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Teaneck s Holy Name Medical Center Foundation and Ridgewood s HealthBarn Foundation are among the recipients of state grants totaling $14 million to feed families facing food insecurity with meals served up by local restaurants.
The Teaneck foundation will receive $2 million from the New Jersey Economic Development Authority s Sustain and Serve program. Ridgewood s HealthBarn Foundation was awarded $1 million.
They were among 28 grants awarded throughout the state to provide assistance to small restaurants preparing food for the needy.
In Ridgewood, the HealthBarn Foundation made the announcement on Thursday. It s an unbelievable coordinated effort, said Stacey Antine, who is director of the HealthBarn USA food programs at the Habernickel Park Gate House, where the announcement was made. The chamber, restaurants, county Food Security Task Force and the Volunteer Center of Bergen County are all partners to make this happen.
MAPLE SHADE Dana Randolph got pregnant at 19 and divorced at 21.
She loved her daughter, but the pressures of raising a kid alone and trying to figure out her life often were too much, she said.
Randolph, now 30, dealt with depression throughout her 20s.
One thing always brought her back to center: dancing. She would teach dance classes after work and dance on her own in her living room. She wanted to quit dancing several times but could never bring herself to actually do it, she said.
Now, Randolph is teaching younger girls to dance, too.
The Maple Shade resident is owner of Amped to Dance, a studio at 4 N. Fork Landing Road. Specialized classes in ballet, jazz, hip-hop and other types of dance are available to kids ages 2 to 17, as well as additional classes for those 18 and older.
By TOM WIEDMANN
Credits: Bridges Outreach/Newark Working Kitchens
By TOM WIEDMANN
February 25, 2021 at 5:19 PM
NEWARK, NJ A Newark-based free meal delivery service was awarded $2 million on Thursday to continue its efforts to assist the city’s low-income residents during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Newark Working Kitchens, an organization launched by Audible in 2020 amidst the pandemic, partners with local restaurants and cooks offering nutritious meals for low-income seniors, families and homeless residents. The organization was awarded $2 million by the New Jersey Economic Development Authority’s (NJEDA) Sustain and Serve NJ Program to help local restaurants continue their operations. Upon announcement of the funds, the organization said it also surpassed the 750,000 meals served-mark to the area’s residents in need.
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The New Jersey Economic Recovery Act of 2020 (ERA), a seven-year, $14 billion package of incentive programs intended to encourage New Jersey job growth, property development and redevelopment, community partnerships, and numerous other economic development initiatives, was signed into law by Governor Phil Murphy on January 7, 2021.
This Client Alert focuses on the New Jersey Aspire Program, enacted as part of the ERA to provide tax credit incentives to developers to help close project financing gap costs associated with commercial, mixed use, and residential real estate development projects that could otherwise prevent those projects from becoming a reality. The Aspire Act is poised to serve as the replacement program for the Economic Redevelopment & Growth (ERG) Program.