Newark Family Foundation

GrassROOTS Community Foundation (GCF) is a public health and social action organization based in West Orange, NJ. Co-founded by Dr. Janice Johnson Dias and Tariq "Black Thought" Trotter, lead MC of The Roots, GCF aims to mobilize community action and address economic disadvantage. Their mission is to create a world where all girls grow up to be healthy women. GCF focuses on developing, supporting, engaging, advocating, investigating, and giving to various initiatives that cater to different age groups, from Seedlings (1-4 grade) to Roots (adult women). They organize annual events like Let's Move It, Roots Rock Run, R3 Turkey Drive, and Give Thanks. Through their work, GCF aims to empower girls and young women, combat period poverty, and promote community involvement.Generated from the website

Literacy Volunteers of America in Bloomfield Township, NJ is dedicated to providing literacy instruction for adults, enabling them to attain personal, educational, and career goals. They offer basic literacy, English for speakers of other languages (ESOL), and family literacy programs to support individualized and interactive learning. The organization believes in the innate capacity of each adult student to develop intellectually, socially, and emotionally at their own pace and in various environments. By fostering a supportive learning environment through community partnerships, Literacy Volunteers of America strives to create a fully literate community. Generated from the website

Unified Vailsburg Services Organization, also known as UVSO, is a neighborhood-based human services and community development agency founded by local residents in 1972. It is a community of the representatives of various local groups to solve the neighborhood problems of Valisburg in Newark, N.J. The organization serves a daily average of more than 600 Vailsburg residents of all ages through a variety of programs. Its services include meals on wheels, congregate meals, special transportation, health screening and counseling, homemakers and home health aides, crisis intervention and family counseling, and infant, preschool and school-age child care centers. Unified Vailsburg Services Organization also runs a summer day camp and senior citizen center, as well as housing development, community and parent organizing programs.