Since our founding, the Jolley Foundation has provided meaningful funding to organizations for projects and initiatives that align with our mission.
We are committed to using all forms of capital (social, moral, intellectual, reputational, and financial) to partner with organizations and people who share our vision of a just, compassionate, and vibrant community.
Our goal is to invest in initiatives that make a tangible impact on addressing poverty and discrimination. This goal often directs our funding toward programs and initiatives that create the best opportunities for children to thrive and for families to succeed in an environment that is healthy and supportive.
To make that happen, the social and governmental systems which create that environment must function effectively, efficiently, and justly. Increasingly we support work that recognizes the interdependence of issues such as educational access, health equity, and financial stability, develops strategies to tackle them holistically, and includes advocacy for policy change as a key component.
How We Advance Our Mission
We will listen to and amplify the voices of those with lived experiences in making our funding decisions by supporting organizations that prioritize these voices and recognize the multi-dimensional nature of systemic change.
We will encourage cultivation of grassroots advocacy to remove barriers to self-sufficiency and connections with grasstops advocates to form social justice coalitions by contributing to initiatives grounded in community power-building for strategic, long-term impact.
We will promote learning and design thinking within the nonprofit community by funding meaningful capacity-building work, transformative leadership development and well-reasoned risk-taking.
We will foster collaboration and collective impact among nonprofit partners by contributing to initiatives that eliminate duplication of effort and maximize effectiveness of each partners’ strengths in effecting systemic change. To this end, we also commit to leveraging our relationships with local, regional, and national philanthropic partners to grow investments in local efforts.
We will invest in neighborhood-centered development that prioritizes wealth building for existing community residents rather than simply attracting wealth in a way that leads to gentrification and displacement. This includes supporting initiatives that promote inclusive economic growth.
