News & Learning

Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Partners with Bivium Westfuller to Put Its Full Endowment to Work Closing the Racial Wealth Gap

The Foundation adopts a total-asset approach — spanning public and private capital markets, direct local investments, and grants — rooted in the conviction that 100% of the Foundation’s resources can be invested for maximum social impact

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N.J. faces a choice: 10 acres of parking or 1,500 new homes

In one of America’s most expensive housing markets, more than 10 acres of publicly owned land in Jersey City are currently devoted to surface parking lots. When housing costs are forcing working families out of the communities they helped build, is that really the best use of scarce public land?

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Dodge Foundation Hosts First Partner and Grantee Convening

Last month, the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation brought together more than 100 people representing 44 organizations for its first-ever partner and grantee convening.

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President's Message

Building and Strengthening Partnerships Across New Jersey: Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Announces More Than $5 Million in Grants

August 25, 2022 |

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.
News

Dodge Foundation Bolsters Strategic Communications and Engagement Efforts to Further Racial Equity Mission

August 1, 2022

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

New Look, Bold Vision: Our Commitment to a Just and Equitable New Jersey

May 9, 2022 |

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., of ACLU of New Jersey

May 6, 2022

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., of the New Jersey Institute for Social Justice

May 6, 2022

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

Rev. Dr. Charles F. Boyer of Salvation and Social Justice

May 6, 2022

Salvation and Social Justice advocates for policies that invest in Black people's health, humanity, and well-being.
Community Spotlight

Jennene Tierney of the Dodge Foundation

May 6, 2022

Jennene Tierney is Vice President of People, Culture, and Equity at the Dodge Foundation.
President's Message

Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Announces More Than $5.4 Million in Grants

April 13, 2022 |

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.
President's Message

Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Announces the Inaugural Cohort of its New Momentum Fund

January 18, 2022 |

$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.
President's Message

Stronger Together: Dodge Foundation Investing $2.8M in New Jersey’s Recovery and Resiliency

October 18, 2021

The past two years have taught us that repairing unjust systems will require well-resourced backing from all of us. Coalition building that mobilizes the power of many toward sustained action has never been more important. That is why I am pleased to announce a set of Crisis Response Grants and Mission Investments that, together, advance those interrelated goals.