This free art therapy program for veterans is a wonderfully creative and healing project led by Dodge grantee The Printmaking Center of New Jersey. Please help them reach their goal!

Delivering fresh, local food from farms to cities in new and efficient ways helps reduce the number of food deserts in our urban areas while also supporting sustainable agriculture. A win-win for all.

The Dodge blog has an extensive archive of food-related articles.

Radio Ambulante, a monthly Spanish-language radio show, is a promising storytelling project for the Latin American community here in the US and abroad. Think of it as the Spanish-language version of This American Life. We hope this project succeeds.

Dodge is a strong supporter of Dance in NJ, which is a field that gets far less recognition and funding than it deserves. We like that Tuzina has a long term vision: addressing critical social justice issues, establishing rehabilitative arts schools and promoting dance globally.

A poetry documentary?! Be still our beating heart!

A miniature lending library (like a bookmobile without the wheels!) in Brooklyn combines public art and civic engagement. Thumbs up!

Sewing Seeds is a CSA that provides its members with plants which can be used as natural dyes. Members also receive recipes and can attend workshops to learn how to use the dyes. Now *that's* creative.

It's hard not to get excited about public art projects which help build community.

If this project is funded, it will be interesting to see how the community reacts to painting over the mural for a new one each quarter. Goes against what we're used to, right?

A charming combination of bee keeping, urban farming and community building.

And caring for the bees by bicycle is the cherry on top.

We love this clever project which combines education (putting together the balloon kit, understanding how it works) with environmental possibilities (depending on what you'd like to map) and artistic pursuits.

If you had a balloon mapping kit, what would you want to map?

Our grants to environment organizations include a focus on developing regional food systems, with an emphasis on rural-to-urban farm connections and developing urban food markets. We like this innovative project's emphasis on access to fresh food and community building.

Theater is a major focus of our arts grants. We like the resourcefulness and creativity of Little Bird Theater's proposed pop-up productions, which will help bring attention to neglected spaces.

We are keenly aware of all the under- and unreported stories in New Jersey that are so critical to understanding the issues we care about. We appreciate the Common Language Project's attempt to find and share important stories from all around the world.

We like that See Potential seeks neighborhood transformation and access to fresh food using large-scale photographic installations. We especially like the emphasis on community-led decision making, which we believe is essential for big picture, innovative projects like these.