Objectives I & II

Objective I: To establish the accountability of economic, social or governmental institutions, especially corporations, for the consequences and effects of their activities on the environment, and on people, their health, wellbeing, cultures, and communities.

Objective II: To address these social, political, economic, environmental, cultural or health issues in an integrated way by:


  • bringing together groups—often separated by narrow issue interests and by race, religion, gender, class, ethnicity, and national origin—into crosscutting constituencies based on common economic, social, and ethical concerns; and


  • creating both the possibilities and the demand for development of more systematic solutions to these issues, as well as the social basis needed for their implementation.


List of grants that fall under these Objectives:

Association of Black Foundation Executives, Inc. / General Support

Association of Joint Labor / Management Educational Programs / Writing from a Kindred Voice: The Workers’ Writing Project

Brit Tzedek v’Shaom Jewish Alliance for Justice and Peace/Thinking Nationally, Acting Locally

Center for a New American Dream/Building a Movement of Conscious Consumers

Center for Labor & Community Research/Illinois High Performance Manufacturing Initiative


Center on Budget and Policy Priorities/Combating Threats To Health Insurance Coverage for Low-Income Families

Ceres, Inc./ Sustainable Governance Project

Community Catalyst, Inc./Prescription Access Litigation Project

Council on Foundations, Inc / General Support

Educational Broadcasting Corporation / NOW on PBS

Environmental Health Coalition/ General Support

Enterprising Environmental Solutions, Inc./Center for State Climate Strategies

Foundation Center / General Support

Free Press/2005 National Conference for Media Reform

Future of Music Coalition, Inc./Artist Research Council, a Health Insurance Hotline and an Activism Camp for Musicians

Independent Sector/ General Support

Ishmael and Isaac/General Support

Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility/General Support

Interfaith Education Fund, Inc./Arizona Project

Jews for Racial and Economic Justice/Capacity Building for a Jewish Social Justice Movement: JFREJ, JUFJ, and Tekiah

National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy / General Support

National Interfaith Committee for Worker Justice/Low-wage Worker Initiatives

National Women’s Law Center/Health and Reproductive Right Project

New York Regional Association of Grantmakers / General Support

Nonprofit Coordinating Committee of New York/ General Support

People for the American Way Foundation/Project on American Values in Public Life

Research Foundation of the City University of New York/Urban Agenda/New York City Apollo Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, Inc./Carbon Disclosure Project

Third Sector New England, Inc / Resource Generation

Tides Center /Social Venture Network

Union for Reform Judaism/Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism

William J. Brennan Jr. Center for Justice, Inc./Economic Justice Project

William J. Brennan Jr. Center for Justice, Inc. /Free Expression Policy Project

Women & Philanthropy/ General Support