Giving Preferences
The Charles Lafitte Foundation:
- prefers underwriting specific projects with distinct goals, and targets grants that will have a notable impact and make a material difference.
- looks for creativity, innovation and initiative.
- promotes inclusiveness and diversity, and likes projects that remove barriers to full economic and/or social participation in society.
- engages with its beneficiaries and requires follow-up reports and impact statements.
- reviews financials carefully and prefers organizational overhead costs to account for less than 15% of annual expenses.
- looks to empower organizations to achieve long term stability.
- does not usually support political organizations or religious-based programs.
- believes in a commonsense, business-like approach to addressing humane problems.
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