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Every year Bridgeway Foundation awards
grants that assist a broad array of organizations and
causes in the United States and abroad.
What We Support: Our Issue Areas
Our funding is allocated to a variety of “Issue Areas”:
Core Issue Areas
- Eliminating genocide
- Peace and reconciliation
- Human rights
Broader Issue Areas
- Early education
- Higher education
- Our Houston community
- International humanitarian aid and relief
With these issue areas in mind, the Foundation has a special interest in charitable groups motivated by these objectives —
- Cherishing the inherent value of every human life;
- Stopping destructive cycles of poverty and violence;
- Protecting the beacons of hope in conflict-ridden areas where the hope for peace is in danger of being extinguished;
- Providing access to education and economic opportunities;
- Rebuilding the lives of people afflicted by racial, political, and economic discrimination; and
- Giving hope and comfort to the impoverished, ill, and neglected of the world.
What We Look for in Grantees
In awarding grants, the Foundation is particularly interested in funding —
- Innovative approaches to solving community and societal problems;
- Approaches and activities that lead to systemic, sustainable change;
- Initiatives that, if proven successful, can generate long-term support from other sources and/or that can be replicated in other communities;
- Organizations that are at a crucial stage in their history (including organizations that have innovative ideas but have been unsuccessful in finding funding sources willing to risk supporting them);
- Entrepreneurial enterprises;
- Organizations that can leverage a Bridgeway Foundation grant;
- Programs that are scalable and replicable;
- Programs that focus on prevention;
- Programs that empower and promote self-sufficiency;
- Proposals that include an outrageous commitment on the part of the founder with compelling arguments for sustainable change;
- Organizations willing to take risks;
- Proposals that include personal sacrifice on the part of those involved.
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