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Sourland Planning Council

The Sourland Planning Council works to protect the ecological integrity, historical resources and the Sourland Mountain region, including the fragile drinking water supply and its unique ecosystem. Unless properly managed, these resources will be destroyed by pollution. By preserving the Sourland Mountains, the Planning Council hopes to keep one of the most significant geologic formations in the state from becoming developed or the native wildlife deteriorating.

Sourland Planning Council

Arts Council of Princeton

The Arts Council of Princeton is a community arts organization whose mission is to support the arts in the Princeton area. Through programs and partnerships with other nonprofit organizations, artists, and arts educators, the Arts Council functions as a vital cultural center, bringing together the Princeton community through classes, programs, and events and enriching the cultural life of area residents of all ages.

Princeton Arts Council

NJDEP

The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection works towards educating citizens about how to be eco-friendly through recycling, use of pesticides, waste management, and energy conservation. They also organize several site cleanups in order to prevent pollution and littering, and work towards preserving farmland and historic sites and state parks and forests. In addition, the organization also tracks and studies plants and animals to learn about how they function best within their habitats.

NJDEP

Homefront

Homefront is a non-profit organization in Mercer County that works to break the cycle of poverty and end homelessness. Homefront provides case management for clients seeking housing, offers an on-site food pantry, maintains transitional and permanent housing facilities, and runs programs for homeless kids.Through student groups, church and synagogue groups, and neighbors who donate meals, clothing and furniture, as well as the many caring individuals, foundations and corporations that provide financial support, Homefront is able to lessen the immediate pain of homelessness for families in Mercer County and help these families become self-sufficient.

HomeFront

Trenton Area Soup Kitchen (TASK)

Through the help of dedicated volunteers and generous financial support from individuals, churches, local businesses and community organizations, the Trenton Area Soup Kitchen can provide more than 3,000 free meals per week to people in need in the Trenton area. TASK is a charitable, non-profit organization whose mission is to respond to the needs of people in the Trenton area by 1) providing meals to all those who are hungry, 2) providing services to encourage self-sufficiency and improve quality of life, 3) informing the wider community of the needs of the hungry, and 4) advocating for resources to meet these needs.

Trenton Soup Kitchen

Delaware Riverkeeper Network

The Delaware Riverkeeper Network (DRN) is a nonprofit organization with professional staff and volunteers who work throughout the entire Delaware River Watershed including portions of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware and New York. DRN provides effective environmental advocacy, volunteer monitoring programs, stream restoration projects and public education. DRN also goes to court when necessary to ensure enforcement of environmental safety laws.

DRN programs include:

- Advocacy to protect water quality and habitat;

- Awareness to Action to organize local communities into activists to protect local streams;

- Litigation and other legal action to enforce environmental laws;

- Monitoring by volunteers along the entire length of the River;

- Restoration to provide communities the expertise, community training and organizing needed to restore damaged streams and waterway ecosystems.

Delaware Riverkeepers