A Victoria Foundation grant to the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra teaches 600 Newark elementary students how to play the violin. Funds given to Integrity train former prisoners to re-enter the job market. Money donated to Aspira prevents at-risk middle- and high-school students from dropping out of school.
For decades, the Victoria Foundation has championed Newark by spending hundreds of millions of dollars to improve its schools, help its families and revitalize its neighborhoods.
Now, like the groups it supports, the independent foundation is calling Newark home.
The Victoria moved its offices from Glen Ridge to Newark last month, taking over the fifth floor of the Episcopal House, the stately Mulberry Street building owned by the Episcopal Diocese of Newark. It will celebrate its new digs with an open house July 25.
