Living Our Values

As a staff, we continually ask ourselves, “What would it look like to live our values as well as fund them?”

There are many answers to that question, some of which we know and some which are yet to be discovered. In 2003, for example, Dodge Trustees created an incentive plan for employees to buy environmentally-friendly cars when it was time to replace their current automobiles. Three years later, twelve of nineteen employees drive hybrid cars.

Living Our Values is about pushing ourselves to live more consciously as well as to share our experiences and lessons learned with those interested in the answers to this most important question.

Playing for Keeps "A team of “Dodgers” gathered at the Laurel Hill Paddling Center and boarded a pontoon boat so we could see, smell, and touch and better understand the stories behind the rebounding health of the Hackensack River." (read more)

Giving Back To Our Community "On this day of service to The Land Conservancy of New Jersey, living our values meant getting our hands and boots muddy for the sake of clean water and healthy land. " (read more)

Technical Assistance: A Little Help From Your Friends "Technical assistance is a clear example of living our values at Dodge. It is a whole systems thinking approach to elevating the work of our grantees, recognizing that money is only one way that we can offer support..." (read more)

Carpooling Blues "Trying to live our values by being more environmentally aware, however, is not always an easy choice between what is “good” and what is “bad”..." (read more)

Setting the Table with Local Foods "...few of us are conscious of the food miles it takes for us to put fresh strawberries on our cereal in the dead of winter." (read more)

Greening the 2006 Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival ... “Greening the Festival is meant to signal the way we should do all things, all the time,” notes Dodge President and CEO David Grant. (read more)

New Jersey Wind: Clean Energy ...the Dodge Foundation committed in 2006 to purchase New Jersey Wind to meet 100% of our electricity needs. (read more)

 

 

Images (from the top): Buy Fresh Buy Local image courtesy Foodshed Alliance; The Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Poetry Festival; ThinkHost, Inc.; The 7.5 MW Jersey-Atlantic Wind Farm, Photo simulation courtesy of the Atlantic County Utility Authority.