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The NJ3 News Scholarship Fund
Supporting Higher Education and 2nd
Generation Leadership Potential
The
NJ3
NEWS is a Special Fund of the New
Jerusalem Community of New Jersey, founded in the spring
of 2005. its mission is to promote and enhance the
quality of communication between all ages and develop a
sustainable structure to allow a more participatory
effort from the second generation to take an
active leadership role. In time, we expect to support a
broad range of needs for our community and progressively
initiate a social change in a variety of areas including
Social and Economic balance, Educational and Academic
guidance, and more.
How is
the scholarship distributed?
Scholarship is the result of sponsorship coming from various
sources, such as concerned parents, custodians of second
generation, local businesses representatives or owners
of businesses, self-employed people and philanthropists.
The sponsorship is then turned into a scholarship, from
deducting the cost of editing and equipments necessary
to run the
NJ3
NEWS project. These contributions are
essentially received from a monthly commitment sponsors
make; contributions are changeable from time to time.
The
amount is set at $1,000 per recipient; its distribution
is scheduled at the third quarter of the year.
Mission & Governance
Mission.
The mission of
NJ3
NEWS
is to first meet the need of our community to keep it
informed on all local, regional, and state events with
the purpose to have the members of the community more
engaged and active participants in the development and
the growth of the same community. Second, is to offer an
opportunity to college students of our community and
those who are about to enter in college a creative and
constructive way to develop their verbal skills through
the mastering of 3 things: tonality, physiology, and
diction. They develop these useful life skills
attributes by becoming the host of the
NJ3
NEWS editions.
They learn how to “talk” to a
camera, and develop essential skills & qualities that
cannot be expressed
otherwise, that once mastered, become part of their
wholeself. As a way to compensate for their effort, they
receive a scholarship.
Goals.
We expect to fund projects
that act locally, and at a state level to benefit the
New Jerusalem Community in the context of a broader view
of social, and economic change. We'll encourage
projects that challenge the status quo of
pre-dispositional abilities to succeed in favor of a
broader perspective for success by empowerment of the
powerless that question the conventional wisdom in
well-reasoned ways.
Scope.
We expect to support a broad range of
community efforts for progressive social change in a
variety of areas.
Grantees.
THEY ARE second generation
who work on project that promote ambassadorship in all
possible forms.
Governance.
The
NJ3
NEWS
Fund will be governed by a steering
committee that will allocate the funds on the need
basis.
Steering Committee.
(SC) shall
have at least three and no more than eleven members.
The initial SC shall be formed by inviting to be members
each individual who has donated to the Fund up to the
date on which the Fund is formally created. Thereafter,
the SC shall elect its own new members, who may be, but
need not be, donors to the Fund. In choosing new
members, the SC will seek diversity and reliability of
character, and a history of community activism. Members
serve 3 year terms, renewable. SC shall elect its own
chair annually. Chair of the SC may appoint whatever
committees necessary. The SC is set to have 2 meeting a
year. SC chair shall be the official contact person. An
assistant can be appointed directly by the chair in
consensus with the SC.
Decision-making.
Quorum is 5/11 of SC membership.
Decisions are made by consensus where feasible. If
consensus is not reached in a timely way, decisions are
made by a majority vote of those present when a quorum
is present. Proxy voting may be permitted. All SC
members must receive adequate advance notice of
meetings.
Scholarship making.
NJ3
NEWS
nominates scholarship recipients to SC board for approval.
Scholarship
nominations are reported to the SC by the NJ3 News
executive producer. SC Board confirms that nominations
are conformed and consistent with the NJ3 News Fund’s
mission, and gives these nominations the same respect as
nominees from the Community Foundation. The Community Foundation (CF) is allowed to
nominate a maximum of 3 potential recipients outside the
NJ3 News context and seek SC approval. These scholarships will follow the goals guidelines formulated in
the “Goals” section.
Amendments.
NJ3
NEWS
Fund, Mission Statement & Governance Procedures may be
amended by the SC by a vote of a majority of the SC.
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