The Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation is pleased to announce that Samra Haider has been appointed as its new President and Chief Executive Officer.
Visit: New President and CEO, Samra Haider, to Lead the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Towards Vision of a Just and Equitable New JerseysThis 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.
Visit: A Year of Clarity, Momentum, and Partnership s
The Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation announced $1.6M in multi-year investments advancing economic stability, housing, and opportunity in the City of Paterson.
Visit: New Investments Announced to Support Economic Opportunity in Patersons
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The Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation is excited to welcome Ticiana Maloney as Grants Manager and Susan Vega as Controller. Both Ticiana and Susan join our organization with decades of experience across the social sector, and with a deep commitment to advancing our vision of a more just and equitable New Jersey.
President's Message
In our most recent round of funding, the Dodge Foundation made more than $5 million in grants which served to acknowledge long-standing partners and collaborators, support new partners who are driving racial equity and justice, and respond to the real-time issues and crises facing people across the State of New Jersey. These grants represent our purposeful efforts to support and recognize the impact of years-long partners and institutions, while also strengthening and growing our support to new organizations focused and aligned to our new strategic direction of building a just and equitable New Jersey.
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The Dodge Foundation is excited to welcome Janna Oberdorf as our new Director of Communications. She comes to the organization with two decades of experience in communications and journalism, and 15 years of experience working in the social sector, with a focus on gender and racial equity.
President's Message
Today, as we continue to live into our commitment to build a just and equitable New Jersey, we are launching a new visual identity and website to help bring our vision of a new way for the Foundation and New Jersey more fully to life.
Community Spotlight
Amol Sinha, Esq., is executive director of the ACLU of New Jersey, which uses impact litigation, legislative advocacy, public education, organizing, and strategic communications to achieve its transformative policy goals.
Community Spotlight
Ryan Haygood, Esq., is the President and CEO of the New Jersey Institute for Social Justice, which advocates to create wealth, transform justice and harness democratic power for people of color in New Jersey.
Community Spotlight
Salvation and Social Justice advocates for policies that invest in Black people's health, humanity, and well-being.
Community Spotlight
Jennene Tierney is Vice President of People, Culture, and Equity at the Dodge Foundation.
President's Message
In our most recent funding rounds, the Dodge Foundation made more than $5.4 million in grants to nonprofit organizations supporting the arts, education, environment, informed communities, sector capacity building, and new Imagine a New Way and Momentum Fund grantees.
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$1.5. million in multi-year funding for 10 emerging organizations employing innovative strategies to address root causes of structural racism in New Jersey, nominated and selected in a new community-engaged process.
