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Update on our giving for 2008
The Foundation is currently not accepting proposals for new funding. We will be revisiting this issue in August 2008. Please visit this page again in late August for updates. If the information online appears out-of-date, feel free to email the foundation’s executive director.
Overview
The Daphne Foundation supports programs that confront the causes and consequences of poverty in the five boroughs of New York City. We have a particular interest in grassroots and emerging organizations engaging their members in the creation and implementation of long-term solutions to intractable social problems.
We believe a foundation should fund in a manner that reinforces and facilitates the work of the programs it funds and that the most inventive and humane solutions to social problems often come from the people most affected by those problems.
The Foundation gives preference to organizations that:
| • | Address the systemic or root causes of poverty; |
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| • | Focus on families, youth and children; |
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| • | Embrace marginalized and disenfranchised communities; |
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| • | Are grassroots organizations with limited access to funding; |
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| • | Utilize proven strategies for systemic change such as advocacy, organizing, or activism; |
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| • | Include their participants in management, planning and/or staffing; |
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| • | Build upon the pre-existing strengths of communities; |
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| • | Promote the self-sufficiency of their participants; |
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| • | Build evaluation practices into their programming. |
The Daphne Foundation does NOT give grants to:
| • | Organizations outside the five boroughs of New York City; |
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| • | Individuals; |
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| • | Capital campaigns; |
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| • | Organizations or individuals that distribute propaganda, or specific attempts by organizations to influence legislation or the outcome of any public election; |
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| • | Organizations that discriminate on the basis of gender, race, ethnicity, class, religion, age, sexuality, or physical ability in their hiring practices. |
If you have specific questions regarding our mission and/or funding interests feel free to contact the executive director, Yvonne Moore via email at yvonne@daphnefoundation.org.
| Application Forms • Organizational Profile.doc • Common Application Form.pdf |
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| "Daphne has funded us on the premise that, as the people most impacted by the child welfare system, we are the experts on how the system needs to change." —Mike Arsham, Executive Director Child Welfare Organizing Project |
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