Poetry Fridays: Summer Programs for Teachers
Michele Russo, Poetry Coordinator Our blog today focuses on some of the most important professionals in our society—teachers. The demands of being a teacher make…
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Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Announces $11.1 Million in New Grants to Close the Racial Wealth Gap Across New Jersey
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 JerseysDodge 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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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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Once a Dodger
Michelle Knapik, Environment Program Director Dear Dodge grantees and NJ philanthropic colleagues, As I transition from the Dodge Foundation to the Surdna Foundation, I want…
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Will the Real Family Farmer Please Stand up?
By Michelle Knapik Environment Program Director The beauty of the Sustainable Ag and Food System Funders Conference is its recipe for learning and relationship building. There…
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Re-imagining the Work of Ending Hunger, Part 2
A pay what you can café? With locally-sourced food and compostable take-out containers? You bet. New Brunswick based Elijah’s Promise is rethinking the traditional models…
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Getting On The Land
This is the second of two posts from our friends at the Hunterdon Land Trust, led by Executive Director Margaret Waldock. In case you missed…
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Art All Night Trenton 2011
Michele Russo, Poetry Coordinator Several of us on the Dodge staff made it to Art All Night in Trenton last weekend. What an amazing event! Hundreds…
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Re-imagining the Work of Ending Hunger, Part 1
Please welcome Rev. Lisanne Finston, the Executive Director of Elijah’s Promise, to the Dodge blog today. Based in New Brunswick, Elijah’s Promise’s mission is to…
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Protecting the Dismal Swamp in Central NJ
We welcome back David Wheeler, Director of Operations for Edison Wetlands Association, for the second of his two guest blogs about incredible comeback stories of…
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Local Farmers’ Markets Bring Good Food and Big Smiles to New Jersey Communities
Dodge grantee Hunterdon Land Trust is a leader in the preservation and stewardship of Hunterdon county’s rural landscapes and natural resources, having protected more than 5,000 acres…
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An Artful Path to Redevelopment
By Michelle Knapik Environment Program Director Art met industrial history and invited the City of Paterson, aka Silk City, to re-imagine itself, to connect past…