Dodge Blog

President & CEO David Grant
to Step Down in June 2010

Dear Friends,

I want you to know that I have told the Dodge Board of Trustees I would like to serve one more year in the position of President and CEO of the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, with their permission and support.

I have loved being at Dodge -- and continue to love being at Dodge. I am blessed with outstanding colleagues on the staff and Board, and my life is immeasurably enriched through knowing so many of you, and the work you do, personally. But by the summer of 2010, I will have been in this job for almost twelve years. I would like to take on some new challenges and want to set a date when I will be available to consider them. (read the full text of David Grant's letter...)

Please also see:
- A letter to the Dodge community from Dodge Foundation Chairman Robert LeBuhn
- Press Release

 

Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival 2010 Request for Information from Prospective Partners

David Grant, President and CEO
Since my letter in January, many of you have reached out to us in friendship and support, asking how you can help keep the Dodge Poetry Festival alive in 2010.  We deeply appreciate that response.

Simultaneously, representatives of several possible new venues for the Festival – mostly town centers with strong infrastructure in place – have contacted us, raising the possibility of our partnering with them to produce a Festival.

Encouraged by both of the above, we are reconsidering the idea of canceling the 2010 Festival cycle.  We cannot promise anything yet, but we wanted to give you a sense of what is happening.

We have written a “Request for Information from Prospective Partners,” which we have sent to a number of groups throughout New Jersey with whom we have had exploratory conversations...

(Read the full text of David Grant's letter...)