The Fordham Street Foundation seeks opportunities to promote the rights of our least advantaged children to thrive, grow and be enriched. The Foundation will support innovative programs that:
- Target minority academic achievement
- Provide superior
educational opportunities for our least advantaged children
- Improve
the academic or physical environment in schools least
able to address these needs
- Enrich the lives of homeless
children
- Prevent domestic violence
Currently, the Foundation is
limiting its review
and funding to
grant proposals that target
minority
academic achievement.
The Foundation will focus its efforts on human or direct services in these areas. The Foundation may also consider education, training and resource development. Requests for endowment or capital support are unlikely to be funded.
The Foundation will actively pursue opportunities to leverage
resources. This leverage may be gained by: seeking out organizations
that have done well leveraging their resources; encouraging
potential grantees to identify multiple funding sources in
their requests; and promoting interaction between the Foundation
and its grantees and among grantees.