H.O.P.E. Receives New Jersey Highlands Coalition 2025 Small Grant

On October 8, 2025, Help Our Preservation Effort (H.O.P.E.) was honored to receive one of eight grants administered by the New Jersey Highlands Coalition. H.O.P.E. President Bob May and Vice President Pete Peterson attended the ceremony.

The Small Grants Committee was proud to announce that the following organizations have been awarded Small Grants, as part of the 2025 Small Grants Program: Skylands Preservation Alliance, Sparta Responsible Development, Boonton Main Street, Inc., Help Our Preservation Effort (H.O.P.E.), Concerned Citizens of Frelinghuysen NJ, Mountain Lakes Concerned Citizens, Hardyston Responsible Development, and Preservation of the Terhune Historic Settlement, Inc.

“We are proud to support these organizations as they protect, educate about, and defend the Highlands on a local level,” said Michael Henderson, trustee and now Chair of the Coalition’s Small Grants Committee. “We are only able to be effective as an organization because of the strength of our partners and the support of our individual members whose donations help fund our programs—including the Small Grant Program. These small member organizations and volunteer groups are crucial to the continued viability of the State of New Jersey for generations to come as an environmentally healthy place that protects its myriad resources and where people want to live and play.”