Our Grantmaking Approach 

We center our grantmaking on two core principles. 

Racial Equity

While we organize our work around two distinct program areas, we view racial inequities in our public schools and in our housing policies as inextricably intertwined, as we see for example in how many school district boundaries map to redlining patterns. We prioritize racial equity in our grantmaking as the central way to address historically rooted and ongoing disparities in educational access and outcomes, economic mobility, and stable and affordable housing. We intentionally invest in solutions that seek to redress these disparities and in organizations led and informed by people of color who are most proximate to the work and have the most at stake in change and progress.

Doubling Down and Breaking New Ground

We are committed to investing in what we know works. We often support proven models that aspire to grow and increase their reach and impact. At the same time, we know that without new approaches we will continue to see the same results so we also seek opportunities to be founding or early supporters of innovative efforts to reimagine existing solutions and seed or scale new ones.