Two Trenton organizations, Artworks and Isles, will be featured in the 2015 Jersey Give-Back Guide, an online giving portal designed to showcase the State’s most effective non-profits. Artworks is a visual arts center that offers classes, exhibitions and events and Isles is a community development and environmental organization.
Using the Jersey Give-Back Guide’s online Generosity Generator, individuals can choose from four categories- Community, Arts, Environment and Newark- to learn about this year’s 22 recommended non-profits and quickly and easily support them. All donations directly benefit the organizations.
“We believe that art has the power to transform communities,” said Artworks Executive Director Lynn Lemyre, “Our events and programs have provided a community-building bridge between the city and its surrounding suburbs, offering creative outlets and programs for residents as well as attracting people into the city for diverse and uniformly positive arts events.”
“Isles is proud to join 21 other great organizations that reflect New Jersey’s dynamic non-profit sector. We thank the Dodge Foundation and their friends for making it easy to give wisely in New Jersey,” says Isles’ Founder and President, Marty Johnson.
The Jersey Give-Back Guide is a seasonal project of the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, produced in partnership with the Victoria Foundation, Community Foundation of New Jersey and the Council of New Jersey Grantmakers. The featured non-profits were chosen for being extraordinary innovative, collaborative and financially strong.
This is the second year of the Jersey Give-Back Guide, which will be available through mid-January. In 2013, more than 500 people donated a total of $30,000 to the 15 non-profit organizations featured in last year’s Jersey Give Back Guide.
The Jersey Give Back Guide is sponsored by media partners NJ Advance Media and NJ Monthly magazine. Learn more at jerseygivebackguide.org.
