All of the following Request for Grants met the established funding guidelines of the NJ SIM Foundation:
- Charitable organizations based in the State of New Jersey that need financial and/or technical assistance with information technology to support their mission.
- Individuals residing in and studying in New Jersey who need financial assistance to continue their educations, particularly but not necessarily, in the field of information technology
CIO Technology Exchange and Golf Outing Recipients
2018 Spring Grant Cycle Recipients
2017 Spring Grant Cycle Recipients
2016 Fall Grant Cycle Recipients
2016 Spring Grant Cycle Recipients
2015 Fall Grant Cycle Recipients
2018 Spring Grant Cycle Recipients
Feeding Hands
Feeding Hands currently serves as many as 270 families (750 people!) each month with the compassionate help of over 300 individual volunteers and several volunteer groups. With a location next to RWJ Hospital Somerset, the sick and disabled from all over the area will stop by for help in meeting their food needs and, unlike most pantries, Feeding Hands turns no one away because of where they might live. They distribute over 12,000 pounds of meat, produce and non-perishables each month, most of which is donated by the public or gleaned from local stores. Last year alone this group distributed 75 tons of food!
The NJSIM Foundation’s grant of $6,000 will be used to procure a Cloud software solution and laptops which will be used to mobilize in the field to better reach and interact with their constituents. The new system will enable Feeding Hands to manage volunteers, procure food, track client visits and demographics providing data and insights needed to improve operations and services.
2017 Spring Grant Cycle Recipients
Roxbury High School Robotics Team
30-75 students on the Roxbury High School Robotics team participate annually in local and state robotics competitions featuring an intensive 6-week design, build, test of a custom robot to meet competition requirements.
The NJSIM Foundation Grant will enable the purchase of a computer controlled milling machine supporting fabrication of custom metal and composite robot parts. Local production of parts will shorten the cycle, allowing for more design iterations, enhancing the educational experience.
Our House – Hope Autism Solutions
The mission of Our House, Inc. is to provide healthy, stimulating, and inclusive environments for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities through community residences, employment services, innovative day programs, social opportunities and related support services designed to help them achieve their full potential for living meaningful and productive lives. Our House serves adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder, working with clients on communication skill development to expand opportunities for socialization.
Our House will acquire iPads, headphones, cases, software & development tools funded by their NJSIM Foundation Grant. The iPads will enable the adults to access visual support materials and offer assistance in communicating. The noise cancelling headphones offer a calming effect and are essential when the clients are out in the community in a loud situation. The iPads and software form a communication platform.
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2016 Fall Grant Cycle Recipients
Women Rising
Women Rising was established as a YWCA in 1905 by a group of 168 women who worked at Colgate and Company. Over the last 111 years, times have changed, but the top priority remains the same, serving low-income and homeless women and children. Women Rising is a non-profit organization that takes a holistic approach to serving women and families in Hudson County. Programming ranges from domestic violence counseling and a shelter to job training and housing assistance.
The Foundation supplied funding for iPads and emergency hardware supporting job training programs to teach individuals how to use new devices so that when they go out into the workplace, they are up-to-date on the various forms of technology
Mercer Center
Launched in 1997, the Sisters Academy of New Jersey is the only independent middle school for girls in New Jersey. The goal of Sisters Academy of New Jersey isto help at-risk girls, ages 10-13, escape the chronic inter-generational cycle of poverty endemic to Asbury Park by giving them the education, life skills and character development they need to enter competitive high schools and colleges, and launch successful professional careers.
Foundation funding will allow the Mercer Center to purchase laptops, software and maintenance package to help at-risk girls, escape the chronic inter-generational cycle of poverty endemic to Asbury Park by giving them the education, life skills and character development they need to enter competitive high schools and colleges, and launch successful professional careers.
2016 Spring Grant Cycle Recipients
Women’s Health Clinic at Morristown Medical Center
The Women’s Health Clinic at Morristown Medical Center provides women’s health services to the underserved women of northern New Jersey.
Through the NJSIM Foundation grant, the Women’s Health Clinic will be able to purchase 12 iPads to be used in a new patient electronic education initiative designed to assist low-income women actively participate in their care and improve their health. Each iPad will contain easy to follow educational chapters that patients will view while waiting for their medical visit at the hospital.
Isles
Isles, Inc. is a community development and environmental organization. Their mission is to foster self-reliant families and healthy, sustainable communities. Isles promotes public policies that support family self-reliance and community health.
To combat Trenton’s high dropout and low employment rates by preparing at-risk youths for work, higher-education and self-reliance, a grant from the NJ SIM Foundation will enable students to have access to current technology, applications and support to improve reading, writing and numeracy skills. Decreasing this performance gap and technological divide that students face will significantly help them succeed in life.
Street Light Mission
A grant from the NJ SIM Foundation has helped Street Light Mission provide computer technology for NJ students of struggling families. Many of the children who visit the mission do not have regular access to computer technology to complete school work. Through this program 10 students from junior and senior high school students would be selected through an application process to be loaned a personal computer laptop loaded with necessary software and a printer to utilize for the coming school year. Those who are successful during this year would be allowed to continue to utilize the computer for the following school year.
2015 Fall Grant Beneficiaries
Center For Family Services
Center For Family Services provides programs, including community outreach, school based and after school programs, substance abuse and intensive home based treatment programs, individual and family counseling, case management, foster care, and emergency shelters and residential facilities
By providing the funds for PCs which the center does not have today, the NJSIM Foundation grant will allow mothers living at facility to access the information about services available which will assist them to become self sufficient. PCs will support their housing and job search, resume writing, and research of program offerings.
Community Food Bank of New Jersey
The Community FoodBank of New Jersey distributes meals and groceries to the poor and low-income in the state. Food is distributed through the FoodBank’s own programs and through more than 1,000 member charities, including soup kitchens, food pantries, homeless and women’s shelters.
Field staff supporting the FoodBank’s programs will utilize laptop computers & tablets provided by the NJSIM Foundation grant to access the FoodBank’s databases remotely, file applications, and to keep records on clients and deliveries.
The Giving Hope Network
The Giving Hope Network strives to develop shared solutions for large, complex societal challenges by inspiring and mobilizing a passionate and capable community committed to making a big difference in people’s lives.
In 2012, GHN made a commitment to change the lives of 10,000 individuals impacted by autism. To do this GHN launched a program, “Giving a Voice to the Voiceless”. This program will provide children with autism access to iPad’s and, specialized software that will enable a child with autism the ability to 30 iPad kits, 3 power sync trays, mini mac, Apple® store cards
The NJSIM Foundation grant will help expand the Hear Me Now program by allowing the enrollment of new schools, and empowering additional students with iPads and other technology to better communicate and participate in the classroom & with their families and peers.
Jersey Explorer Children’s Museum
Jersey Explorer Children’s Museum provides educational enrichment to the thousands of underprivileged children who visit the museum as well as academic, vocational opportunities to at-risk young adults from NJ Youth Corps who build exhibits and staff the museum
The NJSIM Foundation grant will allow the museum to upgrade an existing Exploration Stations from a computer projection station in a multi-purpose room with several discovery trunks to a fully themed environment with technology & equipment, scenery, signage, and lighting.
The Market Street Mission
The Market Street Mission ministers to the needy people in Northern New Jersey. The organization meets their physical needs with food, shelter, clothing, and other necessities, and their emotional and spiritual needs with guidance and life change programs.
The NJSIM Foundation grant will assist in completely updating the Market Street Mission education / training facility with 20 new PC’s. Residents in the rehab program are enrolled in yearlong educational programs aligned with their needs to meet educational requirements & job skills development.
Newark Boys Chorus School
The Newark Boys Chorus School (NBCS) provides a rigorous academic and musical education to disadvantaged young men from the greater Newark area in grades five through eight.
Through their NJSIM Foundation grant, NBCS will purchase tablets for students (25), and utilize them during the school day as part of a WiFi distributed network at the school, for both teacher-centered classroom activities using a white projection board and student-centered activities inside/outside the classroom and at home.
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