Thinking About the New Guidelines
David Grant, President and CEO Every morning, on my way to my e-mails or the news, I pause over the Dodge homepage. This Sunday, November 8th, I did more than pause, for there, finally, were the...
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Thinking about Philanthropy – and Justice
David Grant, President and CEO I have been reading Michael Sandel’s book Justice, which stems from his popular course of the same name at Harvard. In between chapters over the weekend, I have been...
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GOOD on Better Neighborhoods
Molly de Aguiar, Program Associate If you’re not familiar with GOOD (the magazine, the website, their events & videos), they are worth checking out. They show us how to collaborate – individuals,...
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Continuing the Creativity Conversation
Over the past two days, more than 150 people participated in the Creative New Jersey conference, discussing how creativity and innovation can help revitalize New Jersey. (See this earlier blog post...
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Celebrate the New Year with Creativity
I imagine you, like me, have a host of stories from the holidays. I traveled to the mid-west to visit family for a week. As always, I had a raucously joyous time playing with my little nephews and...
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Whenever there’s a discussion about creativity and education or the importance of the arts, inevitably someone will say, “But I’m not the creative type.” This is said with a variety of meanings. It...
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Exercise Your Creative Muscle!
Have you read Martin Farewell’s recent blog Poetry Friday: “But I’m Not the Creative Type”? Martin is a creativity champion, and I am always grateful for his prolific musings on the subject of...
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A Creative Recovery
This month we mark the first anniversary of Hurricane Sandy crashing upon New Jersey and our neighboring states. While it was painfully obvious that Sandy was a monumental storm of the highest...
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Q&A with Molly de Aguiar
This is the third installment of our new series featuring Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation staff here on the Dodge Blog. We’re going to check in with what they’re learning and thinking about as they...
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How Do You Build a Truly Creative Community?
Creative New Jersey is a statewide initiative that champions creativity, innovation and sustainability through community engagement and cross-sector collaboration. Representatives of the organization...
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Dodge Q&A: Margaret Waldock
This is the fourth installment of our new series featuring Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation staff here on the Dodge Blog. We’re going to check in with what they’re learning and thinking about as they...
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Creativity, Inc.: A Love Letter to Pixar
I love Pixar. I love the ingenuity of their stories from Toy Story to Finding Nemo and Wall-E to Brave. I love the vividness of the worlds they create through animation. And I sure do love Co-Founder...
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Creative Elizabeth launches its Call to Collaboration
Last week, we were thrilled to launch a creativity convening in the city of Elizabeth. Elizabeth Murphy is Director of Creative New Jersey. This Call to Collaboration welcomed a large, diverse group...
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How Learning to Play Dungeons & Dragons Makes Me a Better Creative Leader
With the holiday season upon us, and lots of hours spent with friends and family sprawled around living rooms, assembling toys and reading/arguing over directions to gadgets and games I’m grateful for...
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5 Ways to Open the Door to Creativity and Collaboration in 2016
This month marks International Creativity Month, where creative communities, people and organizations all around the world celebrate the ingenuity of human imagination. Kacy O’Brien Reflecting on...
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Creative New Jersey: Notes from Detroit
Sometimes it’s good to get out and see the world, to “fill the well” of your own creativity and imagination, either to be inspired by something new or to affirm strategies, beliefs or plans you...
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Creative NJ: Creativity & Collaboration in the ‘City Invincible’
Camden, the “City Invincible,” which built its early reputation as a port city, industrial and manufacturing hub, is currently home to major hospitals, higher education institutions, cultural...
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The ‘Me/We’ Mindset: Collaboration can move mountains at Creative Camden
Engaging young people, creating jobs, teaching tech innovation, improving transit and improving education are just a few of the fifty-seven strategic discussions that sparked new collaborations and...
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Creative New Jersey Kickstarts Community Collaboration and Trust
“How can we provide our youth with safe places for creative expression?” “How can we encourage young professionals to live, work, and raise families here?” These and dozens of other questions have...
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