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The Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation promotes a sustainable and just social and natural system by supporting grassroots organizations and movements committed to this goal.
Our funding priorities are shaped by a view of the Earth as one community, an interconnected web of life in which human society is an integral part:
Protect the Health and Environment of Communities Threatened by Toxics
Advance Environmental Justice
Promote a Sustainable Agricultural and Food System
Ensure Quality Reproductive Health Care as a Human Right
Foster an Environmentally Sustainable New York City
Through our grantmaking activities and internal policies and practices, we embrace diversity and challenge institutional and cultural discrimination, including, but not limited to, discrimination based on ethnic, racial, religious, age, sexual orientation, economic status, physical ability and gender.
In our view, social change movements require that all people have the opportunities and resources to actively participate in civic life. Therefore, we actively seek out organizations led by people of color and/or working in low income communities that foster such activism. We define people of color organizations as those where people of color are the primary decision-makers and constituents and whose mission and work are based on a race/ethnic consciousness.
We also seek to move away from a single issue approach to social change and encourage requests that address multiple priorities, as well as those that bring together organizations and activists from diverse movements. And we consider requests that address issues in rural and urban communities.
WHAT'S NEW:
Noyes News, December, 2008
Noyes 60th Anniversary Page Added to Web Site
The Noyes Foundation’s Board of Directors has approved new language for the website’s Home Page and Grantmaking section to make more explicit our interest in and support for diversity and inclusiveness.
2008 Noyes Foundation Board and Staff Profile
2007 Noyes Foundation Grants by Race and Ethnicity of Organization
Noyes Supports California Bill on Foundation Diversity Disclosure
ALSO:
Letters of Inquiry now accepted via Internet or by mail
Note: To complete an existing online application, click here.
Grants Lists
Ann Wiener, Noyes Board Member and granddaughter of Charles F. Noyes, discusses diversity issues at Council on Foundation Summit Plenary (Wednesday, May 7 Breakfast)
Leslie Lowe, Noyes Board Chair and Director of the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibilty's Energy & Environment Program, speaks on the risks of investing in new coal plants
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