S.H. Cowell Foundation Funding Priorities (Place-Based Grantmaking)

The Foundation's primary grantmaking strategy is place-based, seeking to make clusters of complementary grants in specific communities that serve the same children, youth, and families. The Foundation prioritizes communities in Northern or Central California experiencing acute and widespread poverty where people of color likely experience disparate outcomes, aiming to build more capable, responsive, and effective community organizations and institutions. Partnerships are long-term, exploratory,...