Goal: Create youth to career pathways to take on the skills needed in the 21st century such as knowledge acquisition, creativity, innovation, critical thinking, problem solving, collaboration, media and technology literacy, self-direction and adaptability skills.  We believe that long term support models that include comprehensive educational, emotional, and financial support are best positioned to help break the cycle of generational poverty, trauma, and/or the school to prison pipeline, and create pathways to academic and social success..  Additional consideration is given to programs that integrate within their curriculum collaboration between educators and Industry.

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Focus Areas:

• Primary & Middle School: Provide children and youth a solid educational foundation, foster a life-long enthusiasm for learning, and open new opportunities to discover and experience.

• ​High School and Beyond: Graduate more students who have a broader awareness of the diversity of career path opportunities and are better prepared for post-secondary education and/or careers through high-quality career connected learning programs.  

Goal: We believe that "charity begins at home".  Even with global problems, we believe that the best solutions for those problems remain local;  that that the best, most lasting solutions occur when the people and communities most affected by the change they are seeking are enabled and given the power to make it happen. In order to improve outcomes, effective philanthropy cannot just be about giving financial support, but more importantly, about engaging with communities, listening to their voices, collaborating on solutions, and understanding their needs. 

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Focus Areas:

• Create social change that advances the educational, health, and economic well-being of disadvantaged youth and their families within the community.

• Improve community connectedness and unity

• Motivate involvement and empower communities to shape, create, and make change.

• Locally owned, locally staffed: Strong community involvement where recipients take an active role in volunteering, giving back, and making the program a success for the next generation.

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Goal: Create opportunities to address both the way we care for older persons today and in the future, and provide information and support to family members providing primary care.  The way we care for older persons today is not scalable to meet the expected growth in population; the costs for senior care and services continue to soar; and very little information and support are available to family members who provide primary care.  New solutions and step function improvements are needed to provide the necessary care and services that allow older persons to remain productive; to have an improved quality of life especially for older persons with special needs; and, enable them to remain active within their communities.  Solutions are also needed to support primary care family members with improved access to information and expertise for answering financial, legal, and health care questions.

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Focus Areas:

• Improving social connectedness & food security in older adults

• Improving the care of older adults, especially those with special needs

• Social services for primary care family members