Grants in the Education Program promote long-term institutional or field development, reform, or knowledge development in five priority areas: improving instruction, California reform, technology, universal education, and opportunity.
The Environment Program is working to respond to some of the most significant environmental challenges of our time. The program has three goals: to save the great ecosystems of the North American West; to reduce the environmental impacts of fossil fuel energy systems by promoting energy efficiency and renewable energy sources; and to build an infrastructure for environmental concerns among California's growing but still underrepresented populations in the L.A. basin and the Central Valley.
The newly-created Global Development Program will focus on two key areas for policy reform, broadly defined as “aid” and “trade.” The Program will make grants to increase the amounts and effectiveness of global development funds, and to reduce barriers to trade in agriculture that disadvantage developing country producers.
The Performing Arts Program is founded on the premise that the experience, understanding, and appreciation of artistic expression give value, meaning, and enjoyment to people’s lives. Its mission is to support artistic expression and its enjoyment through grantmaking aimed at the sustainability of high-quality San Francisco Bay Area organizations and to achieve this through the following broad objectives: Stimulating increased access to and participation in the arts; increasing exposure to and understanding of diverse cultural expressions, enhancing opportunities for creative expression for both artists and audiences; and promoting long-term organizational health.
The goal of the Population Program is to improve access to high-quality family planning and reproductive health care because of the benefits it brings to individuals, especially to the health and well-being of women and girls; to societies, by enabling them to better address critical development challenges; and to the entire planet, through stabilizing world population.