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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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    Photo by Kevin Coughlin To our all grantees, friends and colleagues who are experiencing this leadership transition with us, we share both a farewell message…

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    David Grant, President and CEO Early on Tuesday morning last week, at the end of the Memorial Day holiday weekend, I drove across the state…

  • Monarch Mondays: Week 4

    Today’s story from Maren Pearson, a Special Education teacher with Marshall High School (Fairfax County Public Schools, VA), is the final installment in our Monarch…

  • Gumball Machines for a Greener Planet

    Molly de Aguiar, Program Associate Seed bomb by Heavy Petal If you’re not familiar with them, seed bombs are small balls – a mixture of…

  • Thinking About Philanthropy

    David Grant, President and CEO As I write my next-to-last blog entry as President of the Dodge Foundation, I am drawn back to the title…

  • Monarch Mondays: Week 3

    Happy Monday! We’re pleased to share the third in our Monarch Monday series. Today we hear from Hope D’Avino-Jennings of the Bergen Community College Child…

  • Monarch Mondays: Week 2

    Welcome back to Monarch Mondays! This is our second week of this new guest series. If you missed last week, you can see Mary Lenahan’s…

  • Urban Sculpture: Mixed media & messages

    Michelle Knapik, Environment Program Director Tilly by artist Emilio Rossi This past weekend marked the opening of “Sculptoure,” an annual outdoor urban sculpture exhibition presented…