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Wear Your Support with an NJCH T-Shirt

May 29, 2025

Wear your support for the humanities in New Jersey! NJCH is offering our supporters a chance to showcase your love of the humanities and the Garden State by purchasing a stylish t-shirt! The proceeds of sales will benefit NJCH and will count toward the $50,000 in matching funds being made available by The Federation of State Humanities Councils with support from the Mellon Foundation. […]

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South Jersey Community Community reporters, (left-to-right) Carma Yé, Mariah Washington, Tracey L. Wells-Huggins, Roy Jones, Dr. Angeline Dean, and Camerun Hannah

A look back at the inaugural South Jersey Community Reporters initiative

October 31, 2024

In January 2024, the New Jersey Council for the Humanities and the Center for Cooperative Media (CCM) at Montclair State University embarked on a collaborative project known as the “South Jersey Community Reporters” initiative.

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Historical postcard showing the boardwalk in Avon-by-the-Sea, from the Avon Historical Society archive

Community History and Humanities Lab Cohorts Receive Project Approval and Funding

October 30, 2024

After months of collaborative learning and project development, NJCH’s latest Community History and Humanities Lab cohorts have reached a major milestone: their project proposals have been approved for NJCH funding and are set to launch this month.

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Mary Marino, Tracey Nguyễn Mang, and Sierra Van Ryck DeGroot

Three new members join the NJCH Board of Trustees

October 25, 2024

Three New Jersey women bringing a wealth of valuable experience in nonprofits, education, arts, and humanities have joined the NJCH Board of Trustees.

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Resource Roundup October 2024

October 25, 2024

Our monthly email newsletter for the NJ Humanities community with helpful information, including notifications of funding, professional development events, meetings, and conferences from both NJCH and the larger nonprofit community.

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5 Returning Citizens dressed in black with white "stigma" masks perform on stage

NJCH Awards 2024 Stanley N. Katz Prize for Excellence in Public Humanities to Ritual4Return

October 14, 2024

Ritual4Return was awarded the Katz prize in recognition of its program offering an intensive 12-week healing workshop incorporating storytelling, theater, literature, and rites of passage for citizens returning from incarceration.

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Resource Roundup September 2024

September 26, 2024

Our monthly email newsletter for the NJ Humanities community with helpful information, including notifications of funding, professional development events, meetings, and conferences from both NJCH and the larger nonprofit community.

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Julia Meriney

From the classroom to the newsroom: Student finds passion and purpose in community journalism program

August 28, 2024

“J-Lab students aren’t necessarily going into journalism as a career. It’s about giving people hope and giving people confidence to write about things that are important to them and their communities.”

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Resource Roundup August 2024

August 26, 2024

Our monthly email newsletter for the NJ Humanities community with helpful information, including notifications of funding, professional development events, meetings, and conferences from both NJCH and the larger nonprofit community.

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Dignitaries and civil rights veterans unveil a new historical marker on the Atlantic City Boardwalk.

Freedom Summer Commemoration Featured in the New York Times

August 22, 2024

Millions of readers experienced the historic events of the 1964 Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City, 60 years after the fact, through the pages of the “New York Times.”

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Resource Roundup July 2024

July 25, 2024

The Resource Roundup is a monthly email newsletter for the NJ Humanities community with helpful information, including notifications of funding, professional development events, meetings, and conferences from both NJCH and […]

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