Information for
Grant Seekers

Focus Areas
Application Process
Letters of Inquiry
End of Year Report
Grant Awards

Community Development and Entrepreneurship
We believe that government has largely abdicated its responsibility in the area of community development. Although non-profit organizations should not be in the position of having to fill the gap, they are. Funders must step forward and provide them with support.

We concentrate our grant making on the Alameda and Contra Costa Counties of the San Francisco Bay Area, with a focus on the development of self-sufficiency through entrepreneurship and community services.

Our Community Development program area has a restricted application process. Please refer to our Schedule information on our Application Process page.

Immigrant Issues and Human Rights
Immigration is a continuing source of vitality and rejuvenation of American society. We reject the anti-immigrant hysteria that swept the United States in the 1990’s, bringing with it the detention of thousands of immigrants by the Immigration and Naturalization Service.

We support projects that provide alternatives to detention, advocate on behalf of detained immigrants, and facilitate their successful integration into American society. We make grants to human rights projects on behalf of vulnerable populations whose basic rights are being sacrificed by repressive governmental or religious policies or for the sake of global economic interests.

Our Immigrant Issues/Human Rights program area has a restricted application process. Please refer to our Schedule information on our Application Process page.

Environmental Conservation
We have a sense of urgency about the state of the planet and the web of life of which we are all a part. As a result, we support a variety of approaches to preserving the environment, including legal action, scientific inquiry, legislative advocacy and direct action. We do not fund environmental education.

We are particularly interested in projects involving regional cooperation and those that combine conservation with environmentally sustainable development, giving local people a stake in conservation. In the Western United States we restrict our grant-making to Northern California. We almost never make grants in Oregon and Washington. We give grants on a range of issues from protection of old growth forests and rivers to the preservation and rebuilding of eastern Pacific fish stocks.

Our Environmental Conservation program area has a restricted application process. Please refer to our Schedule information on our Application Process page.

The Peace Process in the Middle East
We believe that both the Palestinian and Jewish people have a legitimate claim to their common homeland, and that a just and lasting resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is possible. The Firedoll Foundation funds organizations which agree that the people of Palestine and Israel have the right to share their ancient homeland in peace and security.

Given the dire conditions in the Occupied Palestinian Territories at this time, our current funding focus is on humanitarian assistance, economic development, and support of civil society in the West Bank and Gaza; support to organizations defending the internationally recognized human rights of the Palestinians living under occupation; and support of organizations working to end the Occupation.

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