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Public Welfare Foundation
Category: Social Change
DescriptionThe Foundation seeks for carefully defined points where an infusion of energy, expertise, and funds can set in motion systemic changes leading to improvement in the lives of people in need. Beginning in 2008, the Foundation will focus on three programs where it is hoped that grantmaking can serve as a catalyst for strategic reforms that will impact many Americans. These three programs are criminal and juvenile justice, health reform, and workers’ rights. The Foundation’s criminal and juvenile justice program supports organizations working for a fairer, more effective, and more enlightened criminal justice system. Of particular interests are organizations with strategies to lower the rates of incarceration and eliminate disparate treatment of African Americans and Latinos who constitute disproportionately high percentages of the prison population. The goal of the health reform program is to assure that the voice of the consumer is heard, particularly at the state and local levels. The program is interested in the development and growth of strong, inter-reliant, and strategically-arrayed systems of advocacy with expertise in policy, health law, fiscal analysis, issue campaigns, communications, organizing community and interfaith groups, and building coalitions. The workers’ rights program seeks to improve the lives of working people, especially those most vulnerable to exploitation, such as contingent workers, by ensuring their basic legal rights to safe, healthy, and fair conditions at work. Applicants are asked to submit an online letter of inquiry of up to five pages. Former programs being phased out include: Civic Participation Fund, Community Development, Environment, Human Rights and Global Security, Reproductive and Sexual Health, and Youth.
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