Carpenter Foundation Grants
July 1, 2007 - June 30, 2008
Download the Carpenter Foundation booklet:
50 Years of
Growing Community
50 Years of Growing Community
In 2008 we celebrated the Carpenter Foundation’s 50th anniversary. It has been a year steeped in history as we have looked back to the Foundation’s beginnings. It has been a year of remembering Helen and Alfred Carpenter who established the Carpenter Foundation in 1958 and Jane and Dunbar Carpenter who led the Foundation for over 30 years. As we look forward it is with the knowledge that it is the wisdom, principles and heart of these 4 individuals that will continue to guide the Foundation in the future.
The major focus of the Foundation has remained constant over the past half century and that is to make grants in four areas: human services, education, the arts and certain public interest issues. The Foundation limits funding to these activities and to the geographic area of Jackson and Josephine Counties in order to make more effective and focused use of limited resources.
The Foundation is deeply concerned with the well-being of children and families and their relationship to their neighborhoods and communities. A parallel concern is the health of the web of agencies and organizations which serve them. It is vital that these agencies, public and private, work together to assist with the broad array of complexities that face families and communities today.
Of keen interest to the Carpenter Foundation are the nature and the characteristics of community life. These are evidenced by the opportunities offered low-income citizens, the quality of education, the breadth of experience in the arts, and such public policy issues as the environment and community planning, with emphasis on the long-range view.
The purpose of
the Carpenter Foundation is to add opportunity, choice, inclusiveness, enrichment and a climate for change for those living in the Rogue Valley.
The Foundation works in partnership
with other agencies, organizations
and public entities.