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THIS GRANT’S FOCUS: Education, Children’s Advocacy, Arts, Healthcare, Child Welfare, Research
Deadline: Ongoing
“The Charles Lafitte Foundation (CLF) supports innovative and effective ways of helping people help themselves and others around them to achieve healthy, satisfying and enriched lives. Diverse in scope, The Charles Lafitte Foundation (CLF) supports four primary causes: education, children’s advocacy, medical research & initiatives, and the arts. The foundation is flexible in its approach, sometimes giving a one-time grant to initiate a specific project while also making annual contributions. It looks for a solid track record of setting and meeting objectives, and an inventive approach to problem solving.
Giving Preferences:
- prefers underwriting specific projects with distinct goals, and targets grants that will have a notable impact and make a material difference
- looks for creativity, innovation and initiative
- promotes inclusiveness and diversity, and likes projects that remove barriers to full economic and/or social participation in society
- engages with its beneficiaries and requires follow-up reports and impact statements
- reviews financials carefully and prefers organizational overhead costs to account for less than 15% of annual expenses
- looks to empower organizations to achieve long term stability
- does not usually support political organizations or religious-based programs
- believes in a commonsense, business-like approach to addressing humane problems.”
Funder: The Charles Lafitte Foundation (CLF)
Eligibility: Possible recipients must be a certified 501(c)(3) organization to be considered for any grant.
Amount: Unspecified
Contact: Link.
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