Education
HIPPY USA: A mother and son tell their story
As announced in April, HIPPY USA is our Education beneficiary this quarter. HIPPY stands for Home Instruction for Parents of Preschool Youngsters. Parents are their children's first, and ultimately constant, teacher. They work as a support organization by distributing their curriculum, consulting with agencies and schools using the curriculum, and promoting the HIPPY model of…
Read MoreHumanist Grants present evidence-based solutions in new beneficiaries
Foundation Beyond Belief’s Humanist Grants program chose four beneficiaries this quarter that highlight the use of evidence-based solutions in their methodology. Our new Poverty and Health beneficiary, World Bicycle Relief, lives by the motto, “Do it right, even if it takes a little longer,” which is why they used a long pilot period to test…
Read MoreLet us know what you want to hear from us
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Read MoreFBB announces Q1 2017 Humanist Grants beneficiaries
At the beginning of 2016, we made a commitment to Q1 beneficiaries to give a grant in 2016, and then a potential renewable grant in 2017 in order to show a longer term commitment, supply steady grant income, and to develop long-term relationships with beneficiaries to serve them better. Successive, unrestricted grants are viewed as best…
Read MoreFBB announces Compassionate Impact Grant – Natural World and Human Interaction with the environment
Since 2014, we have been fortunate to award three substantial grants for increasing the impact of innovative non-profits through program capacity building grants. Once again in 2017, FBB seeks to support organizations that are developing or broadening potentially transformative evidence-informed social innovations that solve critical community problems related to the problems faced between people and…
Read MoreWhat’s the role of literacy in “the homicide capital of the world”?
Last Friday, a gun fight broke out in front of Aldea de Las Mercedes School in San Salvador, El Salvador. ConTextos’ Teacher Trainers Enrique and Jennifer were working at the school when shots sent students and teachers scrambling. El Salvador suffers the highest homicide rate of any “peacetime” nation in the world. Rampant gang violence…
Read MoreSneak peek into our Q4 beneficiaries
We are thrilled to give you a sneak peek into our fourth quarter Humanist giving beneficiaries. Remember, these beneficiaries will show up on the Now Supporting page of our website on October 1 and you can change the amount you give to each beneficiary by going to your My FBB page in the top right-hand…
Read MoreZirwa teaches what she learns
We are humbled by students like fourth-grader Zirwa, who attends a Developments In Literacy (DIL) school in Sheikhupura [in Northeast Pakistan, near Lahore, Pakistan] and has taken it upon herself to share the knowledge she has gained with other less fortunate students. Zirwa explains, “I want to educate as many children as I can in…
Read MoreFoundation Beyond Belief presents five additional 2016 beneficiaries
During the past two quarters, Foundation Beyond Belief has presented beneficiary slates using newer philanthropic and innovative selection ideologies. Successive grant commitments strengthened our beneficiaries in Quarter 1 of 2016 and our third Compassionate Impact Grant in Quarter 2 of 2016 featuring Lakota Language Initiative of Thunder Valley Community Development Corporation. This quarter, we return to…
Read MoreFBB celebrates six years of work toward equality
March is Women's History Month and March 8 is International Women's Day, a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural, and political achievement of women, and a day to serve as a call to action for acceleration toward gender parity. Foundation Beyond Belief believes everyone has a right to live a full and equal life of dignity regardless…
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