HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, EDUCATION AND LABOR REQUESTS
School Technology Improvements
1st Cerebral palsy of New Jersey
Belleville, NJ
The requested funding will be used to upgrade technology to help students with special needs succeed in school.
Amount Requested: $266,000
Academy Street Firehouse Youth Program
AIDS Resource Foundation for Children
Newark, NJ
The requested funding will be used for operation support of a youth program for at-risk children and adolescents impacted by HIV/AIDS. Specifically, this project will support afterschool and summer programs that help young people living in Newark impacted by HIV to receive comprehensive support services.
Amount Requested: $300,000
Jubilee Summer Academic Academy
All Saints Community Service and Development Corp.
Hoboken, NJ
The requested funding will be used for project expenses of the Jubilee Summer Academic Academy, an intensive summer educational support program for academically struggling, low-income, disadvantaged young people living in public housing in Hoboken, NJ.
Amount Requested: $150,000
Education for First Responders
Alzheimer's Association Delaware Valley Chapter
Marlton, NJ
The funding will be used to train first responders (Police, firefighters and EMTS) throughout the seven counties of southern New Jersey on how to deal with persons with Alzheimer's disease and related disorders. This will reduce or eliminate crisis situations that occur when individuals are unaware how to respond to persons with dementia disorders who may wander away or go missing.
Amount Requested: $151,250
Project ASPIRE NJ
American Association of Adapted Sports Programs, Inc. (AAASP)
Atlanta, GA
The requested funding will be for research, development and implementation of a program that supports the inclusion of students with disabilities in athletic activities. AAASP will work with the New Jersey Department of Education, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association and others to include disabled athletes in high school sports.
Amount Requested: $340,462
NJ Rising Young Artists Program
Appel Farm Arts and Music Center
Elmer, NJ
The requested funding will be used for support of a summer youth development program based in the arts. The program will offer disadvantaged and at-risk youth from throughout New Jersey the opportunity to enhance their academics.
Amount Requested: $350,000
Support Assistance for Families in Emergencies (SAFE)
ARC of Essex County
Livingston, NJ
The objective of the program is to help approximately 150 low income families support and care for a child or adult who is developmentally disabled. The funds will be used for family support services including respite care (both after school and on weekends), summer day camp, and week day adult recreation.
Amount Requested: $300,000
Dropout Prevention and Leadership Development Program
ASPIRA, Inc. of New Jersey
Newark, NJ
The requested funding will be used for operating costs to provide an after school dropout prevention program to 1,500 at-risk minority youth. The program will provide personal and academic counseling, homework help, tutoring, leadership development, and mentoring services in an effort to increase on-time grade promotion and the likelihood that the youth will graduate high school and pursue post-secondary education.
Amount Requested: $450,000
Improving Learning Resources Through Diversity
Association of Educational Publishers
Logan, NJ
The requested funds will be used to develop and implement a program for recruiting and retaining minority professionals into the educational publishing field. This program includes minority internship and scholarship programs, targeted communication and media events, an online matching center and public outreach to universities, agencies, community groups and job fairs. Funds would be used for equipment, program materials and support to staff.
Amount Requested: $424,860
Aviation and Technology Studies Institute
Atlantic Cape Community College
Mays Landing, NJ
The funding will be used to develop programs and equip facilities to launch Atlantic Cape Community College's Aviation and Technology Studies Institute. The Institute's offerings will include an Associate in Applied Science degree in Air Traffic Control, as supported by new instructional labs and courses in aviation technology and related science and math fields. The project will be closely coordinated with the NextGen Aviation Research and Technology Park and the FAA William J. Hughes Technical Center.
Amount Requested: $300,000
Partners for Allied Health Training (PATH) Program
Atlantic Cape Community College
Mays Landing, NJ
The requested funding will be used to expand Atlantic Cape Community College's Health Professions Institute, training low-income people for high-growth, well-paying jobs in health care. The funding will be used to enhance the capacity of the College's Health Professions Institute, creating new programs and adding in-demand industry certifications to existing programs, and promoting career ladders.
Amount Requested: $300,000
Solar (Photovoltaic) Training Center of Atlantic and Cape May Counties
Atlantic Cape Community College
Mays Landing, NJ
The funding will be used to design a photovoltaic installation training facility and training program. In partnership with Pepco Holdings, Inc., the training facility will be sited within Atlantic Cape Community College's solar photovoltaic power installation. The project will help meet the region's need for expanded access to training in solar technology, and will be marketed to serve the region's unemployed, underemployed and displaced workers, especially those in the building trades.
Amount Requested: $130,000
LEED Certification for Hammonton, New Jersey, Ambulatory Services Building
Atlantic City Regional Medical Center
Atlantic City, NJ
The requested funding will be used to construct an eco-friendly 39,000-square foot ambulatory care center and a new satellite emergency department. The project will improve the overall quality of healthcare in Atlantic City and surrounding communities, while also cutting costs and consuming less energy.
Amount Requested: $500,000
AtlantiCare Special Care Center Building Capacity for Improved Chronic Disease Outcomes
Atlantic City Regional Medical Center
Atlantic City, NJ
This funding will be used for the program expansion of the AtlantiCare Special Care Center (SCC). Specifically, this project will include design and construction of new space and the creation of a Diabetes Center of Excellence.
Amount Requested: $750,000
Atlantic Health Neuroscience and Stroke Network Initiative
Atlantic Health
Morristown, NJ
The requested funding will be used to acquire technology, increase staffing and for other facility improvements for tele-stroke programs. This project will enhance stroke services by providing trained EMS personnel, multidisciplinary stroke response teams, specialty diagnostic testing services, stroke patient care units, acute inpatient and outpatient and neuro-intensive care transport.
Amount Requested: $2,500,000
Autism NJ Statewide Patient Navigator Initiative
Autism New Jersey
Robbinsville, NJ
The requested funding will be used to implement a statewide autism patient navigator initiative. Funding will be used to finalize a system to assist individuals, families, caregivers and professionals impacted by autism spectrum disorders navigate the service delivery system in New Jersey from initial diagnosis through eldercare issues.
Amount Requested: $125,000
Bacharach Hospital Renovation
Bacharach Institute for Rehabilitation
Pomona, NJ
The funding will be used for renovation of the 50 bed acute rehabilitation wing including demolition of an outdated nursing station, facility improvements and the purchase and installation of additional seating for patient rooms.
Amount Requested: $400,000
Technology for Success
Belleville Public Schools
Belleville, NJ
The funding will be used to upgrade equipment and wireless infrastructure in Belleville schools to provide students with a technologically enhanced learning experience. This project is designed to allow the development of the necessary technologically advanced learning skills that are crucial to ensure that our students have the required technological literacy to compete in the 21st Century global marketplace.
Amount Requested: $1,020,325
Workforce Development Campus
Bergen Community College
Paramus, NJ
The requested funding will be used to purchase equipment for the Meadowlands Workforce Development Campus to increase employment training and placement. The goal is to expand high demand industry classroom education and hands-on training benefiting job seekers and employers in the retail and hospitality industries.
Amount Requested: $500,000
Creating a Model Arts Education Plan
Bergen Performing Arts Center (bergenPAC)
Englewood, NJ
The requested funding will be used to develop a comprehensive, multi-year strategy to educate youth through community outreach and arts education. This strategy will address the void in arts education available to children in the state of New Jersey.
Amount Requested: $500,000
Holocaust Libraries Expansion
Beth Medrash Govoha
Lakewood, NJ
The requested funds will be used to upgrade technology and expand services at the Holocaust libraries. These libraries are a unique educational, historical and cultural resource utilized by national and international scholars and this funding will allow for expansion of the collections.
Amount Requested: $700,000
Pathways to Success
Beth Medrash Govoha
Lakewood, NJ
The requested funds will be used to expand career and job skills counseling and job training at BMG for students and former students. The program will work in coordination with local job bank to help increase job search completion rates in tough economic times. Further, as midcareer professionals face extremely difficult job prospects, BMG's work with alumni who are dislocated workers re-entering the workforce or upgrading their skills directly addresses one of the hardest hit demographic groups in the current economic downturn.
Amount Requested: $425,000
Youth Empowerment Program Services Expansion
Bethel Community Development Corporation
Bloomfield, NJ
The requested funding will be used to purchase computer and audio visual equipment to be used for educational programs to provide at-risk youth tutoring services, entrepreneurship classes and other educational support.
Amount Requested: $170,000
Rehoboth Food Pantry
Bethel Community Development Corporation
Bloomfield, NJ
The requested funding will be used to expand the existing food distribution services to meet the increasing needs of very low-to-moderate income families in the area. The program aims to eliminate hunger with steady food provisions for long and short term needs.
Amount Requested: $175,000
Socio-Economic Empowerment Development (S. E. E. D.) Program
Bethel Community Development Corporation
Bloomfield, NJ
The requested funding will be used to provide job training and tutoring programs to youth and adults in the areas of english, math and basic technology programs. The goal of S.E.E.D. is to alleviate chronic dependence on public assistance in a variety of areas by families that have the ability to be self-sufficient but lack critical components such as education and vocational training.
Amount Requested: $540,000
Bloomfield/Nutley Boards of Education Alternative School Project
Bloomfield Board of Education
Bloomfield, NJ
The Bloomfield Board of Education seeks to create an alternative school, serving the public school systems of Bloomfield and Nutley. The purpose of this school is to provide additional services to disruptive students who may be suffering from mental, behavioral, or social problems by temporarily taking them out of the traditional classroom and moving them to an unconventional learning environment. The alternative school fosters smaller, more intimate classroom settings which can provide for a better learning situation.
Amount Requested: $700,000
State of the Art Nursing Education Center
Bloomfield College
Bloomfield, NJ
This is a partnership between Bloomfield College and Passaic County Community College to replace aged laboratory and classroom space with new facilities that will integrate modern teaching and learning technology directly into the physical space. The new space will offer practice areas, space for computer work stations, and new tele-health facilities.
Amount Requested: $750,000
After-School Tutoring and Summer Enrichment Program
BlueWaveNJ Public Interest Foundation
Montclair, NJ
The funding will be used for an after-school tutoring program and for summer enrichment activities to low and moderate income children, ages 6-16 in the area. These programs will provide academic support to marginalized students who need individualized tutoring but cannot afford the costs.
Amount Requested: $150,000
Economic Empowerment Program
BlueWaveNJ Public Interest Foundation
Montclair, NJ
This program will provide hands on assistance with job searching, financial management and retraining for low and moderate income individuals on 21st century employment opportunities, reducing the number of individuals requiring financial support from social and government agencies and helping provide new job opportunities.
Amount Requested: $150,000
Library Materials for Public Use
Borough of Bernardsville
Bernardsville, NJ
Funds will be used to purchase books, periodicals, audio books and online resources for public use through Bernardsville Public Library. These materials would include resources for homeschoolers, job seekers, college students and for English literacy programs.
Amount Requested: $22,900
Career Launch Job Training Program
Boys & Girls Clubs in New Jersey
Morristown, NJ
Teens need help to develop the skills necessary to successfully enter and stay in the work force. This program will help teens explore a variety of careers and make sound educational decisions to prepare for the world of work. The requested funding will be used to expand the job training program to additional youth and to increase the number of paid internships available for the program.
Amount Requested: $325,000
Be GREAT: Graduate
Boys & Girls Clubs in New Jersey
Morristown, NJ
The requested funding will be used to help youth at-risk of dropping out of school develop the skills needed to be successful in the classroom. This program provides the important connections to school and community and will help ensure that students attend and excel in school.
Amount Requested: $500,000
Center for Excellence in Technology, Telecommunications, and Economic Development
Brookdale Community College
Lincroft, NJ
Brookdale Community College seeks to expand and enhance its Center for Excellence in Technology, Telecommunications and Economic Development, a training program designed to meet the education and training needs of the Monmouth County workforce and stimulate economic growth in the field of technology. The College partners with county and state agencies, businesses, and universities to offer workforce training needed for the development of a skilled labor force.
Amount Requested: $400,000
5 year Integrated Bachelor's/Master's Program in Science, Math and Education including K-12 Credential
Caldwell College
Caldwell, NJ
Funds will be utilized to support the launch of a 5-year integrated Bachelor's/Master's program geared toward encouraging math/science majors to simultaneously pursue a K-12 teaching credential and a Master's degree in Education. Funds will also be used to recruit students from lower-income communities to pursue higher education and certification in science and math.
Amount Requested: $475,000
Civic Leadership Program
Calvary Christian School
Newark, NJ
This funding will be used to provide an after-school program that will utilize classroom instruction, workshops, demonstrations, art, music, and video to teach students to take action in their communities and to become responsible citizens. The curriculum covers citizenship and civic education, personal development and leadership, and communication and expressive arts, and responsible use of technology.
Amount Requested: $77,000
Campus Kitchen: Atlantic City High School and Richard Stockton College
Campus Kitchen Project
Atlantic City, NJ
Campus Kitchen provides technical support and training to students who run food recovery efforts, hunger outreach activities and nutrition initiatives in their communities. The requested funding will be used for a program in which students at Richard Stockton College and Atlantic City High School recycle food, turn it into nourishing meals, and deliver it to the needy while training the unemployed in the Atlantic City area. Students deliver meals, tutor at-risk children, educate clients on nutrition and healthy eating, partner with local farmers for sustainable food resources and economic development opportunities as well as lead a culinary job training program for unemployed adults.
Amount Requested: $150,000
Intensive Care Unit Renovation Project
Cape Regional Medical Center
Cape May Court House, NJ
The requested funding will be used for construction and renovation of a new 16 bed Intensive Care Unit at Cape Regional Medical Center. This renovation will be instrumental in improving the quality of healthcare by providing medical professionals the space and resources needed to accommodate the necessary equipment and technology of a modern Intensive Care Units.
Amount Requested: $500,000
Services to the Impoverished of Camden County
Cathedral Kitchen
Voorhees, NJ
Cathedral Kitchen offers meals, health services and job training to impoverished residents of the City of Camden and surrounding communities in New Jersey. The requested funding will be used to support and expand these important services.
Amount Requested: $50,000
Strengthening Families Project
Catholic Charities, Diocese of Trenton
Trenton, NJ
The requested funding will be used for an evidence-based relationship enhancement program targeted at high-risk families to prevent child abuse. The funding re-establishes a community-based service model developed with the Department of Health and Human Services that seeks to improve parenting and strengthen family relationships in the community.
Amount Requested: $140,000
Monmouth Counseling Service/ Child Behavioral Health
Catholic Charities, Diocese of Trenton
Trenton, NJ
The requested funding will be used to hire staff to increase community mental health services provided in collaboration with Monmouth University to low income children experiencing emotional and behavioral problems. The project will help the community meet a growing need for child mental health services and will help advanced graduate students attain licensing as Professional Counselors.
Amount Requested: $95,000
Women's Health Services and Primary Care Expansion
Center for Health Education, Medicine and Dentistry (CHEMED)
Lakewood, NJ
The requested funding will be used for equipment and construction related to the expansion of women's health services and primary care. The Center for Health Education, Medicine and Dentistry is planning a build out of a new Women's Health Department with 14 new exam rooms. The facility will offer complete Obstetrics and Gynecology services and the renovations will expand the Radiology Department to complement the expanded women's health services, adding mammography, x-ray equipment and associated computer systems.
Amount Requested: $1,200,000
Green Jobs Training Program
Central Jersey Community Development Corporation
Somerset, NJ
Funding will be used to train the unemployed and underemployed in green jobs. This will help a potential workforce of men and women retool and gain new skills in the green jobs industry in order to compete and find employment in this newly emerging sustainable market.
Amount Requested: $275,000
Patient Safety Through Health IT
CentraState Healthcare System
Freehold, NJ
The requested funding will be used to implement and operate Computerized Physician Order Entry and Electronic Medical Record systems. Through these efforts, CentraState will reduce costs in the health care system, enhance patient safety and improve clinical outcomes.
Amount Requested: $670,000
CentraState Family Medicine Center
CentraState Healthcare System
Freehold, NJ
The fund will be used to expand and purchase diagnostic equipment for the dedicated family clinic that serves as the primary care center for more than 19,000 patients in central New Jersey. This project will help improve the quality and capacity of care offered to the families in the area.
Amount Requested: $775,000
New Pediatric Health Center for Children in Foster Care
Children's Aid and Family Services
Paramus, NJ
The requested funding will be used for capital construction to open a children's health center for infants, children and teenagers in foster care. The renovations include: building a handicap accessible restroom, consultation and exam rooms, a reception and waiting areas. This facility will provide needed access to primary pediatric care for vulnerable infants, children and teenagers in foster care, especially those with special health care needs.
Amount Requested: $200,000
Securing Trenton Families' Health and Development Outcomes
Children's Futures
Trenton, NJ
This program will train and recruit and train up to 50 community residents, many from the hospital that will soon be moving out of Trenton, to provide health and other services through its six community-based neighborhood Family Success/Parent Child Centers.
Amount Requested: $800,000
Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Education Program
Children's Museum of New Jersey
Newark, NJ
The requested funding will be used to support operations for STEM education hands-on exhibits and programs designed especially for young children and families. Within this learning environment, children and families will be able to participate in learning activities that teach them about natural science, physical science, math, engineering, design and environmental science.
Amount Requested: $400,000
Special Needs Programming and Support
Children's Museum of New Jersey
Newark, NJ
The requested funding will be used to develop and deliver museum-based programming for children with special needs. Funding will support a training curriculum that will be used to train museum staff in serving and supporting children with special needs and their families.
Amount Requested: $350,000
Renovations to Mountainside Facility
Children's Specialized Hospital
Mountainside, NJ
The requested funds will be used to renovate and equip existing space at the Mountainside campus so that the services required for long-term care patients, including nursing, medical, dental, dietary and therapy can be given more effectively and efficiently.
Amount Requested: $500,000
Electronic Medical Records Technology
Chilton Memorial Hospital
Pompton Plains, NJ
The requested funding will be used to enhance emergency department patient volume through new medical technology and equipment. The technology will be used to track clinical patient care and to minimize errors and increase the efficiency of care.
Amount Requested: $965,000
Electronic Medical Records Medication Reconciliation
Christian Health Care Center
Wyckoff, NJ
The requested funding will be used to improve psychiatric and long term patient outcomes by upgrading electronic medical records systems. This enhancement will help improve the quality of health care for psychiatric and long term patients, many of whom suffer multiple emergent and chronic diseases, who are often prescribed multiple drugs. The system upgrade will track the history of medication selection, dosage, and adjustment to increase patient safety and help improve delivery of quality medical care after discharge.
Amount Requested: $400,000
Linden Family Success Center
Churches In Cooperation, Inc.
Newark, NJ
The requested funding will be used for program operations for the Family Success Center which provides comprehensive support to families and children suffering from problems such as abuse and neglect. The Center helps these individuals with support services including life-skills counseling and employment training.
Amount Requested: $200,000
After School Homework Assistance and Mentoring Program
City of New Brunswick
New Brunswick, NJ
The requested funding will be for an after-school assistance program. Many New Brunswick students are in low income families without access to computers in their homes and this funding will help provide academic achievement opportunities that they may not receive at home. These programs will develop students capabilities in math, science, social studies as well as improve social and emotional competency skills that can help them be a success in adult life.
Amount Requested: $623,100
Job Training and Employment Program
City of Orange Township
Orange, NJ
The requested funding will be used to develop a program that will offer job placement and training services to the residents of Orange. The Mayor's Office of Employment and Training will provide direct services to city residents and will coordinate activities and services with the NJ Department of Labor, The East Orange One Stop Center and Essex County College.
Amount Requested: $425,000
Carnegie Library Technology Modernization Project
City of Perth Amboy
Perth Amboy, NJ
The requested funding will be used to purchase computers and to modernize the library's technology infrastructure. This will expand access to computers for low-income residents and seniors in Perth Amboy who may not otherwise have the opportunity to utilize computers and the Internet.
Amount Requested: $200,000
Henry J. Austin Health Center Facilities Improvements
City of Trenton
Trenton, NJ
The requested funding will be used to renovate two Henry J. Austin Health Center facilities. The Center is the only Federally Qualified Health Center in Trenton and it provides care to low-income residents who are uninsured or underinsured. This project would complete Phase I of the planned renovations, which will allow the Center to offer adult medicine and OB/GYN and pediatric care.
Amount Requested: $1,390,000
Hospital Barcode Medication Administration System
Clara Maass Medical Center
Belleville, NJ
The requested funding will be used to purchase and implement a barcode medication administration system and wireless technology that will help reduce the potential for medication errors, enhance patient safety and reduce health care costs.
Amount Requested: $650,000
Project Renew Hope for the Cure
Coalition for Brain Injury Research
Clifton, NJ
The requested funding will be used to help the coalition provide outreach to Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) survivors and families regarding advances in TBI research. This program will benefit the brain injury community by raising awareness to the potential of brain cell regeneration research and the possible benefits this research offers.
Amount Requested: $250,000
Institutional Technology Capacity
College of Saint Elizabeth
Morristown, NJ
The requested funding will be used for upgrades to the College's technology infrastructure. The upgraded technology will provided a more productive learning experience for the students.
Amount Requested: $1,000,000
Neuro Interventional Suite
Community Medical Center
Toms River, NJ
The requested funding will be used for equipment and capital construction to create a Neuroscience Institute that will provide Ocean County residents access to the technology, specialists and care protocols for brain injury treatment. Ocean County is home to a high concentration of senior adults and these improvements will allow procedures to be performed more quickly and with increased safety for these patients.
Amount Requested: $500,000
Better Access to a Safe Environment
Community Treatment Solutions
Moorestown, NJ
The requested funding will be used for support services for youth who are being exploited for domestic human trafficking. Services are provided through a therapeutic group home model by professional staff that provides medical, legal, counseling and family reunification or independent living.
Amount Requested: $500,000
Medical Education Simulation Center
Cooper Health System
Camden, NJ
The requested funding will be used to renovate existing hospital space to construct and equip a medical education simulation facility at Cooper University Hospital. This initiative is a collaborative effort with Cooper Medical School at Rowan University and the simulation center will be used to educate students in various healthcare disciplines at all levels of ability and training.
Amount Requested: $1,300,000
Comprehensive Stroke Care Initiative
Cooper Health System
Camden, NJ
The requested funding will be used to construct and equip a neuro treatment lab. The lab will provide patients access to the appropriate standard of care by renovating space and installing biplane angiography equipment, neuro/hemo monitoring, and neuro-ablation systems to help treat patients suffering from strokes and aneurysms.
Amount Requested: $1,500,000
Coriell Center for Personalized Medicine
Coriell Institute for Medical Research
Camden, NJ
This funding would be used for a research study designed to determine the effectiveness of using individual genetic information in health management. The study would include researching the genetics that may impact drug toxicity and efficacy in an individual and the possible gene variants that elevate a person's risk of cancer and other complex diseases.
Amount Requested: $768,025
Comprehensive Healthcare for Women with Severe and Persistent Mental Illness
County of Essex, New Jersey
Newark, NJ
The requested funding will be used for staff salaries and program operations to establish a community health program for women with severe, persistent mental illness. This project will utilize the Telepsychiatry/Telehealth Outreach Program at Essex County Hospital Center to provide integrated gynecological healthcare for this at-risk group.
Amount Requested: $600,000
Promoting Psychiatric Wellness and Rehabilitation Services to Prevent Re-Hospitalization of Schizophrenic Patients
County of Essex, New Jersey
Newark, NJ
The requested funding will be used to train direct care staff to help people with schizophrenia adjust to living in the community and decrease re-hospitalizations. The program will produce a protocol for best practices throughout the Essex County Hospital Center, and the training program and materials will be shared with affiliated community based providers through the telepsychiatry program.
Amount Requested: $150,000
Housing First Collaborative
County of Passaic Human Services Department
Paterson, NJ
The requested funds will be used to implement the second year of a three-year Housing First Demonstration Initiative in Passaic County New Jersey, where the homeless will immediately be housed and provided the diversified supportive services they need to retain housing and cope with, address and/or overcome the issues that caused their homelessness.
Amount Requested: $600,000
CASA Services for Abused and Neglected Foster Children
Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) of New Jersey
Trenton, NJ
The requested funds will help to support salaries for CASA employees so that CASA volunteers may continue to support and advocated for abused or neglected children.
Amount Requested: $500,000
Covenant House New Jersey Aftercare Project
Covenant House New Jersey
Newark, NJ
The goal of the program is to provide support services to formerly homeless youth, including young mothers and their babies, transitioning from Covenant House Shelter Programs into permanent affordable housing within Essex, Atlantic and Union Counties. The Aftercare specialist will ensure that 55 homeless youth have access to employment education, health care, mental health services, life skills training and necessary social services needed to avoid eviction and the reoccurrence of homelessness.
Amount Requested: $250,000
New Jersey Caregiver Wellness Program
DAI Foundation, Inc.New Brunswick, NJ
The program will train professionals and help individuals to advance four key needs of caregivers: (1) information and education (2) services and resources (3) emotional and family support and (4) legal and financial assistance. It will include an assessment tool that identifies caregivers' needs, an interactive website and toll-free hotline, and workshops.
Amount Requested: $750,000
Electronic Health Record Initiative
Deborah Heart and Lung Center
Browns Mills, NJ
The requested funds will be used to purchase electronic health record equipment that will allow physicians to bring up all prior visit and testing information on a cart mounted computer in the exam room with the patient. The visit will be electronically documented eliminating the need for hand written documentation, forms and dictation. Once the visit is complete the system will generate the medical record, automatically fax a report to the primary care physician, bill the visit and electronically send all prescriptions to the patient's pharmacy.
Amount Requested: $500,000
Women's Job Readiness Workshops
Dress for Success Hudson County
Jersey City, NJ
The requested funds will be used to help disadvantaged, low-income adults achieve self-sufficiency by providing them with image consulting, job readiness services and a professional job interview-appropriate business wardrobe that results in second interviews, refined job seeking skills, elevated self-confidence, improved interpersonal skills, employment offers and/or internships.
Amount Requested: $500,000
Building Capacity for Research in the Sciences
Drew University
Madison, NJ
The requested funds will be used to expand and renovate Drew's Hall of Sciences, specifically transforming 4 obsolete research labs into 2 state-of-the art labs for faculty and undergraduates conducting research in the vital areas of earth/atmospheric science and molecular biology/biochemistry. The new labs will more than double the number of undergraduates able to participate in advanced, hands-on research in these areas.
Amount Requested: $1,150,000
Disabled Community Assistance Program
Dunellen DREAMS
Dunellen, NJ
The requested funds will be used to purchase books, computers, software, hardware, and computer peripherals to assist members of the disabled community to maximize their educational experience and to promote their recreational and socialization opportunities.
Amount Requested: $100,000
Mental Health Unit Upgrades
East Orange General Hospital
East Orange, NJ
This project will enable EOGH to upgrade its inpatient Behavioral Health Unit and will incorporate the latest research in mental health care design. It will create an environment that is attractive, calm and safe to help provide patients with the treatment and coping skills necessary to return to their lives.
Amount Requested: $450,000
eSchool Initiative
Eatontown Public Schools
Eatontown, NJ
The requested funds will be used for the purchase of computer equipment and technology that will provide students with a technologically enhanced learning experience. This project is designed to allow the development of the necessary technologically advanced learning skills that are crucial to ensure that our students have the required technological literacy to compete in the 21st Century global marketplace.
Amount Requested: $750,000
Soup to Jobs Program
Elijah's Promise
New Brunswick, NJ
The funds will help create a program to hire and train low-income individuals in cooking and food preparation. These individuals will then help to develop storable food products like soups, salsas and sauces. Foods purchased in the summer and used in the winter would come from area farms and community gardeners to support the local economy. The foods will be used for the free, healthy meals given to needy families in the soup kitchen and to have products for sale that in turn supports its non-profit operation.
Amount Requested: $125,000
Technology Training and Job Creation Program
Elizabethport Presbyterian Center
Elizabeth, NJ
The objective of the program is create a Technology Training and Employment Program that trains low-income and unemployed clients in designing websites and provides other technology services for the non-profit community in New Jersey. The program will provide a stipend for a four-month technology training program where graduates are either placed in a job or enrolled in an IT certification program.
Amount Requested: $300,000
Breast Cancer Digital Molecular Imaging System
Englewood Hospital and Medical Center
Englewood, NJ
The funding will be used for the purchase of the imaging system and for the construction of a room for the scanner and associated patient support facilities. The new system will allow EHMC to diagnose more patients at the earliest stage of breast cancer and at lower cost than current technology.
Amount Requested: $1,250,000
Smart Classroom Initiative
Essex County College
Newark, NJ
The funding will be used to purchase equipment to enable faculty to utilize state-of-the-art digital technologies for instructional purposes. Smart classrooms equip faculty with audio and video tools to enrich their lectures. Included are videos, satellite and video conferencing, specialized software, Internet connections, and more.
Amount Requested: $500,000
Roadmap to College
Essex County Links
Newark, NJ
The funding would be used to provide SAT preparation courses, financial aid workshops, application advice, weekly mentoring sessions for each student throughout the program, and college tours. The program targets students who have the desire and academic potential to attend college, but probably would not be successful applicants without the additional support and guidance provided by the Roadmap to College program.
Amount Requested: $75,000
Latino Education Pipeline
Fairleigh Dickinson University
Teaneck, NJ
The Latino Education Pipeline helps english-speaking first-generation college eligible students gain access to higher education and then stay in college with counseling and other support. A second component helps Spanish-speaking adult students move from a Spanish language curriculum to an English language curriculum leading to an A.A. degree and a full understanding of the English language in three years. Funding will be used for program and curriculum development as well as staffing for outreach and mentoring.
Amount Requested: $800,000
Emergency Food Relief
Family Food Relief of NJ
Lakewood, NJ
The requested funds will be used to provide basic kosher food necessities for needy families and individuals. There were an additional 900 families needing assistance this year and this program will help to feed them and the rest of the families facing significant economic difficulties.
Amount Requested: $450,000
Health and Wellness Project for Homeless Families
Family Promise
Summit, NJ
Family Promise will collect data and processes from existing health initiatives among 152 affiliates nationwide, distill from them best practices, and identify replicable initiatives. This will be used to create health initiative materials for use at affiliates in Union, Somerset, Essex, and Morris Counties as a pilot program for a national launch. These initiatives will address primary care, children's health, nutrition, vision care and mental health.
Amount Requested: $270,000
Bachelor's to BSN Program
Felician College
Lodi, NJ
Felician College will create an 18-month BSN program for students with bachelor's degrees in other fields to facilitate faster production of nurses into the workforce. Funding will be used to develop curriculum and programs and for faculty and staff salaries.
Amount Requested: $810,000
FOCUS After-School Education Program
FOCUS Hispanic Center for Community Development, Inc.
Newark, NJ
The requested funds will be used to implement after-school education services for 300 children in the City of Newark. These services will include academic remediation and enrichment, youth development and parental involvement initiatives.
Amount Requested: $345,000
Staying Active Program
FOCUS Hispanic Center for Community Development, Inc.
Newark, NJ
The requested funds will be used to develop a wellness program to assist 300 elderly, 60 years and older, in Essex County develop an active and healthy lifestyle. The funding will be used to cover the costs of healthy-living workshops and supervised physical activities.
Amount Requested: $190,000
Mobile Food Pantry
Food Bank of South Jersey
Pennsauken, NJ
The requested funds will be used to purchase two mobile food pantry trucks, each equipped with refrigeration, awnings, tables, driver and mobile pantry coordinator to travel to rural and underserved communities in Southern New Jersey to distribute nutritious food.
Amount Requested: $412,798
New Jersey Eye Care Initiative
Friends of the Congressional Glaucoma Caucus Foundation
Lake Success, NY
The requested funds will be used to provide free glaucoma screenings and follow-up services throughout the state of New Jersey, using state-of-the art Mobile Eye Screening Units.
Amount Requested: $300,000
Technology for Success
Garfield Public Schools
Garfield, NJ
The requested funds will be used for the purchase of technology, infrastructure, and professional development that will provide additional learning opportunities for a Title 1 school that is in need of improvement.
Amount Requested: $985,000
Green Jobs Education and Training Program
Generations, Inc.
Lindenwold, NJ
The requested funds will be used to establish a green jobs training program that will offer vocational, employment and housing opportunities to vulnerable populations. The vocational program will train on several renewable energy competencies including bio-diesel manufacturing, solar panel, and residential windmill turbine assembly and installation leading to a Certificate in Renewable Energy Technician conferred by Thomas Edison State College.
Amount Requested: $700,000
Center for Technology in Learning
Georgian Court University
Lakewood, NJ
The funding will be used for equipment and other costs associated with creating a high-tech hands-on learning space at GCU. The newly created Center for Technology in Learning will provide learning and training space for future nurses, current and future K-12 teachers, homeland security personnel, current and future business leaders, and allow GCU to provide global education experiences to the entire community. Immediate uses of the Center include a web-based video conference room; a business simulation room with a specialized financial trading lab; a healthcare training facility to allow nursing students to watch real time surgeries/medical procedures; and a model classroom for future and current K-12 educators.
Amount Requested: $602,000
Institute for Autism Studies
Georgian Court University
Lakewood, NJ
The requested funds will be used to provide intensive professional support and training to help educators meet the educational needs of students with autism. A minimum of 150 school professionals will be served in at least 25 districts throughout New Jersey.
Amount Requested: $410,000
STEM for Women
Georgian Court University
Lakewood, NJ
The funding will be used for equipment and supplies to provide students with hands-on learning experiences while expanding GCU's science research capabilities. The program will help to train future nurses, K-12 teachers in STEM fields and scientists to work in New Jersey's schools, hospitals and industries.
Amount Requested: $577,700
Military Occupation Specialty Online Translator
G.I. Go Fund
Newark, NJ
The funding will be used to create an online Military Occupation Specialty (MOS) translator, allowing veterans to dig deeper into their military experience and find the skills that can be related to a civilian career. This new online resource will allow veterans to provide civilian employers with skills and responsibilities attained during military service that are now translatable in a resume to the civilian workforce. Veterans will be better candidates for employers, reducing the high rate of unemployment while reducing the collateral affects associated with unemployment.
Amount Requested: $325,000
Advancement of Specialized Cardiac Services
Hackensack University Medical Center Foundation
Hackensack, NJ
HUMC is embarking on a major expansion and renovation of the Emergency Department (ED) designed to allow patients more rapid access to specialists that will ultimately improve patient care. The requested funds will help HUMC provide advanced cardiac services by purchasing a Magnetic RI. Faster access to cardiac services like Magnetic RI in the ED will result in better patient outcomes.
Amount Requested: $1,000,000
Linear Accelerator Equipment Upgrade
Hackettstown Regional Medical Center
Hackettstown, NJ
The funds will be used to purchase equipment upgrades for the Linear Accelerator, including new computer software technology and physical equipment enhancements. The upgrade will provide cancer patients with radiation treatments that are more efficient with less side effects, improved quality of life, and better outcomes.
Amount Requested: $620,000
Annatto Seed- Homeless Toddlers After-School Program
Hispanic Multi-Purpose Service Center
Paterson, NJ
The funding will be used for a new after-school program for the children of homeless young mothers who reside in the transitional housing facility. The program will serve toddlers ages 18 months through 4 years. The services to homeless toddlers have extremely positive long-term benefits as the children become school-aged and are able to compete more effectively and experience greater success in the public schools.
Amount Requested: $75,000
Expansion/Upgrade of Labor-Delivery Facilities
Hoboken University Medical Center
Hoboken, NJ
The requested funds will be used to purchase medical equipment for expanded labor and delivery facilities at Hoboken University Medical Center. The project will increase access to critically needed obstetrics services for low-income, medically indigent expectant families in Hudson County, including
high-risk-neonatal services.
Amount Requested: $1,000,000
Interventional Institute
Holy Name Hospital
Teaneck, NJ
The requested funds will be used to replace a now 19-year old angiography suite within the Interventional Institute at Holy Name Medical Center. The Institute uses revolutionary imaging techniques to 'see' inside the body while guiding narrow tubes (catheters) and other very small instruments through the blood vessels and other pathways of the body to the site of a problem. It enables patients to receive treatment for a variety of disorders without surgery. General anesthesia is seldom used, and risk, pain and recovery time are significantly reduced.
Amount Requested: $1,500,000
Technology Training and Jobs Program
Hopeworks 'N Camden
Camden, NJ
The Hopeworks Technology Training program helps at-risk youth in Camden train for and secure jobs in the technology industry. The Hopeworks program has a basic training component that covers Internet basics and web site design while advanced training includes Geographic Information Services (GIS) and advanced web site development. All tracks incorporate education in literacy, leadership, personal formation, and job readiness and offer the opportunity to earn college credits.
Amount Requested: $175,000
Comprehensive Community Child Abuse Prevention
Hudson County Child Abuse Prevention Center
Jersey City, NJ
To fund a comprehensive, county-wide program to keep children safe from child abuse and provide multi-disciplinary services to victims. The Center will conduct 20 workshops for children ages 8-16 related to child safety, self-esteem, conflict resolution and emotional management. The Center will conduct 40 professional training sessions at sites throughout Hudson County focusing on recognizing signs of child abuse, reporting obligations, behavior management and child development. Approximately 1,000 professionals will attend these sessions.
Amount Requested: $300,000
Improving Birth Outcomes Program
Hudson Perinatal Consortium
Jersey City, NJ
The requested funds will be used in partnership with the United Way of Hudson County to provide pregnancy and parenting information and mentoring to women in Hudson County. This should provide better pregnancy outcomes and decreased preterm births as well as less incidence of child abuse and still birth.
Amount Requested: $322,000
Surgical Suite Expansion
Hunterdon Medical Center Foundation
Flemington, NJ
The funding will be used to renovate and expand the surgical suite at Hunterdon Medical Center including the construction of two new state-of-the-art operating rooms. The project will provide enhanced, patient-centered care by creating a more flexible infrastructure to accommodate new technology and built-in reserve capacity.
Amount Requested: $2,000,000
Project DADS
Independence: A Family of Services
Newark, NJ
The funding will be used for an effective parenting training and job placement program for custodial and noncustodial disadvantaged fathers in Essex County focusing on Newark, East Orange, Irvington and Orange. The program will increase the financial and emotional support of children by their fathers and enhance the parental relationships that promote healthy child development.
Amount Requested: $200,000
The Independence Being Family Center
Independence: A Family of Services
Newark, NJ
The requested funds will be used for start-up and operating costs for a comprehensive family development program for poor and at-risk families. The program will provide early childhood education, parenting education, family therapy, life skills training, substance abuse counseling, job skills training, job placement, home visiting and aftercare support. This will help to reduce the number of abused and neglected children and to increase the number of parents who are able to provide for and nurture their children.
Amount Requested: $671,444
Pathways Media Center
Independence: A Family of Services
Newark, NJ
The funds will be used to provide an IT and multimedia training program for disadvantaged unemployed and under-employed adults in Newark, Irvington, East Orange and Orange. Through vocational training and job placement the program will increase the number of adults who are able to financially support for themselves and their families.
Amount Requested: $434,830
Autism and SNPs in the IGF Pathway
Institute for Advanced Study
Princeton, NJ
The funding would provide research and administrative support for two post-doctoral Members to test and perform statistical analyses on the frequency of genetic mutations in three critical signaling pathways which are believed to act on the central nervous system to contribute to autism and autism spectrum disorder (ASD). They will seek to identify specific variations and combinations of these variations that occur more frequently in individuals with ASD than in the general population.
Amount Requested: $216,000
Mathematics Education for New Jersey Teachers
Institute for Advanced Study
Princeton, NJ
The funding will be used for professional development for NJ math teachers. It is imperative that the nation develop teachers who know, from a more advanced perspective, the mathematical content they are responsible for teaching. These programs will contribute to the development of mathematically knowledgeable teacher-leaders in New Jersey and improve mathematics and its learning in the State.
Amount Requested: $70,000
Turning Around Low Performing High Schools in Union City, New Jersey
Institute for Student Achievement
Lake Success, NY
The funding will be used to increase graduation and college-going rates at Union City North and South High School. ISA focuses on changing the culture of the school from one of failure to one of college-going, by redesigning the school structure, the instructional program, and the support systems for both teachers and students.
Amount Requested: $500,000
Training for At-Risk Youth in In-Demand Fields
International Youth Organization
Newark, NJ
The requested funds will be used to train unemployed and underemployed youth in growth fields and occupations that will enable them to support themselves and their dependents. Job training and skills development in environmental and green fields will help young people obtain meaningful employment so they can adequately care for themselves and their families.
Amount Requested: $352,000
Isles' E4 Project
Isles, Inc.
Trenton, NJ
The funding will be used to support Isles' E4, which recruits, trains and hires unemployed and underemployed Trenton residents to conduct energy audits and retrofits on older, leaky homes in cities throughout New Jersey.
Amount Requested: $250,000
New Jersey Haitian Family Resource
Jefferson Park Ministries
Elizabeth, NJ
Jefferson Park Ministries (JPM) is the agency that was appointed by New Jersey Homeland Security to lead in assisting American citizens and other eligible evacuees from the Haitian earthquake connect to family support centers in the areas where they will live. The project will provide emergency services such as grief counseling and health screening; temporary housing and health services; and job placement for graduates of the educational and job training programs.
Amount Requested: $500,000
Heroes of September 11th Trauma Center and Emergency Department
Jersey City Medical Center
Jersey City, NJ
The requested funding will be used to expand the capacity of the existing Jersey City Medical Center Heroes of September 11th Trauma Center to accommodate its rapidly increasing volume of emergency patients. The Trauma Center is currently functioning at 50% above design capacity and it is the only Trauma Center in Hudson County, which is the most densely populated county in the most densely populated state of our union.
Amount Requested: $1,000,000
NORC Aging in Place Services Project
Jewish Family and Children's Service of Greater Mercer County
Princeton, NJ
The requested funds will be used for the continued development of an innovative model of supportive services to assist older adults to stay in their own home through targeted and coordinated services. This multi-disciplined approach incorporates health and social services elements including case management, social work services, and health care management.
Amount Requested: $300,000
Critical Innovations for Aging in Place
Jewish Family Service of Central New Jersey
Elizabeth, NJ
The funding will be used for the provision of coordinated nursing, home health, nutritional support, and case management services to help older adults be healthier and safer in their homes. The funding will be used to expand two existing programs and implement an additional program in Westfield.
Amount Requested: $300,000
SEQUOIA
Jewish Family Service of Clifton
Clifton, NJ
The funding will be used to provide social workers, nursing and other support staff and services as part of an integrated community based program designed to help seniors stay in their homes. Enabling seniors to stay in their own eliminates the high financial and often emotional costs associated with relocating to an assisted living or nursing facility.
Amount Requested: $300,000
Case Management and Supportive Services for the Psychiatrically Disabled
Jewish Family Service of North Jersey
Wayne, NJ
The requested funds will be used to support the expansion of case management and supportive services to psychiatrically disabled adults who are not linked with any other program. Services will be available to an additional 250 psychiatrically disabled adults to stabilize the client and, ultimately, encourage independence and self-sufficiency.
Amount Requested: $169,125
Care Management Services for Older Adults
Jewish Family Service of North Jersey
Wayne, NJ
The requested funds will be used for the expansion of care management services to isolated, at-risk, frail older adults. In-home support services will be coordinated in an effort to decrease duplication and fragmentation of services that can often occur with the elderly. This will help to enable older adults to safely age-in-place, in their accustomed home environments.
Amount Requested: $135,375
The TeleCare Connection
Jewish Family Service, Inc.
Teaneck, NJ
Care Managers will reach out to isolated elders on a weekly basis through virtual home visits using computers, cameras and the internet, and will provide in-home visits on a quarterly basis. Participants will have access to online computer classes and cognitive enhancement training to delay the onset of age related dementia. Telecare will reduce isolation and depression in elders in an effort to increase health and wellbeing.
Amount Requested: $300,000
Stories Told Offer Redirection for Youth (STORY)
Jewish Family Service, Inc.
Teaneck, NJ
This funding will used to purchase audio/visual equipment and pay salaries to implement STORY in different schools. STORY provides young people with an opportunity to record their story and share it with others. In the process the students learn technical skills in recording, editing and producing their story, and gain communication skills by interviewing family members. The program hopes to provide increased self-esteem, adaptive coping skills, decision-making strategies and skills, and improved parental communication.
Amount Requested: $109,234
Hip Seniors-Highland Park
Jewish Federation of Greater Middlesex County
South River, NJ
The requested funding will be used to provide services to meet the needs of senior adults to maintain their independence and remain in their community. Services will include healthcare management, career services, case management and social work services including geriatric assessment and care planning, educational, socialization, and recreational programs. These services will increase community engagement of senior adults, stabilize physical health, enhance psychological well-being, improve safety, address financial concerns, and support caregivers.
Amount Requested: $303,968
Senior Communication Program
Jewish Federation of Ocean County
Lakewood, NJ
This funding would help isolated seniors connect to family and the community by utilizing computer and web-camera services. This will help to reduce social isolation and the accompanying depression. The funding would train seniors in the use of computers, assist with troubleshooting, and develop an intergenerational volunteer program for technical support.
Amount Requested: $100,000
Cherry Hill Senior Life
Jewish Federation of SNJ
Cherry Hill, NJ
This program will implement best practices in programs and services for older individuals. Case managers and social workers will coordinate service delivery by medical and supportive health professionals. The funding will also support regular educational, social and physical activities to promote the cognitive, mental/emotional and physical health of senior citizens.
Amount Requested: $110,000
Academy for Workforce Empowerment
Jewish Renaissance Foundation
Perth Amboy, NJ
The Academy for Workforce Empowerment (AWE) provides job readiness, training and placement activities for low-income residents giving them skills and opportunities to gain and sustain employment and to assist with entrepreneurial efforts. The program also provides financial counseling and case management along with the educational, technical, and financial support to achieve economic solvency. The requested funding will be used for operating costs to double the number of people who may participate in the program from 80 to 160 and to purchase technology for the computer center.
Amount Requested: $200,000
Jewish Renaissance Center for Diabetes Prevention and Care
Jewish Renaissance Medical Center
Perth Amboy, NJ
The requested funds will be used to establish a centralized, one-stop mechanism of education, prevention and care for extremely low-income children and families with diabetes, or at high risk of becoming diabetic. The Center promotes regular care in a lower cost setting as compared to hospital emergency rooms.
Amount Requested: $845,000
Newark School-Based Health Center
Jewish Renaissance Medical Center
Perth Amboy, NJ
The requested funds will be used to cover the construction and equipment costs associated with establishing two additional sites within the Newark School-Based Health Center program. Newark Public Schools, the City of Newark, and JRMC have joined forces to expand the Newark School-Based Health Center program to two additional schools in order to meet the escalating demand for healthcare for Newark children and youth.
Amount Requested: $836,286
Maturity Works
Jewish Vocational Service of MetroWest, Inc.
East Orange, NJ
The requested funds will be used to provide specialized career counseling and placement services to mature job seekers age 50+ affected by the economic downturn. Returning mature adults to the workforce will result in a decrease in unemployment. This program will also address a significant unmet need in the public workforce system, which lacks the capacity and experience to provide the specialized, age-sensitive job placement necessary to assist formerly middle income mature adults.
Amount Requested: $300,000
Ticket to Success Afterschool Program
Kearny Public Schools
Kearny, NJ
The requested funds will be used to continue an afterschool program for the students in Kearny. The program is designed to provide children in the district an environment for improved learning and social interaction, while providing increased safety and reduction in the incidence of risk taking behaviors.
Over 1,000 students have participated in this initiative over the last five years and their progress academically, emotionally and socially has been measured throughout.
Amount Requested: $400,000
School Learning Enrichment and Aptitude Prospectus (LEAP)
Kearny Public Schools
Kearny, NJ
The requested funds will be used to provide the district with the necessary hardware, software and professional development to fully implement a well designed, technologically advanced eLearning program. This will include the use of laptops, distance learning, video conferencing, internet-based learning and virtual libraries to enhance the overall educational experience students will encounter.
Amount Requested: $1,200,000
South Jersey Cancer Network Diagnostic Excellence Initiative
Kennedy Health System
Turnersville, NJ
The requested funds will be used to acquire and implement state-of-the-art integrated PET/CT imaging system to better diagnose and more effectively treat cancer and other maladies.
Amount Requested: $680,000
Telemetry Unit Crisis Equipment Purchase
Kimball Medical Center Foundation
Lakewood, NJ
The requested funds will be used to purchase a new telemetry system for the remote monitoring of inpatients requiring enhanced cardiac care. The system will insure that patients can be admitted into the appropriate level of care and not be held in the Emergency Department waiting for an available bed.
Amount Requested: $365,000
Financial Opportunity Center
La Casa de Don Pedro
Newark, NJ
For the start up operating costs of a new Financial Opportunity Center to assist low income families improve their employability. Specifically, the program will provide employment placement and career advancement, financial counseling and coaching as well as social services support.
Amount Requested: $160,000
21st Century Classroom Project
Lakewood Public School District
Lakewood, NJ
The requested funds will be used for the purchase of computer technology including interactive "SMART" boards, student response remotes, infrared audio system, laptops, and netbooks for eighteen classrooms in the middle and high schools. The 21st Century Classroom program which will provide students with a technologically enhanced learning experience.
Amount Requested: $213,000
Education and Wellness Program
Laurel House Middlesex
New Brunswick, NJ
Laurel House Middlesex is a local community center that offers people who have serious, chronic mental illness opportunities to achieve their full potential. This requested funding will be used to provide life-skill training that will promote both independence and total wellness. This training will significantly increase the possibility that the members will become self-sufficient which reduces the need for other government programs.
Amount Requested: $50,000
Transitional Employment Program
Laurel House Middlesex
New Brunswick, NJ
The requested funds will be used to fund Laurel House's transitional employment program which provides part-time employment opportunities for Laurel House members. Connecting the mentally ill with appropriate gainful employment opportunities helps them become productive members of society.
Amount Requested: $60,000
Integrated STEM Education Programs for Students/Teachers in New Jersey
Liberty Science Center
Jersey City, NJ
The requested funds will be used to provide educational programs and professional development in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) disciplines for New Jersey in grades 6-12 onsite, offsite, and online. Liberty Science Center will partner with up to six school districts throughout New Jersey to provide online and distance learning, and will focus on health and nutrition, STEM career opportunities, environmental issues, and workforce readiness skills.
Amount Requested: $500,000
Live From- Technology and Web Based Upgrades
Liberty Science Center
Jersey City, NJ
Live From is an award-winning program that uses videoconferencing to connect over 5,000 students annually to hospitals to view live surgery. This helps to provide youth with an in-depth exposure to career options in the all-important fields of science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and health services, at an age when their academic and personal life courses have yet to be determined. To accommodate the growing expectations, educational needs of students/teachers and to remain an innovative technological resource an upgrade to the technology of the program and web activities are necessary.
Amount Requested: $200,000
Project STOP
Liberty Science Center
Jersey City, NJ
Project STOP (Schools Transforming Obesity Prevention) will target 1,250 pre-kindergarten through fourth grade students in Newark, New Jersey. The project aims to reduce childhood obesity and increase fitness and wellness by educating children on a fitness and nutrition curriculum; educating parents via an after-school nutrition education program that will reinforce the lessons of the in-school curriculum, and through cooking workshops.
Amount Requested: $500,000
Radiology Equipment Program
Lourdes Medical Center of Burlington County
Willingboro, NJ
The requested funds will be used to purchase radiology equipment that will increase the Medical Center's diagnostic capabilities, improving the quality of care and increase the number of patients served.
Amount Requested: $1,300,000
Meridian Health Southern Ocean County Hospital Emergency Department Expansion and Renovation
Meridian Health
Neptune, NJ
The requested funds will be used for construction and equipment to expand the Southern Ocean County Hospital Emergency Department (ED). The funding will be used to quadruple the current ED space and will include 40 treatment rooms, a cardiac/trauma room, dedicated secure behavioral health and pediatric rooms, and will allow for isolation in infectious disease cases.
Amount Requested: $2,000,000
Meridian Health Medical Home Demonstration Project
Meridian Health
Neptune, NJ
The Medical Home Project is for patients with 4 or more chronic conditions. The Project will use a shared database and electronic health records for community physicians' data storage, analysis, and reporting capabilities to identify gaps in care, track referrals and appointments, report performance, communicate with the medical team and for physician practice participation. The Project will allow for integrated patient care, which improves health outcomes and reduces the costs of over-utiliztion and medical errors.
Amount Requested: $2,885,000
Bone Density Screening Equipment
Metropolitan Family Health Network
Jersey City, NJ
The requested funds will be used to acquire an iDXA Digital Bone Densitometer. This will enable Metropolitan Family Health Network to conduct 1,000 bone density screenings annually for low-income, medically underserved, uninsured, and underinsured residents of Jersey City and Hudson County, particularly those over age 60 who are at increased risk of osteoporosis/osteopenia.
Amount Requested: $110,000
Middlesex County 10 Year Plan to End Chronic and Family Homelessness
Middlesex County Department of Human Services
New Brunswick, NJ
The requested funding will be used for administrative costs, studies and for electronic record technology to implement Middlesex County's 10-year plan to end chronic homelessness in the county.
Amount Requested: $600,000
Subspecialty Clinic Expansion Project
Monmouth Medical Center and Monmouth Family Health Center
Long Branch, NJ
The requested funds will be used for renovation and equipment costs associated with relocating three subspecialty clinics to a free standing center. This will allow dental, orthopedic, and surgery services to be provided under a single roof in order to more effectively serve the growing number of patients who utilize these clinics.
Amount Requested: $750,000
School of Science Initiative
Monmouth University
West Long Branch, NJ
The funds will be used to acquire modern information technology instrumentation to support STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) programs. Recruiting and training students in STEM disciplines is a nationally-recognized challenge with critical potential impacts and implications for society. The equipment will help Monmouth University enhance STEM education and research with an overall goal of attracting and retaining more students in STEM disciplines.
Amount Requested: $1,600,000
Veterans' Coming Home Initiative
Monmouth University
West Long Branch, NJ
The requested funding will build upon the effort by the School of Social Work at Monmouth University to recognize and prepare social work students and community practitioners to meet the needs of returning career, reservist, and National Guard military personnel and their families. Currently, many social service agencies are not equipped to work with veterans and do not understand military culture, military benefits, and military lifestyle. Therefore it is necessary for social service agencies and their staff to receive training on how best to work with veterans and their families.
Amount Requested: $500,000
Access EMS
MONOC Mobile Health Services
Neptune, NJ
The goal of this program is to link medically underserved citizens with access to healthcare monitoring and to primary care. Funding will be used to place health advocates into public housing projects and senior citizen buildings in medically underserved areas of Essex County. Baseline medical supplies and access to computer databases and scheduling systems will be provided to allow appropriate access to alternative and more appropriate methods of entering the health care system via primary care and not the more costly Emergency Department.
Amount Requested: $789,000
Transition to Adulthood Community Assistance Project
MMontclair Neighborhood Development Corporation
Montclair, NJ
The funding will be used for the establishment of one lead agency responsible for providing low-income children with opportunities to participate in local recreational and cultural activities. The children who receive merit scholarships to participate in the activities will be required to participate in life skill training and counseling.
Amount Requested: $357,000
Institute for Sustainability Studies
Montclair State University
Montclair, NJ
The requested funds will be used for lab technology and equipment needed to research sustainable development and green technologies. Research issues considered by the ISS will include making urban infrastructure more energy efficient, expanding port and intermodal transportation systems in an environmentally friendly way, and improving our understanding of ecosystem processes and effective ecosystem management.
Amount Requested: $500,000
Character Education Program
Montclair State University
Montclair, NJ
The funds will be used for a character education program to be carried out in conjunction with Scholastic's Weekly Reader in NJ public elementary and middle schools. The project will focus on at-risk urban elementary and middle school students, and will include a Web-based character education curriculum and classroom-ready character education resources to teach important lessons about respectful and ethical behavior, personal responsibility, tolerance, leadership, teamwork and sportsmanship. The Web-based curriculum will be augmented with professional development workshops for teachers, as well as events for students and parents.
Amount Requested: $200,000
Help in Hard Times
New Jersey 2-1-1 Partnership
Paramus, NJ
The requested funds will be used to support 24/7 information and referral services to NJ residents whose unemployment benefits may be exhausted. The funding will be used to add two staff and one volunteer position specializing in building resources and answering calls for the newly unemployed and in anticipation of those whose unemployment benefits may be exhausted in the coming year. Support is also being requested to update and add to an existing resource database of over 15,000 services, resource pages and NJ 2-1-1's web applications that break down barriers to accessible transportation, food and other safety net services.
Amount Requested: $190,000
Prevention for At-Risk Kids Program
Main St. Counseling Center
West Orange, NJ
The goal with this program is to provide at-risk youth with access to clinical care that will address the underlying socioemotional issues that lead to self-destructing behaviors such as depression/suicide, gang activity and obesity. The program will also educate parents and teachers on the signs for these issues and how to address them.
Amount Requested: $65,000
Community and Urban Science Enrichment Program (CAUSE)
New Jersey Academy for Aquatic Sciences
Camden, NJ
The CAUSE Program works intensively with 35-45 teens who attend public schools in the City of Camden to keep them in school until they graduate. The teens learn about positive life choices that will ensure their future includes higher education and professional careers. Those teens work with up to 280 younger children in after school science clubs and summer science camps, mentoring and building relationships that live on well past graduation. For the past five years, CAUSE teens have a 100% graduation rate and 100% of them are attending college.
Amount Requested: $100,000
Restoration of Critical Afterschool Programs
New Jersey After 3, Inc.
New Brunswick, NJ
The funding will pay for the salaries of approximately 1,200 afterschool educators, as well the costs of materials and supplies associated with the implementation of New Jersey After 3's research-based program model. New Jersey After 3 expands learning time by 44% in 115 schools across New Jersey keeping over 12,000 kids safe, improving student achievement in over 100 public schools, and supporting thousands of parents to that they can retain fulltime jobs.
Amount Requested: $1,000,000
NJ Veterans Educational Transition Services Centers (VETS)
New Jersey Association of State Colleges and Universities
Trenton, NJ
The requested funds will be used to establish three Regional Veterans Education Transition Service centers to support the distinct needs of returning Iraq and Afghanistan veterans in New Jersey. The regional centers will provide an integrated support infrastructure for college bound or degree seeking veterans including education, career, health counseling, as well as resource referral and peer mentoring.
Amount Requested: $500,000
Clinical Research Center
New Jersey Center for Tourette Syndrome
Somerville, NJ
The funding will be used to construct a 10,000 sq. ft. Clinical Research Center at Rutgers University's Livingston Campus to conduct basic and clinical research on the causes and progression of Tourette Syndrome and related disorders which affect 1 in every 200 children -- 28,000 in New Jersey alone and thousands more throughout the U.S.
Amount Requested: $3,000,000
Statewide Health Services Career Ladder Project
New Jersey Division on Women
Trenton, NJ
The funding will be used to create a statewide health services career ladder collaborative for low income, minority, and urban women, women veterans, and displaced homemakers. This will be done by coordinating separate programs and providing funds to establish classroom and practical training with local community care facilities, nursing homes, hospitals, and NJ Colleges and Universities that have Home Health Aide, Certified Nurse's Aide, Licensed Practical Nurse and Registered Nurse programs to provide eligible women an opportunity to begin or graduate up through a health services career ladder that will ultimately provide employment.
Amount Requested: $1,050,000
Vision Rehabilitation for Older Adults
New Jersey Foundation for the Blind
Denville, NJ
The requested funds will be used to deliver a comprehensive vision rehabilitation program to low income adults and seniors who have become blind or vision impaired. The funding will support key areas of building operations, program supplies, and pay salaries of staff and faculty who provide vision rehabilitation training, wellness activities, and mental health support so that vision impaired adults can live independently, avoid falls and injuries, experience fewer symptoms of depression, and enjoy increased access to healthy community activities.
Amount Requested: $467,700
New Jersey HOBY Leadership Seminar
New Jersey Hugh O'Brian Youth Leadership
Morristown, NJ
The funding will be used to operate a seminar benefiting 250 or more high school students from high schools throughout the state. The students, recognized in their schools as outstanding leaders, will learn team-building and leadership development skills in an environment which emphasizes volunteering and civic responsibility.
Amount Requested: $50,000
Expansion of NJPAC Arts Education Programs
New Jersey Performing Arts Center
Newark, NJ
The requested funds will be used to expand NJPAC's SchoolTime and FamilyTime arts education program in underserved urban communities. These programs provide students, educators and families with culturally-diverse performances and provide detailed teacher resource guides for in-classroom follow-up which is essential to developing the students' creative expression and cross-cultural understanding. NJPAC will also offer specially-designed onsite workshops and educational materials to Newark Public Schools, the Jersey City School District and community-based organizations that serve at-risk fathers and their families in transition.
Amount Requested: $400,000
New Jersey Works: Partnership between Public Libraries and One-Stop Career Centers
New Jersey State Library
Trenton, NJ
The requested funding will be used to map the government and community resources available statewide for job seekers and small businesses by county and to train library staff to assist residents with unemployment and other government forms. The program will expand the services of QandANJ.org which is an existing 24/7 web-based service that allows an individual to connect online with a professional librarian, by adding a New Jersey Works component that will also be linked on the home page of every One-Stop Career Center in New Jersey.
Amount Requested: $500,000
Digital Bridge to Literacy
New Jersey Talking Book and Braille Center
Trenton, NJ
The requested funds will be used to connect New Jersey's wounded and disabled veterans to digital talking book machines, talking books and assistive technologies that will help keep them connected to NJ VA resources critical to their vocational rehabilitation and training activities. These resources also increase employability and education.
Amount Requested: $150,000
Integrated Efficiency Program
Newark Children's Hospital
Newark, NJ
The funding will be used for the purchase and application of effective and proven electronic record technologies. This will improve efficiency, saving valuable hospital resources and improving safety and health of childhood cancer patients.
Amount Requested: $3,000,000
One-Stop Veterans Services Center
Ocean County College
Toms River, NJ
The requested funds will be used to bring campus and community veterans services to one location at the Veterans Services Center. The Center will increase access to services by creating a network of county and state organizations and resources that are currently fragmented. Initiating new services and expanding current services will create a web of support for veterans seeking a better quality of life through education.
Amount Requested: $98,000
Homeland Security Education Center
Ocean County College
Toms River, NJ
The requested funds will be used to create a Homeland Security Education Center offering multiple degree options and professional development. An off-site Homeland Security Training Center will be established to augment core curriculum with real world experiences. Partnerships with state law enforcement and universities will extend the reach of the project to professional development and upper level degree options.
Amount Requested: $446,000
Radiology Equipment for OLLMC
Our Lady of Lourdes Medical Center
Camden, NJ
The requested funds will be used to purchase radiology equipment to improve Our Lady of Lourdes Medical Center's diagnostic capacity for medically underserved residents in Camden.
Amount Requested: $1,700,000
Backup Generator Project
Palisades Medical Center
North Bergen, NJ
The requested funds will be used to install a new electrical generator at Palisades Medical Center. This generator will help to ensure that critical hospital services requiring electrical power will remain available in the event of a power outage, natural disaster or other emergency.
Amount Requested: $411,000
CT Scan Installation Project
Palisades Medical Center
North Bergen, NJ
The requested funds will be used to install a new CT Scanner that will help to alleviate bottlenecks during periods of peak demand.
Amount Requested: $610,500
Interactive Patient Information Project
Palisades Medical Center
North Bergen, NJ
This project will employ interactive communications technology to help PMC provide linguistically appropriate and culturally sensitive healthcare to a predominantly lower-income, largely Hispanic patient population having limited English language skills. This will be achieved by installing a menu-driven Interactive Patient System throughout PMC's inpatient facilities. The system will provide patients with information, education, and communications resources in both English and Spanish.
Amount Requested: $565,500
Health Information Exchange Project
Planned Parenthood Affiliates of New Jersey
Trenton, NJ
The requested funding will be used to upgrade the health centers' medical management technology and to facilitate the use of electronic health records. The new system will allow for enhanced patient care.
Amount Requested: $669,447
REAL (Realistic Education About Life) Program
Planned Parenthood of Metropolitan New Jersey
Newark, NJ
The REAL program will provide developmentally appropriate, accurate, comprehensive family life education to Newark Public School Students. The youth in Newark continue to lead New Jersey's cities in both births to teens and sexually transmitted infections. The Family Life Institute of PPMNJ will deliver a program to reduce teen pregnancy and provide students with information, skills, understanding and self-confidence.
Amount Requested: $250,000
Practice Management System Phase One
Planned Parenthood of Metropolitan NJ
Newark, NJ
The requested funds will be used to purchase and implement a practice management system needed for interfacing with an electronic health records system. By implementing a modern practice manage system, PPMNJ will improve efficiency in patient services and reduce administrative time.
Amount Requested: $153,036
Biology Laboratory Equipment
Ramapo College of New Jersey
Mahwah, NJ
The funding will be used to purchase and install scientific equipment, fume hoods, lab benches and lab cabinetry for an updated biology laboratory. The renovation will better prepare students for graduate and professional programs and to enter careers in research, medicine, dentistry, environmental services, materials development and high technology.
Amount Requested: $475,000
New Worker Job Development Center
Respond, Inc
Camden, NJ
Funding will support operations at the New Worker Job Development Center (NWJDC) program and provide vocational skills development for up to 220 Camden City residents, in career fields that are realistic for immediate employment opportunities. The NWJDC targets at-risk youth and adults who are unemployed, underemployed or who are going through the Board of Social Services for skills development.
Amount Requested: $439,008
Ridgefield School District Science Lab Project
Ridgefield Public School District
Ridgefield, NJ
The purpose of this request is to outfit the science labs with classroom equipment including networked computers, digital simulations and smart boards. The project will provide educational services directly to 720 high school students and support a mentoring/internship program with local medical facilities and other employers.
Amount Requested: $300,000
Patient Navigator Expansion and Enhancement
Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital at Hamilton
Hamilton, NJ
The funding will be used to provide breast cancer and congestive heart failure patients several services to enable them to manage the physical, emotional and financial aspects of their conditions. The patient navigator will provide education on the disease, treatment options, support services, financial assistance programs, information about clinical trials, and daily assistance in getting patients in front of the right team of medical specialists.
Amount Requested: $500,000
Rutgers Camden Children's Initiative
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey at Camden
Camden, NJ
The requested funds will be used to integrate the University's expertise in childhood development at the Center for Children and Childhood Studies and public affairs at the Walter Rand Institute into a comprehensive set of programs to benefit children and young people. This program promotes the University as the anchor for programs to enable Camden's children to have realistic expectations concerning access to jobs and higher education in a revitalized city. The University will develop policies to assist leaders in addressing and solving real world problems that confront children as they assess their future.
Amount Requested: $1,000,000
NJ Public School Teacher Safety Initiative
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
New Brunswick, NJ
The requested funds will be used for a comprehensive assessment of K-12 teachers' risk of student violence in New Jersey schools. Additionally, the project will provide outreach services such as teacher training, mentorship/support services and intervention specifically designed to reduce violence towards teachers. Through these programs, the project seeks to improve overall professional functioning in the classroom, and in turn, increase student academic outcome.
Amount Requested: $712,500
Center for the Study of Veterans in Higher Education
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
New Brunswick, NJ
The Center will develop services and programs to address the issues that confront veterans entering or continuing in higher education and the workforce, with a particular focus on post-traumatic stress, traumatic brain injury, and substance abuse. The Center will also disseminate its research findings to inform public policy and contribute to the development of scalable programs and services for veterans across the country.
Amount Requested: $1,000,000
New Jersey Health Care Innovation Center
Saint Barnabas Health Care System Foundation
West Orange, NJ
The Saint Barnabas Health Care System (SBHCS) and the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) co-developed the New Jersey Health Care Innovation Center (NJHCIC) for the purpose of improving the quality, safety, and cost effectiveness of health care delivery.
Amount Requested: $710,000
Improving Access to Emergency Care
Saint Barnabas Medical Center
Livingston, NJ
The funds will be used for construction to enlarge and expand the Fast Track treatment area within the Saint Barnabas Medical Center Emergency Department. Expanded Fast Track service will improve access to timely, quality emergency care for the residents of Essex, Morris, and Union counties. This project will enable Saint Barnabas Medical Center to care for more than 11,200 additional "treat and release" emergency patients annually over time.
Amount Requested: $500,000
Enhancing Patient Safety through Surgical Technology
Saint Clare's Hospital Inc
Denville, NJ
Funding will be used to purchase more cost effective, green surgical technology for the operating room suites at Saint Clare's Dover General Facility. The objective is to enhance patient safety and improve quality of care for at least 3,000 individuals a year who access Dover General for their surgery needs.
Amount Requested: $515,000
Equipment Purchases for Saint Michael's Medical Center
Saint Michael's Medical Center
Newark, NJ
TSaint Michael's Medical Center is partnering with Bloomfield College to establish a Family Health Center to provide primary care to better serve area residents. The requested funds will be used to purchase a digital radiography unit and a CT scanner for this Center.
Amount Requested: $1,397,500
Family Health Series & Childhood Obesity Project
Save Latin America
Union City, NJ
The requested funds will be used to provide free medical screenings to medically underserved minorities and to help fight childhood obesity. The Family Health Programs will help to reduce disparities in the health care available to minorities by planning, coordinating and implementing a community health event where uninsured low income residents can access an array of health and social services information; obtain free health and mental health screenings; and increase their knowledge on chronic diseases, prevention, available treatments, and local health providers.
Amount Requested: $250,000
Newark School District Partnership Zone
Seton Hall University
South Orange, NJ
The Academy will create a District Partnership Zone in Newark, led by Seton Hall's Academy for Urban School Transformation with its partners the Newark Public School district (NPS) and the Newark Teacher's Union (NTU). Funding would be used for governance reform, needs assessments, intensive and ongoing professional development and leadership training, and rigorous quantitative analysis and evaluation of the activities undertaken.
Amount Requested: $1,000,000
Titans for Today
Shiloh Economic & Entrepreneurial Lifelong Development Corporation
Plainfield, NJ
Funding will be used for an after-school program for at-risk youth that will help to increase math and literacy skills while reducing the likelihood of criminal activity, teen pregnancy and anti-social behavior.
Amount Requested: $248,585
Pediatric Hybrid Unit
Shore Memorial Hospital
Somers Point, NJ
The requested funds will be used to provide care for pediatric patients and families in a family centered space which combines inpatient and emergency pediatric centered care. This will preserve the Pediatric Inpatient program at Shore Memorial Hospital through innovation, creativity and collaboration in the creation of this unique model of care delivery.
Amount Requested: $500,000
Sierra House Transitional Program
Sierra House
East Orange, NJ
The goals of the program are to teach and prepare young women and young mothers who may be homeless, runaway youth, or persons aging out of the foster care system to live independently within the community at large.
Amount Requested: $80,000
SingleStop USA in New Jersey
SingleStop USA
New York, NY
The requested funds will be used to support Single Stop sites in New Jersey that provide benefits counseling, tax preparation, legal services and financial counseling to low-income families, allowing Single Stop to provide an additional 800-1,000 households in New Jersey with comprehensive services.
Amount Requested: $300,000
Emergency Room and Acute Care Expansion
Solaris Health System-JFK Medical Center
Edison, NJ
Funding will allow the JFK Medical Center to construct a new four story Patient Care Pavilion that will encompass a state of the art Emergency Department, Pediatric Emergency Department, Patient Arrival Center, new private inpatient rooms, non-clinical space to support radiology, sterile supplies, materials management, food service, and the infrastructure for additional future patient care space.
Amount Requested: $500,000
eSchool Initiative
Somerset Hills School District
Bernardsville, NJ
Funding will be used to install a district-wide wireless network along with the necessary hardware and software to create an operational distance-learning program. Part of the request will also be for Netbook Carts for the Middle School, as well as the required materials for a virtual high school which will accommodate students who are home schooled or out of district.
Amount Requested: $233,347
Hogan Neuroscience Pavilion at SMC
Somerset Medical Center
Somerville, NJ
The funding will be used to renovate 11,000 square-feet of existing space on the fifth floor of the medical center and for equipment needed to establish the Hogan Neuroscience Pavilion. This will allow Somerset Medical Center to incorporate the latest advances in emergency medicine, neurology, radiology, and rehabilitation to provide comprehensive diagnostic and therapeutic care for stroke patients within a self-contained unit.
Amount Requested: $1,500,000
Advanced Glaucoma Care
South Jersey Eye Center
Camden, NJ
Funding will be used to purchase highly advanced technological equipment to increase capabilities to detect and treat glaucoma, diabetic eye disease and macular degeneration. In addition, special equipment will be used to deliver glaucoma screenings to neighborhood sites in Camden.
Amount Requested: $200,000
Care Management Health Information Exchange
St. Francis Medical Center
Trenton, NJ
Funding will allow procurement of a fully integrated web-based system that will enhance the exchange of patient data with other providers in order to better coordinate care, manage chronic conditions, and reduce avoidable visits to emergency departments.
Amount Requested: $500,000
MR CHAMMP - Mitigating Risk - Cardiac Health Assessment
St. Joseph's Regional Medical Center
Paterson, NJ
The objective is to provide cardiovascular risk education and hypertension screening throughout Passaic County in collaboration with pre-existing organizations including: Public Health Department; community and faith-based organizations; local schools; institutes of higher learning; employers; government agencies and the St. Joseph's Healthcare System. Funding will be used to help support salaries of health professionals and purchase supplies including educational materials, blood pressure machines, and data collection forms.
Amount Requested: $165,200
Pediatric Concussion Program
St. Joseph's Regional Medical Center
Paterson, NJ
This project will expand the infrastructure at St. Joseph's to enhance services offered to victims of pediatric Traumatic Brain Injury. The funding would support a helipad, capable of landing military helicopters, pediatric specific operating rooms, and specially designated rehabilitation space.
Amount Requested: $1,000,000
Bi-fuel Conversion for Emergency Electrical Generator
St. Joseph's Wayne Hospital Foundation
Wayne, NJ
The requested funds will be used to upgrade the current electrical generator system to a two fuel system that will extend the hours that the generator can function in the case of a natural or manmade emergency. The upgrade will connect the hospital's generator to a natural gas supply in addition to their diesel supply thus increasing the length of time they can sustain themselves.
Amount Requested: $385,000
Surgical System Purchase
St. Mary's Hospital
Passaic, NJ
The requested funding will be used to purchase and maintain a "da Vinci" robotic surgical system. It will provide a safer, less invasive option for prostatectomies, cardiac valve repair, and gynecologic surgical procedures. The equipment will facilitate complex surgery using a minimally invasive approach, thereby improving patient comfort and speeding recovery.
Amount Requested: $1,800,000
Endoscopy Facility
St. Mary's Hospital
Passaic, NJ
The requested funds will be used to construct a new Endoscopy Facility to prevent and treat colorectal cancer, a leading cause of death in the Passaic community. The Facility will enable SMH to provide enhanced and improved service to over 100,000 area residents many of whom are at risk of developing serious colorectal illness.
Amount Requested: $1,500,000
Expanding Capacity and Improving Nursing Education
St. Peter's College
Jersey City, NJ
The requested funds will be used to support three levels of nursing education that will address the critical nursing shortage, improve patient outcomes, and assist with meeting healthcare education and economic development needs of the region. The project involves the establishment of a simulation lab in Englewood Cliffs, the upgrade and expansion of existing equipment in the lab in Jersey City, and training for all nursing faculty.
Amount Requested: $1,100,000
Expansion of Community Health Services
St. Peter's Healthcare System
New Brunswick, NJ
This funding will be used for the renovation and expansion of the How Lane facility including additional exam rooms for pediatric, adult and women's health care and a redesign of the waiting room/registration area. The expansion will allow create better access to health care, create jobs, and increase hours of operation to evenings and weekends.
Amount Requested: $1,000,000
Family to Family Health Information Center
Statewide Parent Advocacy Network of New Jersey
Newark, NJ
The Family to Family Health Information Center provides families of children with special healthcare and mental health needs with information, training, and advocacy to secure appropriate services for their children. It will help children with special needs get the health services they need and allow them to be able to live at home, in their communities, instead of institutions.
Amount Requested: $200,000
Center for Children and Adults with Neurological Impairments
The Center for Neurological and Neurodevelopmental Health II
Voorhees, NJ
The requested funds will be used for the creation of a Specialty Center to sustain persons with Neurological impairments in their communities. Individuals will be enrolled into a Specialty Care Medical Home (SCMH) where their neurological, neuropsychiatric and medical needs will be coordinated and managed across their lifespan, in one location, using advanced technologies. The SCMH model will avoid fragmentation of services, allowing for continuity of care, better health outcomes, and optimization of quality of life.
Amount Requested: $1,500,000
Hearing Assessment and Treatment for Children in New Jersey
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Philadelphia, PA
The funding will be used at the Princeton, Voorhees and Atlantic County Specialty Care offices to help assess and treat hearing loss in children. In addition to equipment, including ear molds, hearing aids and FM systems would be loaned in lieu of purchase.
Amount Requested: $287,599
The Urban Teacher Recruitment, Preparation, and Retention Program at TCNJ
The College of New Jersey
Ewing, NJ
The funding will be used to recruit, prepare, and offer continuing mentorship to new teachers who are specifically interested in teaching in urban areas. The goal of the program is to increase student achievement by recruiting, preparing and supporting teachers.
Amount Requested: $163,323
Equipment for TCNJ's School of Engineering
The College of New Jersey
Ewing, NJ
The funding will be used for modernization of TCNJ's School of Engineering Manufacturing Center through the purchase of a multi-axis computer controlled milling machine and a computer controlled lathe. The equipment will support undergraduate engineering students and the K-12 teachers and students in the areas of STEM education.
Amount Requested: $280,000
NMR Spectrometer for Training and Research at TCNJ
The College of New Jersey
Ewing, NJ
The funding will be used to acquire a medium-field (400 MHz) Nuclear Magnetic Resonance spectrometer to perform structural characterization of organic, inorganic and biological materials. This will support the undergraduate education and research efforts of the Department of Chemistry, with additional usage by the Department of Biology.
Amount Requested: $415,000
Enhanced Therapy and Vocational Training Program
School for Children with Hidden Intelligence
Lakewood, NJ
SCHI's Enhanced Therapy and Vocational Training Programs provide multiply handicapped children additional therapy and transitioning services vital to helping them grow and function. This will lead to improved healthcare for over 300 of New Jersey's severely disabled and underprivileged children and young adults.
Amount Requested: $350,000
Center 0-3 daycare
Special Children Center
Lakewood, NJ
The Special Children's newest expansion of services will be a childcare program for infants and toddlers ages zero to three, serving Ocean and Monmouth Counties. The funding will be used to provide daycare programs for low income families with special needs such as Autism, Down Syndrome, Cerebral Palsy and medically fragile children who require oxygen, suctioning and constant surveillance. The Center is determined to bring its high quality services to help fill that void and service the needs of this underprivileged population, of which 80 percent are low income.
Amount Requested: $350,000
Regional Health Policy and Childhood Obesity
Thomas Edison State College
Trenton, NJ
The John S. Watson Institute of Public Policy Institute proposes to identify obstacles to addressing childhood obesity in New Jersey communities. Particular attention will be given to economic diversity within communities and cultural competency among organizations. Projects that are currently successful will be used as best practice models for local replication.
Amount Requested: $500,000
Mobile Learning Initiative
Thomas Edison State College
Trenton, NJ
Funding will be used to develop approximately 87 courses via flash drives and other removable storage devices, such as SD cards, iPods, smartphones or any other device that can be identified as removable storage by a host computer. This will enable active duty military, wounded veterans and large numbers of adult students who have unreliable Internet access to participate in online courses in a totally offline environment. The next generation of courses will offer much of the same functionality of online courses, but without the need for a constant Internet connection.
Amount Requested: $1,000,000
Post Master's Nurse Educator Certificate Program
Thomas Edison State College
Trenton, NJ
Thomas Edison State College seeks to develop a Bachelors of Nursing (BSN) degree to Master of Nursing (MSN) degree with a school nurse certificate program. The design of the proposed program will allow students to progress from BSN to MSN, as nine credits in the BSN program are offered at the graduate level. It is anticipated that the post baccalaureate certificate will encourage nurses to keep going to the master's degree.
Amount Requested: $1,000,000
Student Information System
Trenton Board of Education
Trenton, NJ
The funding will be used for the purchase of a web-based student information system that will provide the ability to analyze student data, house a parent portal, and import/export student information to the state. The use of an upgraded data system will provide immediate feedback to teachers about district and school assessments that can be used to guide instructional practice and assist teachers in targeting students for rapid interventions. Because the system will house a parent portal, parents will have access to student information and be able to communicate with school staff in meaningful ways about student success.
Amount Requested: $400,000
Trinitas Psychiatric Electronic Medical Records
Trinitas Health Foundation
Elizabeth, NJ
Funding will be used to convert the Trinitas Behavioral Health Outpatient Department's patient files to electronic medical records. It will dramatically improve care by replacing a fragmented paper records system with a system that gives each clinician along the continuum a comprehensive medical and psychiatric profile. The new system will provide better case management services, overcome linguistic and cultural barriers, identify at-risk patients and guard against medication errors.
Amount Requested: $864,351
Turnaround for Children in Orange
Turnaround for Children
New York, NY
The requested funds will be used to support implementation of the Turnaround for Children school turn-around intervention model in Orange schools. The program will provide training to school administrators and staff in high-need under-performing Orange schools, focusing on systems development and strategies to address the developmental, behavioral and academic challenges of children living in poverty.
Amount Requested: $600,000
Northern NJ Aging-in-Place Program
UJA Federation of Northern NJ
Paramus, NJ
The proposed aging-in-place program seeks to build on the Naturally Occurring Retirement Community (NORC) Supportive Services model and expand those services by providing them in a non-NORC setting. This project intends to help seniors to age at home in accordance with their wishes, even as they grow frail, and to help the community's providers to keep pace with the need for more responsive services and the rising costs associated with a rapidly expanding client base.
Amount Requested: $450,000
JCRC Literacy Project
UJA Federation of Northern NJ
Paramus, NJ
The JCRC Literacy Project is a literacy program for at-risk Kindergarteners to 3rd graders that uses volunteer mentors as "Reading Buddies." The program establishes an early intervention program where the volunteers not only help to raise the literacy level of the students, but also serve as role models who instill a love of reading in their mentees. The program can also facilitate the trouble-shooting of problems that may be overlooked in the classroom setting.
Amount Requested: $50,000
Human Simulation Center
University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey - Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
New Brunswick, NJ
The Human Simulation Center will develop simulation-based medical training techniques that will improve patient safety, better ensure provider competency, reduce health care costs, and enhance public health preparedness. Simulation-based training allows for comprehensive and realistic training until a student has mastered the information and without harming patients.
Amount Requested: $568,500
Co-Morbid Disorders among the Serious Mentally Ill
University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey - School of Health Related Professions
Scotch Plains, NJ
Debilitating medical disorders and premature death among persons with serious mental illness is very high and worsening; such individuals die 25 years sooner than the general population. The requested funding will be used to design, employ, and test a model of primary care services integrated within behavioral health services, a multi-disciplinary set of interventions, and a "Wellness Coach" model of integrated mental and physical health care for the seriously mentally ill.
Amount Requested: $200,000
Center for Interprofessional Teaching and Learning
University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey - School of Osteopathic Medicine
Stratford, NJ
The project will facilitate collaboration between faculty and students at six schools on the Stratford Campus. Health professionals in medicine, dentistry, biomedical sciences, public health, nursing, and the full range of allied health professions will improve interdisciplinary, integrative care. Funding will be used to create and/or expand peer tutoring programs, weekly group reviews, individual learning consultations, learning skills workshops, prep courses for licensing exams, a summer program for new students, and faculty development programs. The program will lead to improved health outcomes in Southern New Jersey.
Amount Requested: $250,000
Disparity in Diagnosis of Children with Autism
University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey - The Autism Center at NJ Medical School
Newark, NJ
Early identification and intervention improves long term outcomes for children with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD), leading to improved quality of life and greater productivity for affected individuals and providing cost savings to the health care system. This project will ensure that minority children in Newark with ASD are properly identified and receive timely medical, therapeutic and educational interventions.
Amount Requested: $395,564
Intergenerational Health & Education Community Initiative
Union Chapel Community Development Corporation
Newark, NJ
Funds will be used to expand senior and youth services and promote intergenerational integration of wellness programs. This project seeks to reduce obesity and high blood pressure statistics among all age groups through the promotion of regular physical activity and healthier dietary choices.
Amount Requested: $400,000
Union County College Career Transitions Service
Union County College
Cranford, NJ
Union County College proposes to expand its career preparation programs by creating a Career Transitions Service. This Service will refine assessment, counseling, instructional, and job-placement tools that UCC has developed for workers in key local industries such as transportation, logistics, distribution, eldercare, retail/customer service, and "green" jobs. Staff will be prepared to provide educational and career assessments and counseling, instruction in basic skills and occupational skills, and job placement services to a minimum of 400 job seekers.
Amount Requested: $2,220,000
Nursing and Allied Health
Union County College
Cranford, NJ
Union County College seeks support for the recruitment, retention, and graduation of Practical Nursing students, limited English proficient students into Allied Health careers, and career advisement and outreach for unemployed workers seeking to make a transition into a health career. Union County College will introduce new initiatives and reinforce ongoing efforts to identify, educate, and retain potential students who are seeking gainful employment in the health care field.
Amount Requested: $1,515,500
Promoting Student Success: College and Career Prep
Union County College
Cranford, NJ
The funding will be used to link students with basic skills needs (reading, writing, math) to select short-term associate degree or certificate programs, provide intensive support, and then assist with job placement. A significant percentage of first time full time students begin their academic experience at UCC in basic skills courses however many of these students do not progress to completing their studies and obtaining a job. This proposed project seeks to address this gap.
Amount Requested: $1,275,000
UJC MetroWest NJ LIVE Aging in Place Initiative
United Jewish Communities of MetroWest NJ
Whippany, NJ
The United Jewish Communities of MetroWest NJ (UJC) LIVE (Lifelong Involvement for Vital Elders) Aging in Place Initiative aims to create a model program in western Essex County NJ. LIVE is an innovative approach that enables older adults to age in place safely with a higher quality of life, engages seniors as valued members of the community; and empowers the community to identify and address its own problems. This project will create a regional aging in place initiative that will expand UJC's currently existing programs to nearby communities with a concentration of older adults interested in becoming more elder-friendly.
Amount Requested: $400,000
PREP program
Urban League of Hudson County
Jersey City, NJ
Funding will be used to provide a college readiness program for 200 low income families and their children in Hudson County. Participation in "PREP" will enable parents to assist their children with effective, early educational and post secondary planning and adherence to academic and social pathways required for the achievement of college and other post secondary credentials. For at risk youth participation in PREP will decrease the academic achievement gap, increase high school graduation rates and increase the rate of college attendance.
Amount Requested: $400,000
Grandparents Again Parenting (GAP)
Urban League of Hudson County
Jersey City, NJ
More than 3,653 grandparents in Jersey City are responsible for providing care to their own grandchildren however there are no formal programs in Hudson County dedicated to the unique needs of grandparents who are parenting. THE GAP program will provide critically important services to grandparents including respite care, direct and referral services, resources directories in multiple languages, support meeting services, access to child care services, case management and grandparent/child activities. These services will enable the grandparents to continue to raise their grandchildren ensuring that these children don't enter the child welfare system.
Amount Requested: $400,000
Rapid Room Sterilization to Reduce the Incidence of Nosocomial Infections
Valley Hospital
Ridgewood, NJ
This funding would assist the hospital in the purchase of six automated UV radiation devices, designed to efficiently sterilize hospital rooms. The equipment would reduce Methicillin Resistant Staphlococcus aureus (MSRA) and other drug resistant forms of bacteria by approximately 89 percent, decreasing nosocomial, or hospital-acquired, infections and increasing the level of patient safety.
Amount Requested: $375,000
Women's Heart Health Program
Valley Hospital
Ridgewood, NJ
The funding will be used to hire additional staff, create more space in the hospital and increase dissemination of information on the Women's Heart Health Program. The program will also aid in the provision of complementary education and screenings. This will help to educate women in both the prevention and treatment of heart disease.
Amount Requested: $500,000
Pediatric Obesity Outreach Program
Virtua Hospital - The John M. Tedeschi Pediatric Institute
Camden, NJ
Funding will be used to establish an innovative outreach and education program to combat the public health crisis of childhood obesity in Camden. The Pediatric Obesity Outreach Program will focus on addressing medical issues and lifestyle patterns that exacerbate the prevalence of pediatric obesity.
Amount Requested: $1,039,864
Cardiac Telehealth Initiative
Visiting Nurse Association of Central Jersey
Red Bank, NJ
The funding will be used to purchase Teleheath Life Center kiosks which will be placed in senior residential housing and communities. These devices will enable health care professionals to remotely monitor the condition of older adults living with congestive heart failure and identify and treat early symptoms that could otherwise result in hospitalization. The goal is to assist older adults who suffer from CHF to successfully manage their disease from their home environment and avoid unnecessary hospitalization.
Amount Requested: $300,000
9/11 Living Memorial Digital Archive
Voices of September 11th
New Brunswick, NJ
It is critical to preserve in perpetuity the lives and the stories of 9/11 through the voices of those who survived. The 9/11 Living Memorial digital archive will provide a unique snapshot of that day, extending our understanding of 9/11 far beyond the pages of history books by creating a personal connection with, and real understanding of, the nation's response to the worst attack ever to take place on native soil. VOICES is reaching out to all 9/11 family members plus survivors, first responders, organizations and corporations to document their stories and digitize tangible items such as missing person posters, memorials and photos of workplaces.
Amount Requested: $500,000
Alternative Fuel Education Program
West New York Board of Education
West New York, NJ
The West New York BOE will enhance its burgeoning Alternative Fuel Education Program to include solar energy and plant-based fuels. The program currently teaches auto shop students to convert traditional gasoline fueled vehicles to electric power and to service electric cars while they concurrently study alternative fuel technologies in science class. The proposed enhancement of the program will include study and testing of solar panels as a way to charge a vehicle, and the study of how plants can be used to create bio-diesel and ethanol fuels.
Amount Requested: $200,000
Center for Critical Languages and World Regions
William Paterson University
Wayne, NJ
The requested funding will be used to expand curriculum for the teaching of languages critical to national security. This project fulfills an important federal priority to train students in languages in world regions vital to U.S. strategic interests, specifically, Asia, the Middle East and Islamic World, and Europe and Eurasia.
Amount Requested: $395,000
Wynona's House Service Delivery Initiative
Wynona's House
Newark, NJ
The funding will be used for forensic video interviewing and to support the development of a family advocacy program. The Center will implement a nationally recognized curriculum to educate caregivers about the dynamics of sexual abuse, the role of the legal system, and how to access support services such as counseling and safety net programs.
Amount Requested: $216,902
School's Out at Camp Program
YMCA Camp Ockanickon
Medford, NJ
This program will ensure that all youth enrolled will have access to daily, quality opportunities for physical activity, nutrition education and access to healthy foods. The program will impact approximately 400 students, ages 5-14, annually. Each of these students will receive a curriculum designed to improve academic performance, self-esteem, personal responsibility and community involvement, and address childhood obesity.
Amount Requested: $500,000
After School Program Expansion
YMWCA of Newark and Vicinity
Newark, NJ
The YMWCA of Newark and Vicinity will launch an expansion of the current After School Program to ensure that every year at least 100 children from their shelter will gain support for academic efforts, improve nutritional habits, and increase physical fitness. The children served by this initiative will be homeless elementary and middle school children from the Emergency Residence Program
Amount Requested: $230,000
Your ReSource
Your ReSource, Inc.
Ewing, NJ
Your ReSource has developed a program that provides quality refurbished home medical equipment such as wheelchairs, walkers, canes, and crutches to the uninsured, the underinsured, the underserved and those who cannot afford co-pays or out of pocket expenses. This will give individuals, families and caregivers easy access to reconditioned medical equipment that will greatly improve their mobility, safety, independence and quality of life. Funding will be used to hire and train local residents for this program.
Amount Requested: $500,000
YouthNet Youth Enrichment
YouthNet
Maplewood, NJ
YouthNet, working in partnership with the South Orange-Maplewood School Board, Maplewood, South Orange, Essex County College, local businesses, organizations and non-profits, proposes to implement an afterschool program for identified at-risk middle school students (600) and a mentoring program for high school students (100) with a focus on "green" opportunities. The middle school program will include enrichment programs such as academics, sports, arts, programs with local police, and environmental projects and activities. High school students will be trained in "green" pursuits and be placed in internships with local "green" businesses.
Amount Requested: $275,000
Domestic Violence Services
YWCA Eastern Union County
Elizabeth, NJ
Funding will be used to expand and leverage additional support for the YWCA of Eastern Union County's domestic violence prevention, intervention and support services, especially for population groups not currently receiving services.
Amount Requested: $400,000
Women's Workforce Development & Child Care
YWCA of Trenton
Trenton, NJ
The funding will be used for the expansion of the Women's Workforce Development program. The project targets the needs of low-income, single mothers in Trenton who are unable to find steady, full-time employment that will accommodate their family care responsibilities.
Amount Requested: $335,000
English as a Second Language Program
YWCA Princeton
Princeton, NJ
The YWCA Princeton has designed an ESL Program that will enable students to obtain and improve their English language skills in order to become employed or obtain better employment, and thus ultimately enhance self-sufficiency. Currently, the program serves 500 students each year from 36 countries around the world, providing students with the language and technology skills they need for the 21st century workplace.
Amount Requested: $85,000
Energy Efficiency Upgrade for Zufall Health Center
Zufall Health Center
Dover, NJ
The funding will support the replacement of a 30+ year old HVAC system which is unable to provide adequate indoor air quality within the Health and Human Services infectious disease criteria. The project will also reduce the site's carbon emissions between 30-45% through the introduction of high efficiency units and enhanced use of natural gas service versus existing oil service.
Amount Requested: $250,000
National Programs
Special Olympics International
Project Unify/Eunice Kennedy Shriver Institutes
The EKS Institutes will establish through Special Olympics, a scholarship, research and training program to advance the field of IDD studies globally, particularly applied research, and provide training and educational opportunities for persons with IDD, advocates and volunteers.
Amount Requested: $17,000,000
Project GRAD
National Organization based in Houston, TX
Project GRAD is a college readiness and scholarship initiative that has programs in 13 states. In New Jersey, the program is based in Newark and reaches approximately 8,000 kids.
Amount Requested: $27,000,000
Reach Out and Read
National Organization based in Boston, MA
Reach Out and Read (ROR) trains doctors and nurses to advise parents about the importance of reading aloud and also gives books to children at pediatric checkups from 6 months to 5 years of age, with a special focus on children growing up in poverty. ROR has 74 locations in New Jersey, distributing 108,504 books to 63,715 children each year.
Amount Requested: $10,000,000
Reading is Fundamental
National Organization based in Washington, DC
Reading is Fundamental (RIF) prepares and motivates children to read by delivering free books and literacy resources to those children and families who need them most. RIF has a program in 341 sites in New Jersey and in 2009 distributed 265,258 books to 75,795 New Jersey students.
Amount Requested: $25,000,000
Teach for America
National Organization based in New York, NY
Teach For America is a program that helps to eliminate educational inequity by training and placing recent college graduates and professionals who commit to teach for two years in urban and rural public schools. This year, a corps of more 119 of the nation's top recent college graduates are working in underserved schools across Newark and Camden to ensure that students facing the challenges of poverty are given the educational opportunities they deserve.
Amount Requested: $50,000,000
National Writing Project
National Organization based in Berkeley, CA
The National Writing Project is a teacher training program that improves student achievement by improving the quality of writing courses in the nation's schools. There are more than 200 NWP sites throughout the country, including three in New Jersey, which train over 100,000 teachers each year.
Amount Requested: $26,200,000
