Living Our Values

Shortly after David Grant arrived as the new President and CEO of the Dodge Foundation, he posed this question to the Board of Trustees and Dodge staff: 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.

Toyota Prius

 

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."
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The Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Festival logo

 

 

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.
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Image from ThinkHost, Inc. that reads "does your internet company share your progressive values?"

ThinkHost: Green Web Hosting

... in ThinkHost, our new web host provider, we chose a company that is both environmentally friendly and community conscious.
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The 7.5 MW Jersey-Atlantic Wind Farm - Photo simulation courtesy of the Atlantic County Utility Authority.


New Jersey Wind: Clean Energy

...the Dodge Foundation committed in 2006 to purchase New Jersey Wind to meet 100% of our electricity needs.
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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.