A Foundation for Community Development

Started in 2005, the Investors Savings Bank Charitable Foundation enriches the lives of New Jersey citizens by supporting initiatives in the arts, education, youth development, affordable housing, and health and human services. By mid-2008, the foundation had dispensed more than $2.5 million in grants. Among recent recipients:

ACCION of New York and New Jersey (a nonprofit agency boosting local economic development through loans and advisory services to individuals and businesses without access to traditional sources of credit)
All Stars Project-Joseph A. Forgione Development School for Youth
Bloomfield College (for a new Center for Academic Development)
Brick and East Orange Police Athletic Leagues (PAL)
Collier Youth Services (an agency supporting summer programs for disadvantaged youth)
Community Access Unlimited (an agency providing support services for at-risk youth)
Episcopal Community Development, Inc.
Housing Partnership of Morris County (HPMC)
JFK Hospital Foundation, Edison, New Jersey
La Casa de Don Pedro, Newark (a community-based development corporation)
Liberty Science Center, Jersey City
Masterwork Chorus (Morris County)
Middlesex County Community College
Morris Habitat for Humanity
New Jersey Battered Women's Service
New Jersey Citizen Action
New Jersey Symphony
Paper Mill Playhouse
Plainfield Area YMCA
Playwrights Theater, Madison
Save Latin America Inc., Union (an Hispanic community civic organization)
Somerset County Coalition on Affordable Housing (SCCOAH)
Township of Irvington
United Way of Ocean County