Tag Archives: Creativity
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
The ‘Me/We’ Mindset: Collaboration can move mountains at Creative Camden
June 26, 2017Engaging young people, creating jobs, teaching tech innovation, improving transit and improving education are just a few of the fifty-seven strategic discussions that sparked new collaborations and strengthened partnerships during the two days of our Creative Camden Call to … Continue reading
Creative NJ: Creativity & Collaboration in the ‘City Invincible’
February 23, 2017Camden, the “City Invincible,” which built its early reputation as a port city, industrial and manufacturing hub, is currently home to major hospitals, higher education institutions, cultural attractions and citizens who are deeply committed to their City. Though Camden has … Continue reading
Creative New Jersey: Notes from Detroit
February 15, 2016Sometimes it’s good to get out and see the world, to “fill the well” of your own creativity and imagination, either to be inspired by something new or to affirm strategies, beliefs or plans you already have. I had the … Continue reading
5 Ways to Open the Door to Creativity and Collaboration in 2016
January 19, 2016This month marks International Creativity Month, where creative communities, people and organizations all around the world celebrate the ingenuity of human imagination. Reflecting on Creative New Jersey’s past year, which saw Calls to Collaboration in Atlantic City and the … Continue reading
How Learning to Play Dungeons & Dragons Makes Me a Better Creative Leader
December 29, 2015With the holiday season upon us, and lots of hours spent with friends and family sprawled around living rooms, assembling toys and reading/arguing over directions to gadgets and games I’m grateful for a very particular game I’ve been learning to … Continue reading
Creative Elizabeth launches its Call to Collaboration
November 3, 2014Last week, we were thrilled to launch a creativity convening in the city of Elizabeth. This Call to Collaboration welcomed a large, diverse group of dynamic community leaders, educators, environmental and sustainability professionals, artists, economic development and local business leaders, … Continue reading
Creativity, Inc.: A Love Letter to Pixar
July 28, 2014I love Pixar. I love the ingenuity of their stories from Toy Story to Finding Nemo and Wall-E to Brave. I love the vividness of the worlds they create through animation. And I sure do love Co-Founder and President Ed Catmull’s book … Continue reading
Dodge Q&A: Margaret Waldock
June 30, 2014This is the fourth installment of our new series featuring Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation staff here on the Dodge Blog. We’re going to check in with what they’re learning and thinking about as they visit with nonprofits around the state, … Continue reading
How Do You Build a Truly Creative Community?
May 21, 2014It’s not surprising, but the places we want to live in are the ones that have embraced and fostered creativity and sustainability. When asked about the qualities that people want in a region, they are experiential; we want a mix … Continue reading
Q&A with Molly de Aguiar
May 19, 2014This is the third installment of our new series featuring Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation staff here on the Dodge Blog. We’re going to check in with what they’re learning and thinking about as they visit with nonprofits around the state, … Continue reading
A Creative Recovery
October 21, 2013This month we mark the first anniversary of Hurricane Sandy crashing upon New Jersey and our neighboring states. While it was painfully obvious that Sandy was a monumental storm of the highest magnitude, I don’t think any of us realized … Continue reading
Exercise Your Creative Muscle!
February 25, 2013Have you read Martin Farewell’s recent blog Poetry Friday: “But I’m Not the Creative Type”? Martin is a creativity champion, and I am always grateful for his prolific musings on the subject of creativity! For as long as I can … Continue reading
Poetry Friday: “But I’m Not the Creative Type”
February 15, 2013Whenever there’s a discussion about creativity and education or the importance of the arts, inevitably someone will say, “But I’m not the creative type.” This is said with a variety of meanings. It can be self-deprecating, someone lamenting they always … Continue reading