These made us laugh!

...Not that we ever feel like this in our own office...cough.

This is just very beautiful. The intersection between nature and man through architecture.

Paterson, NJ is a great city with a burgeoning art scene, and we love the incorporation of student films in this festival, and the chance for scholarship opportunities. Not to mention, these guys are pretty funny!

What a great project in Chicago! We love the long-term focus of career training, while serving "food deserts" with healthy, organic foods through urban farming. This is similar to efforts we fund in Camden, NJ.

We love the combination of food as a creative art, and also a means of relief to a community greatly impacted by Hurricane Sandy.

A clever way to get people on their bikes, enjoy their natural surroundings, and see some art too!

We love the community mural, but we love the bus-turned-bicycle hub even more!

Oh how we love this wonderful project that combines literacy, children, imagination, and vacant lots in Cleveland.

The joy of making is an important part of any child's education. We'd love to see the adventures of SparkTruck and what they learned on their journey.

Engaging millions of children with art and creativity - this project sounds like great fun.

Three words: Free Art Drop.

We love it.

Because everyone should have access to free Shakespeare in the Park.

Dodge supports ongoing, careful stewardship of our land, which includes efforts to support sustainable agriculture and develop regional food systems that offer plentiful access to fresh, local foods. So, naturally, we hope Farmer Al is successfully funded.

In New Jersey, not only do we have a pipeline problem for data and programming skills for journalism, we have a journalism problem period. Dodge funds media because we believe that democracy cannot work without high quality, reliable, accessible news and information for all.

As an aging population of farmers wonders who will take over their farms once they have retired, NOFA NJ (a Dodge grantee) is proposing a solution with their beginner farmer incubator.

We like to dream of this project to plant fruit trees throughout Northampton, MA as a statewide New Jersey project. Yum.

We hope that Brooklyn, OR can make this local and organic food market work, and that it becomes a model in other places, including New Jersey.

Capturing the heat in the composting process as a renewable energy source for farming? Yes. We like this.

Here's an app to turn our black thumbs green and make our harvests more bountiful.

Did you read the much talked about "Why Women Can't Have It All?" article recently? This play is adapted from a 1958 novel exploring women wondering if it's possible to have "the best of everything." We're intrigued and would love to see this play come to NJ.

Journalism + history + pop culture. This is a really interesting project. Don't you want to hear the lost interviews?

Read more about this project here: http://www.niemanlab.org/2012/07/save-your-darlings-blank-on-blank-gives-new-life-to-old-tape/

A cool STEM-inspired project for girls!

This project, bringing citizens together to talk about issues that we all care about, despite our differences, is an important step in the right direction toward more livable communities here in NJ.

An intriguing education project that helps us all learn from great teachers across the US.

Yes! And in New Jersey! Double yes!

This project echoes the Dodge Foundation's local foods-related grantmaking. We have a rich archive of food-related blog posts here: http://blog.grdodge.org/category/food-systems/

Exploring the world and developing artistic and creative skills through photography - this is a beautiful project for students in Trenton and Newark.

Couldn't resist this hands-on science and photography project by a group of 6th grade girls. Education at its best! We're rooting for their success.

Wouldn't it be great for someone to undertake this project in New Jersey, and tell stories of the state's past and present through the postcards?

Art All Night is a truly amazing and inspiring 24-hour arts event in Trenton. Help bring back the Iron Pour for 2012!

We love the community and arts focus on this "Trading Tortoise" installation. A beautifully conceived project.

The Social Design Field Guide, designed for urban planners, activists, residents, advocates, and educators, could be tremendously useful for the work of Sustainable Jersey (www.sustainablejersey.com), one of Dodge's signature initiatives.

Sussex County, NJ is in the far northwest corner of the state, where the arts aren't as readily accessible to New Jerseyans as in other parts of the state, so we hope to see this project successfully funded.

Another great project from Chicago promoting free dance performances in neighborhood parks. We definitely need this in New Jersey!

A collaborative project that promotes literacy and creativity for youth with both an online and a print magazine. Bravo!

This is an interesting way to explore civic engagement, community and our institutions through art.

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!

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 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.