Humanist Giving
Hidden in Plain Sight – The Environmental Impacts Of Some of Our Favorite Brands
Consider this: 250 billion single-use coffee cups per year; they are made from forests, and they can’t be recycled. How do you even begin to approach an issue at that scale?
Read MoreWelcome Quarter 1 Beneficiaries!
Welcome to 2020 and welcome to our first quarter beneficiaries! This quarter we are re-featuring two previous Compassionate Impact Grant beneficiaries and two brand new beneficiaries. Pueblo a Pueblo’s values to counteract the effects of colonialism with culturally appropriate interventions align very closely with FBB’s values. FBB is proud to support The Tandana Foundation’s strategies…
Read MoreBeneficiary blog— NCSE: What Does the Evidence Say?
A bag of paper bones. That’s what instantly comes to Turtle Haste’s mind when asked to describe a pivotal moment in her long and distinguished career as a science educator. She was a graduate student at Oregon State University, studying with Norman Lederman—“Mr. Inquiry,” Haste calls him—when she and her classmates were presented with the…
Read MoreResolve
Today, we're asking you to resolve with us. What does that mean?
Read MoreBeneficiary guest blog— Center for Biological Diversity: “Mobilizing for the Wild”
There’s nothing quite like harnessing the power of the people for good. Over the past couple of years, I’ve been proud to be part of a movement that’s re-energizing grassroots activism aimed at protecting endangered wildlife and the most important places where they live. The Center for Biological Diversity is often rightly noted for its…
Read MoreAnnouncing our Quarter 4 beneficiaries!
Where are they now? Some of our first beneficiaries are coming back for the fourth quarter of 2019, bigger and better than ever.
Read More“A People of Nowhere.”
Two years ago, Myanmar’s military launched a violent crackdown against the Muslim Rohingya population. Last week, local regulators compounded the Rohingya's sense of isolation by ordering a halt to all cellphone service in the area of their camps. Imagine that your own government has burned your villages into the ground, attempted to kill you, and…
Read MorePueblo a Pueblo: Set Up For Success
“This is the most cohesive group we’ve partnered with,” says Genaro Simalaj, Pueblo a Pueblo’s Senior Beekeeping Project Technician. “They work very well together, and they are well-organized—and as a result, their hives are more stable and more successful than we’ve seen from any other partner group at this stage in the project.” They are…
Read MoreAnnouncing FBB’s 3rd quarter Compassionate Impact Grant Beneficiary: Pueblo a Pueblo
Foundation Beyond Belief usually chooses four beneficiaries to receive grants each quarter in the categories of Poverty & Health, Human Rights, Education, and the Natural World. However, one quarter per year we instead have an open, competitive process to award one innovative organization with the game-changing Compassionate Impact Grant. This grant is given to organizations whose programs are demonstrably…
Read MoreBeneficiary guest blog: Inkululeko
As citizens of a nation just over two decades into democracy, we know that achieving success in the next two decades relies on equipping capable, educated agents of change. Those agents of tomorrow? They’re in our classroom today. A Department of Basic Education report shows that in South Africa, less than 20% of students finish…
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