Martin "Marty" P. Johnson is president and founder of Isles, Inc., a Trenton,

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organization. He is a founder and former director of New Jersey Community Capital, founding trustee of the Housing and Community Development Network of New Jersey, founder and former chair of the New Jersey Regional Coalition, and former member of the Mercer Trenton African American Chamber of Commerce (MTAACC) and other organizations. He is the founder and former co-chair of the national Success Measures Project, a project of the Development Leadership Network. In 1996, he taught as a visiting

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, and he was the James Wei Visiting Professor in Entrepreneurship at Princeton University's Engineering School for the 2015–17 academic years. His course, EGR498, was titled, Rethinking Social Profit Organizations. In 2018, he began teaching FR 158, So, You Want To Change the World. In January 2020, he became the Entrepreneur In Residence at Lafayette College, where he taught Social Entrepreneurship, Advised student teams and Co-Developed a New Entrepreneur Fellowship. He is a former

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and member of the Executive Committee of Princeton University. He is a former director of Capital Health Systems and an Advisory Committee member of Princeton University's Architecture and Art Museum Departments.

Awards

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award (1989) *Princeton Peace PrizePrinceton University names nine new trustees
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'' magazine (1998) *Humanitarian of the Year Award from the New Jersey Chapter of the National Conference on Community and Justice

Isles, Inc.

Isles is a

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community development organization. It was founded in 1981 to serve residents of central New Jersey.

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Isles, Inc.
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