About Us & Job Openings

NJRC is hiring a Regional Community Organizer. Click here to see job description.

Click here for the Board. Click here for the bylaws.

The New Jersey Regional Coalition is a faith-based, grassroots coalition of groups from throughout New Jersey devoted to the idea that everyone who lives here has a stake in the economic and social well-being of our region, and of all the communities within it, not just his or her own. The existence of distressed and impoverished communities within New Jersey affects all residents, through increased crime, increased taxes, reduced economic growth, and a tendency for blight and poverty to “creep” into other towns. Thus the imperative to work together for the common good derives both from our deeply held values, notably concern for others, and from simple self-interest.

Our organization’s goal is thus to change our social structures to promote equity, stability, and growth in our communities. NJRC works to develop an effective relationship with the decision makers in Trenton and beyond to bring about change in our society. Through these activities, we want to hold our leaders accountable and to become a powerful vehicle for people to act on their interests and their faith. We seek to build a better world and healthier regions.

Purpose

The purpose of the coalition is twofold:

1. One is to develop and advance a meaningful regional reform agenda in the state of New Jersey that addresses fiscal and social disparities, racial and economic segregation, concentrated poverty, neighborhood decline and urban sprawl.
2. The other is to build the organizational capacity and political power to advance and defend such an agenda through education, organizing and mobilization.

Objectives

1. Coordinate statewide research and analysis of socioeconomic and environmental trends that affect regional health.
2. Enhance information, political and other organizational support for members.
3. Develop, implement and promote ways to increase impact of other regional public and private groups.
4. Identify opportunities for organizations to collaborate on other projects that further the goals of the coalition.
5. Develop a public education campaign to foster more knowledge of policy issues and promote greater political will by state, county, and municipalities to address policy agendas.
6. Identify and solicit funding and other resource opportunities to expand the impact of the coalition.

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