Category Archives: Education
Jersey Give Back Guide: Trenton Children’s Chorus
December 21, 2015From Thanksgiving to New Year’s, we are highlighting each of the organizations featured in the Jersey Give-Back Guide, an online giving gadget that takes the guesswork out of year-end giving. Trenton Children’s Chorus Connect: Website: trentonchildrenschorus.org Twitter: @trentonchorus Facebook: … Continue reading
Jersey Give Back Guide: GlassRoots
December 15, 2015From Thanksgiving to New Year’s, we are highlighting each of the organizations featured in the Jersey Give-Back Guide, an online giving gadget that takes the guesswork out of year-end giving. GlassRoots Connect: Website: glassroots.org Twitter: twitter.com/glassroots Facebook: facebook.com/GlassRootsInc Tumblr: glassrootsinc.tumblr.com … Continue reading
Jersey Give Back Guide: Educational Arts Team
December 10, 2015From Thanksgiving to New Year’s, we are highlighting each of the organizations featured in the Jersey Give-Back Guide, an online giving gadget that takes the guesswork out of year-end giving. Educational Arts Team Connect Website: http://educationalartsteam.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/EdArtsTeam Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/EdArtsTeam What they do: … Continue reading
Jersey Give Back Guide: Arts Horizons
December 1, 2015Leading up to New Year’s Eve, we are highlighting each of the organizations featured in the Jersey Give-Back Guide, an online giving gadget that takes the guesswork out of year-end giving. Today: Arts Horizons! Arts Horizons Connect: Website: artshorizons.org Twitter: @artshorizons1 Facebook: Facebook.com/ArtsHorizons Instagram: … Continue reading
Poetry in the Classroom: Welcome to the Poetry Zone!
October 5, 2015Once a month throughout the school year, our Poetry blog will feature ideas and activities for classroom use. All these posts will focus on creating opportunities that invite students to experience a personal connection to poetry. An easy way to … Continue reading
Why NEA Funding is Still a Big Deal
May 11, 2015Last week the ArtPride NJ Foundation learned that it received a $10,000 grant award from the National Endowment for the Arts. With nine other arts organizations and the New Jersey State Council on the Arts’ Partnership Grant, New Jersey … Continue reading
Jersey Give Back Guide: Young Audiences
December 23, 2014Throughout December, we are highlighting each of the organizations featured in our Jersey Give-Back Guide, an online portal for year-end giving that makes it easy to donate to some of New Jersey’s most effective nonprofits. Today we feature Young Audiences. Organization … Continue reading
Thanks for answering the #GivingTuesday call!
December 3, 2014A giant, Jersey-sized THANK YOU to everyone who answered our #GivingTuesday call to support New Jersey nonprofits on this global day of giving! Hundreds of you have visited www.JerseyGiveBackGuide.org and invested more than $8,000 in the 22 superstar nonprofits whose work improves … Continue reading
A Jersey Give Back Guide #GivingTuesday Challenge Grant
December 2, 2014You survived Thanksgiving, Black Friday, Small Business Saturday and Cyber Monday. Now it’s time to give back! #GivingTuesday is here! In honor of this global day dedicated to celebrating generosity and giving back, the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation and Victoria Foundation … Continue reading
How Do You Build a Truly Creative Community?
May 21, 2014It’s not surprising, but the places we want to live in are the ones that have embraced and fostered creativity and sustainability. When asked about the qualities that people want in a region, they are experiential; we want a mix … Continue reading
Q&A with Wendy Liscow
April 21, 2014This is the second installment of our new regular feature on the blog: interviews with Dodge staff. We’re going to check in with what they’re learning and thinking about as they visit with nonprofits around the state, and we’ll pepper … Continue reading
New Jersey Shines a Light on Arts Education
February 10, 2014A New Jersey state government agency offered some outstanding news last week. Surprised? Don’t be. The New Jersey Department of Education released the 2013 School Performance Reports and for the very first time in the nation arts measures were included. … Continue reading
Monarch Butterflies in a Tailspin
April 1, 2013University of Kansas insect ecologist, Dr. Chip Taylor, who is the founder and director of Monarch Watch, explains in this interview for Yale Environment 360 the variety of factors that are leading to a precipitous decline in the monarch butterfly population. … Continue reading
The Best Thing You Will See Today
May 23, 2012…is author and graphic novelist Neil Gaiman‘s commencement speech to The University of the Arts (Philadelphia) graduates. Watch the video here, or here with subtitles. “Remember: whatever discipline you are in, whether you are a musician or a photographer, a … Continue reading
Educating for Genius
May 21, 2012There have been a handful of thought leaders that have written important books and articles sounding the alarm that the current U.S. education system is killing creativity in our children and not adequately preparing students to compete in the 21st … Continue reading
