Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation

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The Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation was created in 1973, when, upon her death on August 13, 1973, Geraldine Rockefeller Dodge left $85 million to fund the new institution. Dodge was the youngest child of Standard Oil tycoon William Rockefeller and his wife Almira Geraldine Goodsell.

The mission of the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation is to support and encourage those educational, cultural, social and environmental values that contribute to making our society more humane and our world more livable.

Every other year, in even numbered years, the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation presents the Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival, the largest poetry event in North America.