Foundations
The Overbrook Foundation strives to improve the lives of people by supporting projects that protect human and civil rights, advance the self-sufficiency and well being of individuals and their communities and conserve the natural environment. The Foundation’s Human Rights Program champions the human rights of marginalized groups - indigenous peoples, women, sexual and other minorities - in the U.S., Latin America and South Africa.
The mission of the Wallace Global Fund is to promote an informed and engaged citizenry, to fight injustice, and to protect the diversity of nature and the natural systems upon which all life depends. The Fund seeks to further its mission generally through systemic change as well as fundamental public policy shifts.
The Libra Foundation believes that all people are born with equal and inalienable rights and fundamental freedoms and have a right to live in a healthy environment and in peaceful, just and equitable societies. The Foundation funds social and economic justice organizations that integrate human rights into their work in and across the following priority areas:
- Peace and Justice
- Environmental Sustainability (with an emphasis on environmental justice)
- Women’s Rights (with an emphasis on reproductive rights, economic justice and personal security)
The Rohatyn Group
The Tides mission is to partner with philanthropists, foundations, activists and organizations across the country and around the globe to promote economic justice, robust democratic processes, and the opportunity to live in a healthy and sustainable environment where human rights are preserved and protected.
The Funding Exchange is a growing network of 16 public foundations and a national office that together grant nearly $15 million annually to grassroots organizations working for social, racial, economic and environmental justice around the country. They are committed to the eradication of all social injustices.
Jane Smith Turner Foundation
A private family grant-making foundation, the Jane Smith Turner Foundation’s funding priorities include the arts, children’s health and education and the environment.
The New World Foundation believes global and national social change begins at the local level. The Foundation seeks to help progressive community activists in the United States and around the world build stronger alliances for social justice, civil rights, economic and electoral issues since 1954.
Calvert Foundation is a great fan of Shared Interest. We believe that support for post-apartheid South Africa is very dear to the heart of all SRI investors. Shared Interest makes it possible for us to promote microenterprise and low-income housing, both central to creating a just and participatory society, while mitigating against thorny foreign exchange and other country-risk factors. Shared Interest provides a great service—linking the Socially Responsible.
— Shari Berenback, Calvert Foundation
A Poverty Alleviation Commitment was made to Shared Interest through the Clinton Global Initiative. The 2005 commitment for “Escape from Poverty” included an investment in the guarantee loan fund and a ten year pledge for operating support.
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