The Investors Foundation, which provides funding to organizations that enrich the communities served by Investors Bank, has awarded a grant of $10,000 to Seton Hall University. The funding, which builds on similar grants awarded by the Foundation over the past several years, will support the growth of the University’s Nonprofit Sector Resource Institute.
Part of Seton Hall’s Center for Public Service, the Institute is an academic management support and research center that works to build the capacity of the nonprofit sector in New Jersey and throughout the nation. Services offered by the Institute, which was established in 2005, include professional development programs for nonprofit management professionals; management assistance to nonprofit organizations; and the conducting and dissemination of applied research.
The Institute has new leadership — Audrey Winkler recently joined as its Director — and the grant will support the organization’s efforts to revisit its mission and goals, to chart its course for the future, and to identify new ways to support the professionals and nonprofit organizations with which it works.
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Winkler is a nonprofit organizational management consultant and has served as an Adjunct Professor of Political Science and Public Affairs at Seton Hall. “We greatly appreciate the continuing friendship of the Investors Foundation,” she said in accepting the grant. “I look forward to working closely with the Foundation, and with all our donors and partners, as I begin my first year with the Institute.”
“Since its founding, the Nonprofit Sector Resource Institute has provided Seton Hall students, faculty, and staff an opportunity to support the vital work that nonprofit organizations perform in our communities,” added Kevin Cummings, president and CEO of Investors Bank and a member of the Foundation’s board of trustees. “They have our continued best wishes in the support of their mission.”
