Neighbor News
Northern New Jersey Community Foundation Collects Soup for Center for Food Action
The Northern New Jersey Community Foundation collected cans of soup at its second quarterly ArtsBergen Connect the Dots networking event.
The Northern New Jersey Community Foundation (NNJCF), a nonprofit organization based in Englewood, New Jersey, collected non-perishable cans of hearty soup for the Center for Food Action (CFA).
The cans of soup were collected at the NNJCF’s second ArtsBergen quarterly networking meeting, Connecting the Dots through Marketing: Engaging Our Communities Through the Arts, on January 19 at Fairleigh Dickinson University. The event attracted artists, writers, arts administrators, educators, municipal and community leaders, business owners, and arts supporters living or working in Bergen County.
The NNJCF initiated the collection as part of its mission to promote collaboration and civic engagement in the community. The food donation will provide nourishment to people in Bergen County during the cold winter months.
Find out what's happening in Englewood-Englewood Cliffsfor free with the latest updates from Patch.
The NNJCF focuses primarily on the arts, civic engagement, education, and public health. The foundation works with local governments, school districts, businesses, non-profit organizations, and citizen groups in Northern New Jersey to improve community life. Foundation partners identify and resolve regional problems and opportunities by talking and learning from each other, by sharing ideas, best practices, services, and resources.
ArtsBergen, an initiative of the NNJCF, is an emerging arts alliance in Bergen County, New Jersey that supports and encourages creative placemaking, the practice of integrating arts and culture into a neighborhood, town, or region to build community and livability and boost local economy. The initiative’s mission is to energize and unify artists and arts organizations and connect the Bergen County community to the arts.
Find out what's happening in Englewood-Englewood Cliffsfor free with the latest updates from Patch.
For more information, visit the organization’s web site, send an email to nnjcf@nnjcf.org, or call (201) 568-5608. Follow the NNJCF on Facebook and Twitter @NNJCF.
Photo: Jennifer Johnson, Director of Communications and Director Relations at the Center for Food Action, received bags of soup from the Northern New Jersey Community Foundation’s President, Michael Shannon.
Photo Credit: Will Eason, Center for Food Action