Live From Trenton

The Center for Non-Profits is New Jersey’s state association of non-profits. For more than 30 years since its founding in 1982, the Center remains New Jersey's only umbrella organization for all charities in the state. Through advocacy, management assistance and cost-saving programs, the Center provides non-profits with knowledge, insights and tools so they can pursue their missions more effectively. The Center strengthens non-profits, individually and collectively, by:Championing and ProtectingThe non-profit community as an essential part of the social and economic well-being of New Jersey and its residents.The most comprehensive information about New Jersey non-profitsAdvocating for non-profits in Trenton and WashingtonCommunicating the value of non-profits through research and public educationUniting our state's non-profits around common goalsand promoting best practices to foster effective, ethical organizations in furtherance of the public good.In this episode of Live Fron Trenton we’ll discuss the leading issues affecting NJ non-profits with Linda M. Czipo, Executive Director of the NJ Center for Non-Profits

LAN Associates, a full service, engineering, planning, architecture, and surveying firm, recently celebrated its 50th Anniversary. Founded in Paterson in 1965 by John A. Lacz and now based in Midland Park, NJ, LAN Associates employs nearly 80 people.  Since its creation, LAN Associates has completed over 29,000 projects throughout the region and works on over $100 million dollars of construction projects each year for municipal, educational, hospitality, ecclesiastical, senior living, and private clients. LAN Associates service a variety of federal, state, county, and municipal governments, housing authorities, boards of education, Fortune 500 companies, foreign companies, religious facilities, and private clients. LAN’s main office is located in Midland Park, Bergen County, New Jersey; with a second location in Goshen, Orange County New York and a satellite office Trumbull, Connecticut.Its most recent high profile project was the design of the James Monroe Elementary School in Edison that was destroyed in a 2013 fire.Today on “Live From Trenton” we will learn about trends in building in New Jersey, architectural changes over the years and the challenges posed in dealing with major projects with municipalities, churches, schools and private companies as we speak with LAN Associates President Kenneth Karle. He is in charge of architectural design and architectural engineering and is in charge of master planning, conceptual design, feasibility planning, and project management for all major architectural projects for LAN Associates.

The iconic factories of Passaic’s history are being modernized to be part of its present and future and the people at the forefront are a family of furniture makers that made New Jersey their home over 30 years ago and never looked back.Shimon Einhorn emigrated from Israel to the United States in 1978 and opened a small custom cabinet shop in Downtown Manhattan.  Now, along with his sons Shamir and David, the Einhorn family, owners of Contempo Space, is embarking on building a new future for downtown Passaic with the construction of three businesses on a 12-acre property the family owns at 220 Passaic Street on the site of the old Okonite cable factory.The property encompasses thousands of square feet of commercial space that the family is developing into a flagship showroom and store for their furniture business, a retail mall shopping center, a corporate event center with maximum capacity of 1,000 people and a plan to develop a hotel. We'll talk with Shamir Einhorn about this amitious project that could serve as a model for urban centers throughout the state when completed.

The Mental Health Association in New Jersey has started a service to help address the growing number of opiate addictions in the state. The NJ Connect for Recovery Call Line number is 855-652-3737 (TTY: 877-294-4356). NJ Connect for Recovery is also unique because it is the only call line in New Jersey specifically focused on individuals and families coping with addiction to heroin and prescription painkillers.This service is a safe, confidential, nonjudgmental place that New Jerseyan may call to connect, grow and transform through a unique combination of supportive counseling services. People calling on behalf of themselves have access to a Certified Alcohol and Drug Counselor. Those calling on behalf of a family member or friend are connected to a Peer Specialist who understands the unique and complex effect of addiction on personal relationships.On our show we will talk with Stephanie Mulfinger, LCSW, Director of Call Center Services and Don Hebert, Volunteer Coordinator for NJ Connect for Recovery, about the urgent need for this line, how it works and how the community can get involved. 

The New Jersey Repertory Company is a professional, non-profit theater founded in 1997 by SuzAnne Barabas (Artistic Director) and Gabor Barabas (Executive Producer). Located in Long Branch, New Jersey, the theater's primary mission is to develop and produce new plays and to nurturing the work of not only established writers but new and unknown playwrights and has maintained an open- submission policy receiving over 750 scripts each year from throughout the U.S. and around the world.Adele Sammarco, Director of Marketing and Communications will discuss the goals of the theater and how it it influencing a new generation of theater participants.