METUCHEN — Borough-based Literacy Volunteers of New Jersey received an $11,000 grant from the Horizon Foundation for New Jersey to support its Building Literacy Skills for Health Care and Healthy Living Program.
The program provides health literacy training, support and resources to the organization’s network of local adult-literacy programs.
This funding was part of the foundation’s final round of grants for 2013, giving more than $1.5 million to 60 nonprofit organizations. In total, the foundation gave more than $4.2 million in grants to 142 nonprofits in 2013.
Since its inception in 2004, the Horizon Foundation for New Jersey has awarded 965 grants, totaling more than $34 million to support New Jersey nonprofit organizations.