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Our Priorities

Currently, the Foundation's grant making priorities are:

Education

We believe education provides people with the opportunity to expand their talents and capabilities. Through our grantmaking, we hope to inspire them to reach their full potential both as individuals, and as contributing citizens of a greater community. We are especially interested in programs that make quality education accessible to those who are personally committed.

Our education grants fall into three categories:

Within this framework, we are currently investing in programs that promote:

    • Leadership and Teaching
    • Liberty, Citizenship and Free Enterprise
    • Reading and Literacy
    • Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM)

Public Health

Our interest in public health is closely aligned with our Education priority. We believe that by investing in programs that maintain, restore and improve people’s physical condition, we boost our society’s overall productivity and allow individuals the opportunity to improve their lives, and those of their fellow citizens.

Our public health grants fall into three categories:

Within this framework, we are currently investing in:

    • Early Childhood Development
    • Market-based Solutions to Public Health Problems
    • Nutrition and Fitness
    • Reproductive Health

Scientific Research

We are interested in programs on the cutting edge of research in specific areas of interest to our Directors that are underfunded or not yet eligible for funding by governmental programs. These programs are typically sponsored by top research institutions, which provide quality assurance oversight and accountability that may not be possible in a less structured environment. Further, the programs often involve pre-doctoral and post-doctoral scientists who are beginning their research careers. In addition to promoting the work of young researchers, we are particularly interested in programs that encourage them to remain engaged in research in their field of interest.

Specific areas in which we currently have interest are:

Physical Sciences

Evolutionary Developmental Biology   (read more)A field of biology which synthsizes embryology, molecular and population genetics, comparative morphology, paleontology and molecular evolution to understand the evolution of biodiversity at a mechanistic level.

Medical Research

    • We partner with leading medical research institutions to fund programs which seek to develop new, innovative clinical interventions for chronic conditions as well as highly treatable conditions which negatively impact the productivity of large segments of the population. 
    • In all cases, we focus our medical research funding in areas that improve the quality of life as distinct from solely extending life.
    • Our Directors review this grant category annually and request the staff to pursue grant opportunities in areas of specific interest.  The Foundation does not accept grantseeker inquiries in medical research.

 

The Foundation does not accept granseeker inquiries in medical research.