Our Donors share a vision of people being healthy, educated and economically self-sufficient.
Their priorities guide our grant management services.
Our Donors share a vision of people being healthy, educated and economically self-sufficient.
Their priorities guide our grant management services.
Vulnerable people are at the core of our
Donors’ Investment Framework.
Our Donors’ granting program is focused on creating the conditions – individual as well as systemic – necessary for people to have the opportunity to realize their full potential and prosper.
The Investment Framework acknowledges the influence of the family, community and sector systems in which people live. It recognizes these dynamic, interrelated systems are affected by the policy and research environments in which they operate.
Our Donors consider requests in support of programs, buildings and capital assets, technology, capacity building, general operations, endowments and research.
REALIZING POTENTIAL
Of economically disadvantaged children, youth and families
Our Donors invest in education, health, housing stability and economic security
Our Donors believe in supporting people who have the ability and desire to learn and help themselves. Succeeding in school, gaining meaningful employment and pursuing prosperity, finding stable housing and improving mental and physical health are all steps on the journey toward economic self-sufficiency.
GIVING IMMEDIATE ASSISTANCE
TO PEOPLE WHO ARE ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED, VULNERABLE, SICK OR FACING AN IMMEDIATE THREAT
Our Donors invest in food, shelter, safety, access to health care, basic literacy and crisis intervention
Our Donors believe there are times when people need a helping hand. Immediate assistance that addresses survival, safety and basic needs can offer a necessary breathing space. Once immediate pressures have eased, individuals and their families have the opportunity to realize their potential.
APPLIED RESEARCH
In support of our Donors’ vision
Our Donors believe in the application of late-stage social science and health research based in community settings and focused on moving vulnerable populations toward health, education and economic self-sufficiency. New ideas and robust thinking lead to innovation, establish best practices and identify effective interventions and programmatic solutions. Community partners allow for the application of research and the opportunity to affect measurable change for vulnerable populations.
SUPPORTIVE SYSTEMS
CREATE CONDITIONS THAT FOSTER HEALTH, EDUCATION AND ECONOMIC SELF-SUFFICIENCY
Our Donors invest in
families, communities and nonprofit sector systems to improve outcomes for vulnerable people
Our Donors believe families, communities and the nonprofit sector are the primary systems that support people on their journey to education, health and economic self-sufficiency. Effective family functioning results in positive outcomes for both children and parents. Community initiatives can solve complex problems and address systemic issues at the root of poverty. A strong and well-resourced nonprofit sector can improve the human condition with the delivery of effective programs and services. When supportive family, community and sector systems foster individual initiative, economically disadvantaged people move toward prosperity.
PRESERVING FREEDOM & LIBERTY
For a free and prosperous society
Our Donors invest in the protection of individual freedoms, interventions that support individual choice, private markets, competition and entrepreneurial thinking and non-government solutions to economic and social issues
Our Donors believe the ideals of a liberal democracy combined with the rule of law and a strong market economy create the best opportunity for people to flourish and achieve economic self-sufficiency. Their interests are focused on individual and economic freedom and liberty; transparency and accountability of government and the press; and the protection of free thought and debate of ideas in the public sphere. They support initiatives designed to create conditions that allow individuals to reach their full potential without undue regulatory burdens – to take risks and reap the benefits of their individual initiative and hard work.