Choosing the Best Social Media Platforms for Your Business

There’s a certain art to choosing the best social media platforms for your business. It can take research, thought, and introspection on what your business aims to achieve. But finding the rights ones can yield powerful results. Clearbridge Branding Agency offers these three tips for finding the best social media platforms for your business. How […]

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Vet Non-Profit Announces Stimulus Funding for Across the Country

While vaccine distribution efforts bring new hope for economic recovery, millions of Americans, including military-veteran communities, are still reeling from the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. Food insecurity has emerged as a national crisis. Even before the pandemic, 1 in 8 veteran and military households experienced food insecurity. To combat the devastating impact of COVID-19

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Legislation to Provide $15 Million in Aid to Small Businesses and Non-Profits

Gov. Phil Murphy has signed into law A-A5446, which provides $15 million in federal COVID-19 relief aid for small businesses throughout New Jersey. The bill—sponsored by Senators Linda Greenstein and Joseph Lagana and Assembly Members Joann Downey, Andrew Zwicker, and Sterley Stanley—provides aid in the form of grants to small businesses and non-profits in need.

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Legislation to Provide $10 Million in Relief to Child Care Providers

Gov Phil Murphy has signed into law A-5445, which provides $10 million in federal COVID-19 relief aid for child care providers throughout New Jersey. The bill—sponsored by Senators M. Teresa Ruiz and Joseph Lagana and Assembly Members Lisa Swain, Gabriela Mosquera, and Adam Taliaferro—will provide grants to child care providers in need. The bill is

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Murphy Administration Announces $2.5 Million for New Municipal Local Recreation Improvement Grant Program

Recognizing the critical importance of local recreation at this heightened time of need, the New Jersey Department of Community Affairs’ (DCA) Division of Local Government Services (DLGS) announced that applications are now being accepted for a new Local Recreation Improvement Grant Program that is being offered to New Jersey counties, municipalities, and school districts. The

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On Hold for Now, Statewide Tests Coming in Fall

This story is being republished under a special NJ News Commons content-sharing agreement related to COVID-19 coverage. Link to FULL story: njspotlight.com/2021/04/start-strong-statewide-testing-grade-four-through-10-njsla-on-hold/ The Murphy administration has wrapped up its plans to postpone standardized testing for this school year, confirming with districts this week that there will be no state testing this spring and telling them

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More Time Needed on Johnson & Johnson COVID Vaccine: CDC Panel

This story is being republished under a special NJ News Commons content-sharing agreement related to COVID-19 coverage. Link to FULL story: patch.com/new-jersey/newbrunswick/more-time-needed-nj-johnson-johnson-covid-vaccine-cdc-panel The halt on the use of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine because of blood-clot concerns could last another week, a Centers for Disease Control Prevention panel said on Wednesday. New Jersey has

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Join the Action

It’s that time again. We put our calendar of events in order. We’re reaching out to prospective sponsors. Now, we need to get our army of volunteers to make our events and initiatives a reality. You can have the sponsors and you can have a plan of action, but volunteers are the “worker bees” that

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Fithian’s Pen

The journals of Philip Vickers Fithian, the Greenwich-born Revolutionary War chaplain, contain a series of entries that invite a comparison between life in South Jersey and that of Virginia, where Fithian obtained work as a tutor on the Nomini Hall plantation of Robert Carter in 1773. As Fithian describes it, the town of Greenwich was

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Changes and Public Forests

The road to unfunded mandates is paved with good intentions in the form of legislation. That’s my take-away with A-4843 and its companion S-3549 now being considered by the New Jersey Legislature. In a nutshell, this bill would require municipalities and nonprofit organizations that acquired land with Green Acres funds or funded recreation efforts on

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