Going to the Dogs
Michele Russo, Poetry Coordinator Pilgrim, a Seeing Eye Dog in training You may know that our office building is in downtown Morristown—a great place for…
The 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 JerseysLast 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
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?
Visit: N.J. faces a choice: 10 acres of parking or 1,500 new homessMichele Russo, Poetry Coordinator Pilgrim, a Seeing Eye Dog in training You may know that our office building is in downtown Morristown—a great place for…
By Ann Marie Miller Executive Director ArtPride Is art boring? Well, sure. Sometimes. Joe Patti recently tackles this subject in his blog, Butts in the…
By Alison Hastings Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission Every few months, I check the COMFOOD email folder I set up on my personal Yahoo email…
In the second of a two-part series from the Trenton Community Music School, Gerilyn Stolberg, who is a classroom teacher at Learning Depot preschool –…
By Richard Simon Program Associate Today we focus on two new Dodge grantees, both doing admirable work in Camden, New Jersey. The first grantee is…
Today’s guest blogger is Ronnie Ragen, the Community Outreach Director of the Trenton Community Music School. Ronni coordinates Music for the Very Young, the early…
By Ann Marie Miller Executive Director ArtPride George Bernard Shaw once said, “Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.” Arts advocates…
By Nina Stack President Council of New Jersey Grantmakers Even in the current economy, philanthropy is alive and well in America. Here in New Jersey,…
By Ann Marie Miller Executive Director ArtPride Use the word “advocate” and more often than not, the response is a blank bored stare. Ask people…