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New President and CEO, Samra Haider, to Lead the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Towards Vision of a Just and Equitable New Jersey

The Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation is pleased to announce that Samra Haider has been appointed as its new President and Chief Executive Officer.

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A Year of Clarity, Momentum, and Partnership 

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. 

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New Investments Announced to Support Economic Opportunity in Paterson

The Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation announced $1.6M in multi-year investments advancing economic stability, housing, and opportunity in the City of Paterson.

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    “….mystery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows” exclaims the shipwrecked Trinculo, while seeking shelter from the storm, in Shakespeare’s The Tempest, and the same might…

  • Organizational Poetry

    Dodge Poetry Program directors over the years have spoken and written about a quality of poetry that separates it from the other arts – an…

  • Tending to the Business Side

    When I started Baristanet, one of the first hyperlocal news sites in the country, in 2004, I didn’t realize I was starting a new industry.…

  • Tell Me A Story

    Last Friday, I had the honor of escorting my 9-year-old daughter and 75 of her closest 3rd-grade peers on a field trip in historic Philadelphia.…