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Successive grant commitments strengthen our beneficiaries
We at Foundation Beyond Belief feel a responsibility to provide adequate support to our beneficiaries and minimize the work that a nonprofit needs to do to obtain the funding they need to function. Developing donors, anywhere from small donors to large donors, can take multiple contacts, careful media attention, and incredible “footwork”. In the past,…
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…
Read MoreCompassionate Impact Grant Letter of Intent Due Soon
Foundation Beyond Belief is happy to inform our current, past, and perhaps future beneficiaries that our application period for our Compassionate Impact Grant, to be awarded in April 2016 is open. Members and friends, if you know of any worthy organizations, please invite them to look at the grant packet on our website. Foundation Beyond…
Read MoreFBB Hits $2 million mark in funds raised and distributed
Foundation Beyond Belief is proud to announce that it has reached the $2 million mark in funds raised and distributed to charities in the United States and around the world. In addition to small grants in the $10,000 range to dozens of organizations during that time, that total also includes larger Compassionate Impact Grants to…
Read MoreStarfish’s impact school offers change in educational model
In previous posts we have mentioned the plans of our compassionate impact grant recipient, Starfish, to open an impact school for middle- and high school-aged Guatemalan girls. The generous contributions of Foundation Beyond Belief members have helped launch the rigorous teacher training courses that will serve as the core of that school and the launch…
Read MoreFBB recognizes DSNI as Humanism at Work conference approaches
As Foundation Beyond Belief prepares for its second annual Humanism at Work conference, we look at one of our innovative Humanist Giving programs: the Compassionate Impact Grant (CIG). Chosen at the last quarter of 2014, our first CIG beneficiary was Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative (DSNI). DSNI is focused on raising the quality of life and…
Read MoreHow does our Compassionate Impact Grant Work?
During Q2 of 2015 (the current quarter) we used our Compassionate Impact Grant program to focus on a strong organization, increasing the impact of an innovative non-profit through a capacity building grant. FBB supports and increases the capacity of this non-profit organization that is developing and broadening transformative, evidence-informed, social innovations that solve critical community problems. Starfish was…
Read MoreCompassionate Impact Grant – New Generation Educators will unlock a Girl Pioneers Power
When choosing a beneficiary for our Compassionate Impact Grant, we do look at the entire organization, but we also ask our applicants to submit a proposal for a specific program. Starfish, our current CIG beneficiary, introduced us to its Girl Effect program, which is supplying mentors and promoting initiatives to secure education for those in…
Read MoreBBN Teams — Help Keep FBB Going for Another Year!
The whole year, FBB works hard to raise funds for other organizations: for our tremendous slate of charities in our Humanist Giving program, for organizations responding to disasters around the globe, and most recently for the the phenomenal Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative as part of our Compassionate Impact Grant Program. But come the end of…
Read MoreA Big Idea: The Compassionate Impact Grant
Foundation Beyond Belief is proud to announce our latest experiment in humanist giving: the FBB Compassionate Impact Grant. There’s a growing consensus among experts in effective philanthropy that fewer, larger, well-targeted grants have a greater long-term impact than small grants spread among many organizations. That finding was a major part of our decision in…
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