Arts Build Communities receives ongoing support from Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation

Arts Build Communities is honored to receive a $25,000 grant from the prestigious Geraldine R.d Dodge Foundation.  The ongoing support of the grant is being used to enhance our programs that serve communities and creative placemakers.  Those programs include community coaching, the Master Practitioner Certificate in Creative Placemaking, thought leadership, New Jersey Creative Vitality Index, and leading the Sustainable Jersey Arts and Culture Task Force.  ABC is also involved in several creative placemaking and community service initiatives through partnerships with Creative New Jersey and Rutgers University's The Collaborative: A Center for Community-Based Learning, Service, and Public Scholarship

Christopher J. Daggett, President and CEO of the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation said this about Arts Build Communities:  "We are impressed by how you have built a statewide and national reputation in the few years since [its] inception.  The mix of academic training, on the ground consulting, and engagement of municipal leaders in a new conversation around the arts and creativity has made ABC a strong partner in revitalizing communities across New Jersey."

This is the third year that the Dodge Foundation has supported Arts Build Communities.  This grant is the largest that ABC has received from the foundation.

Leonardo Vazquez, AICP/PP

Director, Arts Build Communities