A look back at Dodge Foundation grantees in the news and other stories on our radar related to New Jersey and our focus areas: environment, arts, media and education. Week ending Nov. 9.at
This has been a year of listening, grounding, learning, and charting a clear path forward. And it has also been a year of real progress and movement toward the kind of New Jersey where every family has the chance to build stability, build opportunity, and build wealth across generations.
At Rutgers–Newark, Braven is transforming what economic mobility looks like for first-generation and low-income college students. Their model is rooted in a simple but powerful truth: career readiness and degree completion are among the strongest predictors of lifetime earnings and wealth-building.