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Is your board giving policy helping your diversity initiatives — or holding...
Adopting a board giving policy has become fairly commonplace in our country’s nonprofit sector. Board giving policies provide clarity about the board’s anticipated role as individual donors, as well...
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The story behind the new Atlantic City Community Fund
Atlantic City residents, nonprofits, and community organizations are invited to apply to the Atlantic City Community Fund for grants supporting work that enhances the quality of life in the city. The...
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Poetry & Democracy in New Jersey
© T Charles Erickson Photography We’re just about one week away from our upcoming event—“What Is It, Then, Between Us?”: Poetry & Democracy, happening on March 23 from 1:00-8:00 p.m. in our...
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Technical Assistance: Choosing to change board culture
Diversity has been the talk of, and about, boards for a long time, albeit with more talk than action. Boards of nonprofits remain, according to BoardSource’s 2017 Leading with Intent: Overwhelmingly...
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Dodge staff summer reads: 45 books, articles, or podcasts to add to your list
Dodge staff recently started an office book club to read adrienne maree brown’s Emergent Strategy, and began compiling a list of the books, articles, and podcasts to read and discuss together. With...
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A new leadership collective for professionals of color in the sector
The Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation and Rutgers Institute for Ethical Leadership are excited to announce the launch of The Nonprofit Professionals of Color Collective, a new leadership series...
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President’s Message: Living Our Vision
Two years ago, Dodge outlined bold goals in our Strategic Plan, and 2020 is about living our vision. Living our vision is just that — living, doing, being. Centering our work on equity means centering...
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Dialogue across difference: Engaging with polarized perspectives
Two people having a serious conversation. Photo Courtesy of The Gender Spectrum Collection /Creative Commons In this time of increased polarization, there is interest and concern about how to have...
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Nonprofit Professionals of Color Collective explores self-care, solidarity,...
The second session of the new Nonprofit Professionals of Color Collective, a monthly leadership workshop series providing a space where nonprofit professionals of color may engage in a supportive...
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President’s Message: Dodge’s COVID-19 Initial Response
COVID-19 has infiltrated all of our lives and will have far-reaching implications for decades. As we all are living through this unprecedented time, we are coming to terms with the fact that the...
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Dodge TA: Implementing diversity, inclusion, and equity during a pandemic
Definitions of Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity There is broad acknowledgement that we are living through an unprecedented time. It is a time of crisis. For many of us and our organizations, also a...
View ArticleWe cannot be silent: Dodge’s commitment to anti-racism
We cannot be silent, and we will not stand on the sidelines. The Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation stands for racial justice, social change, and equity. We condemn violence and oppression in all forms,...
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President’s Message: Imagine a new future
As our worlds keep changing, as we grieve what once was, and as uncomfortable truths are revealed and continue to be experienced, there is hope because our shared humanity is being activated. The...
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Dodge TA: Building the board you need to grow in tumultuous times
Boards that put in minimal effort or that were working on the wrong things, like doing management’s job, before the lockdown orders are likely to be the ones who have remained so or have become even...
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Dodge Q&A: Ysabel Y. Gonzalez on creating, dismantling the why during times...
On Martin Luther King Boulevard between the Essex County Historic Courthouse and the Veterans’ Courthouse in Newark, the words “ABOLISH WHITE SUPREMACY” were installed and painted in bright yellow...
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Join our Culturally Responsive Arts Education & Anti-Racism 25-Day Challenge
It’s not too late to join the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation’s new Culturally Responsive Arts Education and Anti-Racism 25-Day Challenge, which launches today. The Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation has...
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Introducing our new Equity Framework
Here at the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, we envision an equitable New Jersey through creative, engaged, and sustainable communities. Following the development of our strategic vision, we created new...
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President’s Message: Lessons learned for the year ahead
At the Dodge Foundation, we challenged ourselves this year as we focused on the opportunity to lead and live into equity. 2020 invited us to explore the intersection of risk and opportunity and to...
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A question for our disrupted times: Will well-meaning white people be able to...
Photo courtesy of Martin LaBar via Creative Commons Last year’s Dodge Board Leadership Series wrapped in the spring with a workshop titled “Turning Learning into Action,” with an emphasis on...
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Dodge’s Imagine A New Way transformation launches with new grants
Trustees approve $2.8M toward an equitable and just New Jersey The Center for Environmental Transformation’s youth program participants and the market manager sell produce in the Waterfront South...
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