The Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation is pleased to announce the election of Dan Fatton as our new Board Chair and Anisa Kamadoli Costa as Board Vice Chair.
Visit: Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Elects New Board Chair and Vice ChairsThe Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation has approved more than $11 million in new grant and investment commitments — $6.08 million in Housing Choice and $5.05 million in Economic Mobility — as part of our commitment to closing the racial wealth gap in New Jersey.
Visit: Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Announces $11.1 Million in New Grants to Close the Racial Wealth Gap Across New Jerseys
Last month, the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation brought together more than 100 people representing 44 organizations for its first-ever partner and grantee convening.
Visit: Dodge Foundation Hosts First Partner and Grantee Convenings
President's Message
In January of this year, the Dodge Foundation announced our new program priorities centered on racial justice, which is the focus of our grantmaking now and into the future. Today, we are pleased to announce our first grants of 2023, which are our first grants under our new program priorities, to organizations across New Jersey.
President's Message
In 2016, the Dodge Foundation began its equity journey in earnest, culminating in a strategic plan centered on a vision for an equitable New Jersey. Building on the lessons learned over the past few years, we are entering into 2023 with a strengthened commitment and launching new program priorities centered on racial justice, which is the focus of the Dodge Foundation going forward.
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The Dodge Foundation is excited to welcome Malcolm McClain as Program Officer, growing the Program Team’s capacity and ability to support our partners. Malcolm brings practical programmatic experience and deep research skills that will advance our vision of a more just and equitable New Jersey.
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In our most recent round of funding, the Dodge Foundation made two major, multimillion-dollar grants to projects focused on power building and economic resilience.
President's Message
Over the past few years, the Dodge Foundation has been an organization in transformation. We are an organization aspiring to become an antiracist institution. We are an organization working to increasingly center racial equity and justice in all aspects of our work. We are an organization that is listening and learning. What we’ve learned so far will guide us in our work to come.
Learning Out Loud
In November, the Dodge Foundation convened our inaugural Momentum Fund cohort. Launched in the fall of 2021, the Momentum Fund used a new community-engaged process to select and fund ten emerging organizations who are employing innovative strategies to address root causes of structural racism in New Jersey.
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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.
