OUR FOCUS AREAS

Diversity, equity, and inclusion are central to our work. Our vision is a more equitable community for all, therefore we prioritize funding that supports communities that are historically and/or currently underserved with respect to socioeconomic status, race, identity, or ability.  

CHILD AND YOUTH EDUCATIONAL EQUITY

We seek to fund organizations working to improve educational equity, opportunity, or education-related services for children and youth from pre-K through high school in the areas of:

  • Early childhood education and development

  • Out-of-school time and summer learning

  • Programs that work to close achievement and opportunity gaps

  • Career and/or college readiness tools and skills for high school students

  • Arts education, cultural education, and creative expression

ENVIRONMENTAL EQUITY & SUSTAINABILITY

We seek to fund organizations working to ensure everyone has equal access to resources and safe spaces, across environmental issues in the areas of:

  • Access to environmental resources - healthy food, homes, water and green space

  • Countering environmental burdens - pollution in air, water, and land

  • Providing educational resources around sustainability and climate change preparedness

  • Advancing participation in the green workforce

  • Promoting systems change that includes meaningful and inclusive participation in the environmental decision-making process, that promotes environmental justice and equitable environmental policies

HOUSING AND HOME STABILITY 

We seek to fund organizations delivering trauma-informed services that focus on housing solutions and home stability for families, youth, and adults in the areas of:

  • Prevention of homelessness and helping people stabilize and keep their housing

  • Emergency, temporary, and transitional housing and shelters

  • Housing placement

  • Resources and support that help prevent adverse childhood experiences or provide healing resources for families experiencing housing/home instability

  • Wrap-around services that strengthen housing/home stability including mental and physical health services, recovery support, and domestic violence advocacy 

WOMEN’S ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT

We seek to fund organizations that advance the economic security and financial well-being of women by removing barriers to work in the areas of:

  • Job readiness - including skills training, trades, and education

  • Adult literacy and language proficiency

  • Financial literacy 

  • College and post-secondary success

  • Accessibility to affordable and reliable childcare

  • Accessibility to safe and affordable healthcare including physical, mental, dental, and reproductive health