporation

Contact Name
Joseph Della Fave, Executive Director
Amount
$30,000
Category
Essex County
Year
2012
Location
Newark, NJ

Our grant to Ironbound Community Corporation provides operating support to this anchor institution in a largely working poor immigrant community in Newark.

La Casa de Don Pedro

Contact Name
Ray Ocasio, Executive Director
Amount
$30,000
Category
Essex County
Year
2012
Location
Newark, NJ

The Schumann Fund provided operating support to this 40-year-old multi-service community organization in Newark’s North Ward.

Newark Emergency Services for Families

Contact Name
Damyn Kelly, Executive Director
Amount
$25,000
Category
Essex County
Year
2012
Location
Newark, NJ

NESF offers comprehensive emergency services to families and individuals facing social, emotional, and financial crises. The Schumann Fund provides operating support.

Northern New Jersey Maternal Child Health Consortium

Contact Name
Ilise Zimmerman, Executive Director
Amount
$25,000
Category
Essex County
Year
2012
Location
Paramus, NJ

The Northern NJ Maternal Child Health Consortium founded the Irvington Family Development Center in 1998 as a resource center that offers high-quality educational, health and social supports to families. The Schumann Fund provides support for center operations.

The Salvation Army – Newark Area Services

Contact Name
Major Joachim Calvo, Director
Amount
$20,000
Category
Essex County
Year
2012
Location
Newark, NJ

Schumann support goes to The Salvation Army’s Grandfamily Success Center, a center to provide coordinated, comprehensive services to kinship caregivers in northern New Jersey.

Unified Vailsburg Services Organization

Contact Name
Robert M. Farley, Executive Director
Amount
$30,000
Category
Essex County
Year
2012
Location
Newark, NJ

The Schumann fund’s supports the community organization’s programs serving young children.

Youth Development Clinic

Contact Name
Dr. Patricia Connors, Executive Director
Amount
$30,000
Category
Essex County
Year
2012
Location
Newark, NJ

For more than fifty years, Youth Development Clinic’s diverse professional staff has provided high-quality behavioral health services to children, adolescents, and professionals who work with them. Schumann provides operating support.

2011 $249,000

Community Food Bank of New Jersey

Contact Name
Kathleen DiChiara, Executive Director
Amount
$25,000
Category
Essex County
Year
2011
Location
Hillside, NJ

The Schumann Fund’s grant to the Community Food Bank of New Jersey supports the Kids Division which provides food, clothing, school supplies and books to children from low-income families.

Essex County Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA)

Contact Name
Karen Burns, Executive Director
Amount
$30,000
Category
Essex County
Year
2011
Location
Newark, NJ

Essex County Court Appointed Special Advocate helps Family Court judges in Essex County protect the welfare of the County’s foster children. The Schumann Fund supported Essex County CASA’s advocacy program for Essex County foster children aged birth to five.

Ironbound Community Corporation

Contact Name
Joseph Della Fave, Executive Director
Amount
$30,000
Category
Essex County
Year
2011
Location
Newark, NJ

Ironbound Community Corporation is a grassroots community-based organization addressing the myriad needs of nearly 1000 residents on a daily basis and advocating for equitable social, educational and environmental policies. Our grant provides operating support.

Link Community School

Contact Name
Maria Pilar Paradiso, Head of School
Amount
$10,000
Category
Essex County
Year
2011
Location
Newark, NJ

Our grant provides operating support to Link Community School, an independent high-performing middle school for 130 Newark seventh and eighth graders. Almost every Link student increases his or her standardized test scores by an average of two grade levels each year.

Newark Emergency Services for Families

Contact Name
Damyn Kelly, Executive Director
Amount
$25,000
Category
Essex County
Year
2011
Location
Newark, NJ

For more than three decades, NESF has provided comprehensive emergency services to families and individuals in crisis. Many of NESF’s clients are working, but earning too little to weather crises – eviction, high utility costs, loss of a job, sudden illness. The Schumann Fund provides operating support.

Northern New Jersey Maternal Child Health Consortium

Contact Name
Ilise Zimmerman, Executive Director
Amount
$25,000
Category
Essex County
Year
2011
Location
Paramus, NJ

In 1998 the Northern NJ Maternal Child Health Consortium created the Irvington Family Development Center, a family resource center. The center provides an array of programs: literacy, quality childcare, early childhood mental health, prenatal and health services and parenting classes. The Schumann Fund provides operating support.

Rutgers University – School of Criminal Justice

Contact Name
Todd Clear, Dean
Amount
$24,000
Category
Essex County
Year
2011
Location
Newark, NJ

The Rutgers School of Criminal Justice’s Newark Violent Reduction Initiative is a research-based project to reduce violent crime in targeted neighborhoods. The Schumann grant provides funding for social services and other supports.

The Salvation Army – Newark Area Services

Contact Name
Major Joachim Calvo, Newark Area Services Commander
Amount
$20,000
Category
Essex County
Year
2011
Location
Newark, NJ

The Salvation Army’s GrandFamilies program provides specialized educational, mental and emotional support group services as well as outreach and advocacy to custodial grandparents and other kinship guardians raising children other than their own. The program currently serves 480 GrandFamilies with approximately 1,000 children in Essex County. The Schumann Fund provides operating support.

Unified Vailsburg Services Organization

Contact Name
Robert M. Farley, Executive Director
Amount
$30,000
Category
Essex County
Year
2011
Location
Newark, NJ

Unified Vailsburg Services Organization is a dynamic, responsive multi-service organization that addresses the needs of senior citizens, young families, and youth. It is a voice for residents for neighborhood concerns, information, and action. The Schumann grant provides operating support.

Youth Development Clinic

Contact Name
Dr. Patricia Connors, Executive Director
Amount
$30,000
Category
Essex County
Year
2011
Location
Newark, NJ

The Youth Development Clinic’s cadre of diverse behavioral health practitioners offer wide-ranging mental health supports to children, adolescents, and the professionals who work with them. Our grant provides operating support.

2010 $170,000

Community Food Bank of New Jersey

Contact Name
Kathleen DiChiara,Executive Director
Amount
$35,000
Category
Essex County
Year
2010
Location
Hillside, NJ

The Schumann Fund’s grant to the Community Food Bank of New Jersey supports the Kids Division which provides food, clothing, school supplies and books to children from low-income families.

Link Community School

Contact Name
Maria Pilar Paradiso, Head of School
Amount
$20,000
Category
Essex County
Year
2010
Location
Newark, NJ

Our grant provides operating support to Link Community School, an independent high-performing middle school for 130 Newark seventh and eighth graders. Almost every Link student increases his or her standardized test scores by an average of two grade levels each year.

Newark Emergency Services for Families

Contact Name
Damyn Kelly, Executive Director
Amount
$30,000
Category
Essex County
Year
2010
Location
Newark, NJ

Newark Emergency Services for Families is one of Essex County’s most comprehensive social services agencies. Its cooperative arrangements with more than 60 local service providers make it the ?go to? place when it appears there is no other place to go. Schumann provides operating support.

Unified Vailsburg Services Organization

Contact Name
Robert M. Farley, Executive Director
Amount
$30,000
Category
Essex County
Year
2010
Location
Newark, NJ

Unified Vailsburg Services Organization offers social services, preschool and after-school programs, senior citizens services and housing rehabilitation and development services to area residents in Newark’s West Ward. Our grant provides operating support.

Youth Development Clinic

Contact Name
Dr. Patricia Connors, Executive Director
Amount
$30,000
Category
Essex County
Year
2010
Location
Newark, NJ

The Youth Development Clinic’s cadre of diverse behavioral health practitioners offer wide-ranging mental health supports to children, adolescents, and the professionals who work with them. Our grant provides operating support.

2009 $285,000

Boys & Girls Club of Newark

Contact Name
Felix Rouse, Executive Director
Amount
$20,000
Category
Essex County
Year
2009
Location
Newark, NJ

The Schumann Fund supported implementation of the organization’s Five-Year Strategic Plan.

Community Food Bank of New Jersey

Contact Name
Kathleen DiChiara, Executive Director
Amount
$35,000
Category
Essex County
Year
2009
Location
Hillside, NJ

The Community Food Bank of New Jersey’s mission is to fight hunger and poverty in New Jersey by assisting those in need and seeking long term solutions to hunger and poverty. The Food Bank’s Kids Division provides hot meals, new clothing, and school supplies to children in Newark and across New Jersey. The Schumann Fund supports that effort.

Essex County Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA)

Contact Name
Karen Burns, Executive Director
Amount
$30,000
Category
Essex County
Year
2009
Location
Newark, NJ

Essex County Court Appointed Special Advocate helps Family Court judges in Essex County protect the welfare of the County’s foster children. The Schumann Fund supported Essex County CASA’s advocacy program for Essex County foster children aged birth to five.

Ironbound Community Corporation

Contact Name
Joseph Della Fave, Executive Director
Amount
$30,000
Category
Essex County
Year
2009
Location
Newark, NJ

Ironbound Community Corporation is a grassroots community-based organization addressing the myriad needs of nearly 1000 residents on a daily basis and advocating for equitable social, educational and environmental policies. Our grant provides operating support.

Kids Corporation

Contact Name
Michaela Murray-Nolan, Executive Director
Amount
$15,000
Category
Essex County
Year
2009
Location
Newark, NJ

The Schumann Fund supported Kids Corporation’s Educational Service, which provides resources to after-school and summer programs in community-based organizations in Newark.

Link Community School

Contact Name
Marnie McKoy, Principal
Amount
$20,000
Category
Essex County
Year
2009
Location
Newark, NJ

Link Community School’s small classes, committed teachers, high expectations and extensive summer and afterschool programs give urban seventh and eighth-graders the transformational educational experiences they need to succeed. The Schumann Fund provides operating support.

Newark Emergency Services for Families

Contact Name
Genia Philip, Esq., Executive Director
Amount
$30,000
Category
Essex County
Year
2009
Location
Newark, NJ

For more than three decades, NESF has provided comprehensive emergency services to families and individuals in crisis. Many of NESF’s clients are working, but earning too little to weather crises – eviction, high utility costs, loss of a job, sudden illness. The Schumann Fund provides operating support.

Newark Family Resource Network

Contact Name
Mildred Crews, Executive Director
Amount
$20,000
Category
Essex County
Year
2009
Location
Newark, NJ

The Schumann Fund supported the Newark Family Resource Network’s Community Networ, which provides in-home and on-site prevention services for at-risk families not currently involved with New Jersey’s child welfare system.

Northern New Jersey Maternal Child Health Consortium

Contact Name
Ilise Zimmerman, Executive Director
Amount
$25,000
Category
Essex County
Year
2009
Location
Paramus, NJ

In 1998 the Northern NJ Maternal Child Health Consortium created the Irvington Family Development Center, a family resource center. The center provides an array of programs: literacy, quality childcare, early childhood mental health, prenatal and health services and parenting classes. The Schumann Fund provides operating support.

Unified Vailsburg Services Organization

Contact Name
Robert M. Farley, Executive Director
Amount
$30,000
Category
Essex County
Year
2009
Location
Newark, NJ

Unified Vailsburg Services Organization is a dynamic, responsive multi-service organization that addresses the needs of senior citizens, young families, and youth. It is a voice for residents for neighborhood concerns, information, and action. The Schumann grant provides operating support.

Youth Development Clinic

Contact Name
Patricia Connors, MD, Executive Director
Amount
$30,000
Category
Essex County
Year
2009
Location
Newark, NJ

For more than 50 years, the Youth Development Clinic has provided behavioral health services to families in Newark and surrounding areas who would not otherwise have access to those services. Schumann provides operating support.

2008 $360,000

Boys & Girls Club of Newark

Contact Name
Felix Rouse, Executive Director
Amount
$20,000
Category
Essex County
Year
2008
Location
Newark, NJ

The Boys and Girls Clubs of Newark have provided services to Newark children since 1938. The Schumann Fund supported the implementation of the Clubs’ strategic plan for growth and quality improvement.

Community Food Bank of New Jersey

Contact Name
Kathleen DiChiara, Executive Director
Amount
$25,000
Category
Essex County
Year
2008
Location
Hillside, NJ

The Schumann Fund supported the Food Bank’s Kids Division, which provides food, clothing and school supplies to children from low-income families.

Essex County Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA)

Contact Name
Katherine Burns, Executive Director
Amount
$30,000
Category
Essex County
Year
2008
Location
Newark, NJ

The Schumann Fund supported Essex County CASA’s advocacy program for Essex County foster children aged birth to five.

Independence: A Family of Services

Contact Name
Margaret Woods, Executive Director
Amount
$25,000
Category
Essex County
Year
2008
Location
Newark, NJ

A study of families in urban Essex County found that fathers want to be more involved in their children’s lives. The Schumann Fund made a grant to support the development and piloting of an evidence-based fatherhood program in East Orange, NJ

Ironbound Community Corporation

Contact Name
Joseph Della Fave, Executive Director
Amount
$30,000
Category
Essex County
Year
2008
Location
Newark, NJ

The Schumann Fund provided operating support to this multi-service, community-based organization.

Kids Corporation

Contact Name
Michaela Murray-Nolan, Executive Director
Amount
$15,000
Category
Essex County
Year
2008
Location
Newark, NJ

Kids Corporation’s Educational Service works with partner agencies with supplies, teacher training and curriculum to enrich learning opportunities for Newark children. It also takes children on field trips and to camp during the summer. The Schumann Fund grant supported the Educational Service.

La Casa de Don Pedro

Contact Name
Raymond Ocasio, Executive Director
Amount
$30,000
Category
Essex County
Year
2008
Location
Newark, NJ

The Schumann Fund provided operating support to one of New Jersey’s largest and oldest organizations serving Latino families.

Link Community School

Contact Name
Marnie McKoy, Principal
Amount
$25,000
Category
Essex County
Year
2008
Location
Newark, NJ

The Schumann Fund provided operating support to this independent middle school.

Newark Emergency Services for Families

Contact Name
Genia Philip, Esq., Executive Director
Amount
$25,000
Category
Essex County
Year
2008
Location
Newark, NJ

NESF provides comprehensive emergency services to Essex County families in need. A growing number of these families are working, but earning too little to meet their basic needs for food, clothing and shelter. The Schumann Fund provided operating support.

Newark Family Resource Network

Contact Name
Mildred Crews, Executive Director
Amount
$20,000
Category
Essex County
Year
2008
Location
Newark, NJ

The Schumann Fund supported the agency’s Community Network, providing in-home and on-site child abuse prevention services for families in Newark who are not involved with DYFS.

Northern New Jersey Maternal Child Health Consortium

Contact Name
Ilise Zimmerman, Executive Director
Amount
$25,000
Category
Essex County
Year
2008
Location
Paramus, NJ

The Northern NJ Maternal/Child Health Consortium works to improve the health and well-being of women, children and families. The Schumann Fund provided support for the Consortium’s Family Development Center in Irvington.

The Salvation Army – Essex County Area Services

Contact Name
Major Charles Kelly, Area Coordinator
Amount
$25,000
Category
Essex County
Year
2008
Location
Newark, NJ

Grandparents are raising one of every 10 children in Newark. The Schumann Fund supported the Salvation Army’s “Grandfamilies Program,” which offers assistance and respite to grandparents who are primary caregivers.

Unified Vailsburg Services Organization

Contact Name
Robert M. Farley, Executive Director
Amount
$35,000
Category
Essex County
Year
2008
Location
Newark, NJ

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.

Youth Development Clinic

Contact Name
Patricia Connors, MD, Director
Amount
$30,000
Category
Essex County
Year
2008
Location
Newark, NJ

The Schumann Fund provided operating support for the clinic, which provides mental health screening and services to families in urban Essex County.

2007 $425,500

Boys & Girls Club of Newark

Contact Name
Felix Rouse, Executive Director
Amount
$20,000
Category
Essex County
Year
2007
Location
Newark, NJ

The Boys & Girls Clubs provide safe and enriching afterschool and summer programs to Newark youth. The Schumann Fund supported the implementation of the Clubs’ strategic plan.

Community Food Bank of New Jersey

Contact Name
Kathleen DiChiara, Executive Director
Amount
$25,000
Category
Essex County
Year
2007
Location
Hillside, NJ

As part of its comprehensive services to families with young children, the Food Bank provides food, clothing, school supplies and books to children growing up poor in New Jersey. The Schumann Fund provided operating support for the Food Bank’s Kids Division.

Cornwall Center for Metropolitan Studies – Rutgers University

Contact Name
Dr. Stephanie Bush-Baskette, Director
Amount
$10,500
Category
Essex County
Year
2007
Location
Newark, NJ

The Schumann Fund supported the development of a comprehensive, searchable, dynamic Family Resource Inventory of services for at-risk families in Newark.

El Club del Barrio

Contact Name
Mua Bosch, Executive Director
Amount
$30,000
Category
Essex County
Year
2007
Location
Newark, NJ

For more than 30 years, El Club del Barrio has provided a network of social, education, recreation and health services to a primarily Latino population in the South Broad Street/Lincoln Park neighborhood of Newark. The Schumann Fund provided operating support.

Essex County Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA)

Contact Name
Katherine Burns, Executive Director
Amount
$30,000
Category
Essex County
Year
2007
Location
Newark, NJ

CASA recruits, trains and supervises volunteers to promote the welfare of Essex County children who have been removed from their homes because of abuse, neglect or abandonment. The Schumann Fund supported CASA’s Infant Advocacy Program.

Kids Corporation

Contact Name
Michaela Murray-Nolan, Executive Director
Amount
$15,000
Category
Essex County
Year
2007
Location
Newark, NJ

The Schumann Fund directed its grant for support of Kids’Corporation’s Educational Service, which provides resources to after-school and summer programs operated by community-based organizations in Newark.

La Casa de Don Pedro

Contact Name
Raymond Ocasio, Executive Director
Amount
$40,000
Category
Essex County
Year
2007
Location
Newark, NJ

The Schumann Fund has provided operating support to La Casa’s early childhood programs since 1976.

Leadership Newark

Contact Name
Celia M. King, Executive Director
Amount
$25,000
Category
Essex County
Year
2007
Location
Newark, NJ

Leadership Newark is a two-year experiential leadership development program for professionals in the early states of their careers who have a long-term commitment to improving the quality of life in Newark. The Schumann Fund sponsored a series of dinners with policy makers.

Link Community School

Contact Name
Marnie McKoy, Principal
Amount
$25,000
Category
Essex County
Year
2007
Location
Newark, NJ

For 35 years, Link has provided a rigorous education to middle school students from Newark and the urban areas that surround it. The Schumann Fund continued its operating support.

Newark Emergency Services for Families

Contact Name
Sheila Baynes, Executive Director
Amount
$25,000
Category
Essex County
Year
2007
Location
Newark, NJ

Newark Emergency Services for Families has provided a safety net for Essex County residents in crisis for 30 years. The Schumann Fund continued its operating support.

Northern New Jersey Maternal Child Health Consortium

Contact Name
Ilise Zimmerman, Executive Director
Amount
$25,000
Category
Essex County
Year
2007
Location
Paramus, NJ

The Schumann Fund grant supported the Consortium’s Irvington Family Development Center, which provides vital health and social services in one of Essex County’s neediest communities.

Project GRAD – Newark

Contact Name
Mary Bennett, Executive Director
Amount
$25,000
Category
Essex County
Year
2007
Location
Newark, NJ

The Schumann Fund grant supported group counseling and teacher training for young children exhibiting disruptive classroom behavior at one of Project GRAD’s elementary schools.

The North Ward Center

Contact Name
Stephen Adubato, Sr., Executive Director
Amount
$40,000
Category
Essex County
Year
2007
Location
Newark, NJ

The Schumann Fund provided operating support to this multi-service education and social service agency in Newark.

The Salvation Army – Essex County Area Services

Contact Name
Major Joe Noland, Territorial Commander
Amount
$25,000
Category
Essex County
Year
2007
Location
Newark, NJ

One of every 10 children in Newark is being raised by a grandparent. The Schumann Fund supported the “Grandfamilies Program,” which provides support and respite to grandparent-caregivers and advocates on their behalf.

Unified Vailsburg Services Organization

Contact Name
Robert M. Farley, Executive Director
Amount
$35,000
Category
Essex County
Year
2007
Location
Newark, NJ

The Schumann Fund provided general support to this Newark-based organization that combines direct services to families with community organizing and advocacy.

Youth Development Clinic

Contact Name
Patricia Connors, MD, Director
Amount
$30,000
Category
Essex County
Year
2007
Location
Newark, NJ

For 49 years, the Youth Development Clinic has provided mental health services to Newark children, technical assistance to Newark schools, and professional development to a diverse group of practitioners. The Schumann Fund continued its operating support.

2006 $480,000

Association for Advancement of Inner City Communities

Contact Name
Damon K. Ceaser, Executive Director
Amount
$25,000
Category
Essex County
Year
2006
Location
Irvington, NJ

The Schumann Fund provided support to help this fledgling organization develop its capacity to work with Irvingtons underserved youth.

Boys & Girls Club of Newark

Contact Name
Felix Rouse, Executive Director
Amount
$20,000
Category
Essex County
Year
2006
Location
Newark, NJ

The Schumann Fund provided operating support to the Clubs.

Community Agencies Corporation

Contact Name
Dorothy Knauer, Executive Director
Amount
$30,000
Category
Essex County
Year
2006
Location
Newark, NJ

The Schumann Fund provided operating support to the agencys programs for young children.

El Club del Barrio

Contact Name
Mua Bosch, Executive Director
Amount
$30,000
Category
Essex County
Year
2006
Location
Newark, NJ

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.

Essex County Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA)

Contact Name
Katherine Burns, Executive Director
Amount
$30,000
Category
Essex County
Year
2006
Location
Newark, NJ

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.

Ironbound Community Corporation

Contact Name
Joseph Della Fave, Executive Director
Amount
$30,000
Category
Essex County
Year
2006
Location
Newark, NJ

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

Kids Corporation

Contact Name
Michaela Nolan, Jr., Executive Director
Amount
$20,000
Category
Essex County
Year
2006
Location
Newark, NJ

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

La Casa de Don Pedro

Contact Name
Raymond Ocasio, Executive Director
Amount
$30,000
Category
Essex County
Year
2006
Location
Newark, NJ

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.

Link Community School

Contact Name
Marnie McKoy, Principal
Amount
$25,000
Category
Essex County
Year
2006
Location
Newark, NJ

Since 1969, the Link Community Schools 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 Links graduates complete high school, many of them in the regions most selective schools. The Schumann Fund provided operating funds.

Newark Emergency Services for Families

Contact Name
Sheila Baynes, Executive Director
Amount
$30,000
Category
Essex County
Year
2006
Location
Newark, NJ

Newark Emergency Services for Families provides comprehensive emergency services to families in crisis. Many of NESFs 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.

NJ AIDS Partnership

Contact Name
Marcia Harmon, Project Coordinator
Amount
$20,000
Category
Essex County
Year
2006
Location
Lawrenceville, NJ

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 Partnerships work in Essex County.

Northern New Jersey Maternal Child Health Consortium

Contact Name
Ilise Zimmerman, Executive Director
Amount
$25,000
Category
Essex County
Year
2006
Location
Paramus, NJ

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 Consortiums 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.

Project GRAD – Newark

Contact Name
Mary Bennett, Executive Director
Amount
$25,000
Category
Essex County
Year
2006
Location
Newark, NJ

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.

The North Ward Center

Contact Name
Stephen Adubato, Sr., Executive Director
Amount
$50,000
Category
Essex County
Year
2006
Location
Newark, NJ

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 Centers preschool program.

The Salvation Army – Essex County Area Services

Contact Name
Charles Kelley, Area Coordinator
Amount
$25,000
Category
Essex County
Year
2006
Location
Newark, NJ

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 Armys 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.

Unified Vailsburg Services Organization

Contact Name
Robert M. Farley, Executive Director
Amount
$35,000
Category
Essex County
Year
2006
Location
Newark, NJ

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 UVSOs early childhood programs.

Youth Development Clinic

Contact Name
Patricia Connors, Executive Director
Amount
$30,000
Category
Essex County
Year
2006
Location
Newark, NJ

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.

Total: $3,777,000