Tag Archives: urban greening
Dodge Road Trip: Exploring an Urban Oasis with NJ Tree Foundation
November 3, 2016If you know where to look, there are hidden treasures blossoming in Camden. That’s what I learned on a summer visit with the New Jersey Tree Foundation‘s Lisa Simms and Jessica Franzini while tagging along with Margaret Waldock, Dodge’s Environment … Continue reading
Trust for Public Land: Building Healthy Parks and Healthy Communities
May 23, 2016It’s no secret that families in Newark’s Ironbound neighborhood shoulder an undue burden stemming from impacts of centuries of industrial and economic growth focused in the community. Every day, parents worry how to keep their children healthy despite well-documented lead … Continue reading
Jersey Give Back Guide: Trust for Public Land’s Parks for People Program
December 26, 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 Trust for Public Land’s … Continue reading
Effort to transform New Jersey’s aging water systems begins to take shape
June 25, 2014Change often begins with a conversation. Facing a looming deadline to transform New Jersey’s aging urban water systems, key stakeholders began a conversation to map out solutions in May at a Jersey City meeting organized by New Jersey Future, the Geraldine R. Dodge … Continue reading
NJ Leaders Take First Step Toward Stormwater Infrastructure Revamp
May 22, 2014The Johnson Foundation at Wingspread, New Jersey Future, and the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation this week convened a group of New Jersey leaders from water utilities, environmental organizations, economic and community development organizations, the private sector and local, state and … Continue reading
Sign Up for Green Solutions
March 14, 2011If you’re a regular reader of the Dodge blog, you may remember the six-part guest series we featured by the Center for Urban Environmental Sustainability (CUES) last November and December (see the end of this blog post for links). Dodge’s grant to … Continue reading
New Grantee: Hamilton Partnership for Paterson
January 24, 2011In our last round of grantmaking for 2010, the Dodge Foundation welcomed the Hamilton Partnership for Paterson as a new grantee. The Hamilton Partnership is a start-up organization with a compelling vision and plan to thread Paterson’s past success with its … Continue reading
Transforming Newark Lot By Lot
November 15, 2010This is Week 2 of our guest series by the Center for Urban Environmental Sustainability. See last week’s post here. Located on the banks of the Passaic River approximately five miles west of Manhattan, Newark is New Jersey’s largest city, … Continue reading
Gumball Machines for a Greener Planet
June 2, 2010Molly de Aguiar, Program Associate Seed bomb by Heavy Petal If you’re not familiar with them, seed bombs are small balls – a mixture of clay, compost and seeds – that you can toss onto an empty lot or a … Continue reading
Have Farm, Will Travel
September 28, 2009Michelle Knapik, Program Director The highly successful, model urban farm owned and operated by Lorraine Gibbons of Garden State Urban Farms (formerly Brick City Urban Farms) at the corner of Washington and Spruce Streets in Newark is in search of … Continue reading
Searing Heat, Soaring Spirits and a Newark Park to Behold
July 29, 2009Michelle Knapik, Environment Program Director Choosing a starting place for the story of the opening of Nat Turner Park, the largest City-owned park in Newark, is challenging. This is a rich, multi-layered story, filled with numerous champions, diverse entry points … Continue reading
Knee High in Trenton
July 27, 2009Michelle Knapik, Environment Program Director In mid-July I took my grandmother out for a ride through the rolling hills and farmlands of central Pennsylvania. She was anxious to see if the corn was knee high (by the 4th of July … Continue reading
In Urban Land We Trust
April 27, 2009Michelle Knapik, Program Director, Environment Camden waterfront I had the privilege of joining the New Jersey Conservation Foundation (NJCF) board and staff for part of a weekend retreat that included a tour of conserved lands and targeted preservation parcels. We … Continue reading
