Grants Archive

Quarterly Grant Archive Past Humanist Grant Beneficiaries GO Humanity’s first program, Humanist Grants, was designed to unite humanist charitable giving and amplify our impact by selecting impactful, secular organizations on a quarterly basis to give small grants to. Starting in 2021, we transitioned from the 13 smaller grants a year to awarding one bigger, bolder…

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Grants

Grants GIVE TO HUMANIST GRANTS This Quarter’s Beneficiaries About FBB Grants   Each quarter our Humanist Grants staff selects four charitable organizations as quarterly beneficiaries, one in each of the following categories: Poverty and Health Human Rights Education Natural World We carefully select beneficiary organizations for impact and efficiency, and they must pass our rigorous vetting process. These beneficiaries…

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Humanist Grants Donor Survey Results

In September Foundation Beyond Belief (FBB) asked Humanist Grants (HG) donors to weigh in on a topic we’d been mulling over since we began the process of switching to our new donation system in 2017. The Legacy Donation System When FBB first started the HG program in 2010, our technology was simple. Our donations all…

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Humanist Grants Q4 beneficiaries deliver on innovation, research and community involvement.

Trees Water People

October means a new slate of our Humanist Grant beneficiaries! It's hard to believe that quarter four is already upon us, but we're thrilled to announce the nonprofits we will be supporting for the last three months of 2017. We look forward to our partnership with each of them. First is our Natural World beneficiary,…

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Humanist Grants present evidence-based solutions in new beneficiaries

Foundation Beyond Belief’s Humanist Grants program chose four beneficiaries this quarter that highlight the use of evidence-based solutions in their methodology. Our new Poverty and Health beneficiary, World Bicycle Relief, lives by the motto, “Do it right, even if it takes a little longer,” which is why they used a long pilot period to test…

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FBB announces Q1 2017 Humanist Grants beneficiaries

At the beginning of 2016, we made a commitment to Q1 beneficiaries to give a grant in 2016, and then a potential renewable grant in 2017 in order to show a longer term commitment, supply steady grant income, and to develop long-term relationships with beneficiaries to serve them better. Successive, unrestricted grants are viewed as best…

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Q2 2015 results reveal the power of large grants

Foundation Beyond Belief is pleased to announce the grant results for Q2 2015. In the Humanist Giving Program, we funded our second Compassionate Impact Grant to Starfish.  Starfish strives to mentor native Mayan girls in Guatemala and help them achieve the “infinite impact” for themselves, their families, and their community. Our grant of $50,000 enabled Starfish…

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FBB Enables Q1 Beneficiaries to reach further with larger grants

Akili Dada has been our Human Rights beneficiary this quarter. “…In Swahili, “akili dada” translates to “intelligent sister,” and that is the goal of Akili Dada – to build an intelligent sisterhood of talented young women and future leaders in Kenya….Program participants learn from other women and each other through mentorship and work to build…

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AFSC fights for immigrants’ human rights

AFSCBy Sarah Henry

Our current Challenge the Gap beneficiary, American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), often takes an active role in leading the charge for immigration reform. AFSC is working to ensure that all immigrants are given appropriate rights and treated humanely, an ideal that fits well with this group’s Quaker roots.

AFSC’s immigration reform goals are founded in compassionate and humane objectives, ones that we believe humanists can ideologically identify with. The AFSC’s basic principles include, among others: protecting the labor rights of all workers, respecting the human and civil rights of immigrants, and making family reunification a top priority.

In order to make their goals the reality for American immigrants, AFSC is working in Washington DC with the US government, as well as working directly with immigrant and refugee communities all over the country. AFSC has written an information packet about their goals and the ways in which they can be achieved, called “A New Path,” which can be downloaded at their website.

You can keep up with AFSC on their website, their Facebook page, and their YouTube channel. Not yet an FBB member? Join our Humanist Giving program now to support this amazing group.

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