Tag Archives: New Jersey
Sustainable Jersey Celebrates 10-Year Anniversary
April 25, 2019Decade of empowering communities to create a better tomorrow Looking back to the launch of Sustainable Jersey in 2009, we can track some remarkable changes. Where once sustainability wasn’t present in the local conversation, now there are hundreds of new … Continue reading
Creative New Jersey Kickstarts Community Collaboration and Trust
October 29, 2018“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 been explored and debated in a remarkable series … Continue reading
Sustainable Jersey: Making sustainability change stick
October 9, 2017Sustainable Jersey Regional Hubs meet to advance collective leadership What drew leaders from Sustainable Jersey’s Regional Hubs to an indoors five-hour gathering on a recent beautiful fall Saturday? Consider the range of responses ticked off as we went around the room: … Continue reading
Sustainable Jersey: 15 sustainable solutions to community challenges
April 19, 2017As priorities change at the national level, it’s nice to live in a state with a strong municipal level of government — especially if sustainability is important to you. Whether you care about clean water, land use, climate change, … Continue reading
History Matters
March 8, 2017You may not have noticed, but history is having a moment. Often overlooked as a bit of a wallflower next to its showier sisters—arts, literature, and science — history does periodically take center stage and remind us of its inevitable, … Continue reading
CNJG: Powerful Partnerships Lead to Stronger Organizations Serving the Sector
September 14, 2016The value of working in partnership with others has long been a powerful strategy in the social sector. Non-profit organizations understand that partnerships can be highly effective given the right mix of trust, communication, and an understanding of the unique … Continue reading
Free Press: How an Organizing Mindset Can Serve Newsrooms
April 28, 2016Newsrooms are experimenting with different ways of engaging their audiences — and over the last few months Free Press has been on the ground figuring out the best ways to connect Garden State journalists and residents via our News … Continue reading
Pro Bono Partnership Pundit: Why Proactive Employment Law Advice Is Similar to a Fram Oil Filter
March 15, 2016You may recall the highly successful marketing campaign involving Fram oil filters. In a series of advertisements, an auto mechanic would advise drivers, “The choice is yours. You can pay me now, or pay me later,” suggesting that spending … Continue reading
CNJG: Using Travel As A Teaching Tool, And A Lever For Change
March 9, 2016Foundations seeking to drive systems change in health care have a powerful method they can use to educate health system leaders. The Nicholson Foundation has found that sponsoring out-of-state, or even out-of-country, learning trips is an especially effective way to spread … Continue reading
News Sites Partner to Put Spotlight on Immigration in New Jersey
February 22, 2016NJ Spotlight, Center for Cooperative Media and New America Media launch $30,000 crowdfunding campaign The run-up to the presidential election has thrust the subject of immigration squarely into the center of public discourse. Yet much of the discussion thus far … Continue reading
Board Leadership: Bullseye!
November 4, 2015What does October conjure up for you? Fall foliage and apple cider? Baseball playoffs and Halloween costumes? Much as I appreciate those things, I primarily associate October with a favorite annual event: the kick-off of the Dodge Board Leadership Training … Continue reading
Posts from an Emerging Leader: Encounters with New Jersey’s Criminal Justice System
November 3, 2015This blog is part of a ten-part series capturing my experiences as part of the 2015 Lead NJ Class, which follows the monthly two-day seminars our class participates in over the course of one year. For the next several weeks … Continue reading
Dodge Q&A: Meet Our Newest Team Member
October 1, 2015The Dodge Q&A series is designed to introduce you to Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation staff as they share what they’re learning and thinking about as they visit with nonprofits around the state. They’ll also reveal a few things about themselves you might not … Continue reading
