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White Family Foundation


The White Family foundation seeks to provide meaningful and strategic support for arts, education and healthcare non-profit organizations serving our communities to enable their long-term success in and achievement of their missions. Their values are community, courage, faith, integrity, and opportunity. This foundation started in the 1990’s with a family business with the leadership of John Jr., John Hazen White, and with his wife Mary Tefft White. They began to contribute significant gifts to educational institutions and arts organizations.
They receive funding from private donations, a wealthy family and Taco industries. There was not much information online.
They give funds to programs that address the following priorities
  • Arts, culture, humanities
  • Education and youth development
  • Financial literacy
  • Healthy choices
  • Housing and homelessness
  • Hunger and food security
  • Science and technology
  • Workforce development
QUESTIONS: What do they look for in the application to determine who gets funding?
After our class discussion on who holds the power in nonprofits I have noticed that there are no people of color on the White Families board of directors. This is more of a statement than a question.

Comments

  1. UnknownMarch 20, 2018 at 6:23 PM

    Hey Kristen! Love your QUESTION as I had a similar one on my org that I wrote about. Also love love love the statement as it is true. I think this is a time where we can see all our classes fall together (I just got out of swrk 325) this for sure fits into this topic. Finally thank you for simply putting your blog straightforward. I feel like I really understand this foundation without having to go to the website. Have a good snow day!

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  2. Victoria RestlerMarch 27, 2018 at 7:30 AM

    The White Family Foundation is certainly very...ummmm....WHITE!

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  3. Emily TwitchellApril 4, 2018 at 2:35 PM

    I agree with the comments. How its very white and also how its very diversity

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