Foundations

We are immensely grateful to the following foundations for their financial support and contributions to the development and growth of ING’s work.

Intercultural Speakers Bureau (ICSB)

Silicon Valley Community Foundation
Silicon Valley Community Foundation provides visionary community leadership by identifying emerging challenges in the Silicon Valley region. It does so through research, grant making programs, and the ability to bring together diverse groups of problem-solvers, with the intention of building and energizing a community of philanthropists who strengthen the common good. SVCF offers expert guidance on the art and science of giving. The foundation helps donors create personalized charitable funds, corporate philanthropy programs, and philanthropic consulting services.

The San Francisco Foundation
The San Francisco Foundation is an incubator for community investment, original ideas, and passionate leadership. Since 1948, The San Francisco Foundation has been bringing together networks of philanthropists and civic leaders to support and build on the strengths of the community and make the San Francisco Bay Area the best place it can be. A leading agent of Bay Area philanthropy, it ranks among the nation’s largest community foundations in grant making and assets. The foundation cultivates a family of donors sharing a commitment to the Bay Area. Together, they give millions of dollars a year to foster strong communities, respond to local needs, and elevate public awareness.

Interfaith Speakers Bureau (IFSB)

Walter and Elise Haas Fund
In 1952, Walter A. Haas, Sr. and his wife, Elise Stern Haas, established the Walter and Elise Haas Fund as an enduring expression of their philanthropic commitment to San Francisco. The mission of the Walter & Elise Haas Fund is to help build a healthy, just, and vibrant society in which people feel connected to and responsible for their community. A healthy, just, and vibrant society is one in which individual members feel a personal stake in the well-being of the whole, and have equal access to the tools and opportunities that enable them to fully participate in community life. Such a society requires respect for diversity, addresses social and economic inequities, and allows its members to exercise both choice and responsibility. A solid foundation of community institutions and organizations with strong leadership supports the realization of this vision.

Rosenberg Foundation
The Rosenberg Foundation works with grantees, other funders, and experts to dismantle systemic barriers that stand in the way of equity, freedom, and opportunity for far too many Californians. They invest in regional and statewide campaigns; policy advocacy; power building and community organizing; and innovative and risky ideas. The Rosenberg Foundation amplifies grantees’ work through communications and convenings to reach stakeholders and partners with colleagues in philanthropy to leverage grantmaking and increase collective impact.

Shinnyo-en Foundation
Shinnyo-en Foundation’s mission is to promote greater harmony among human beings, bring forth compassion, and nurture future generations to build more caring communities. They believe this mission can be actualized through a widespread participation of individual service, and the thoughtful reflection that accompanies it. The foundation believes that a service orientation to life provides all people with the possibility of joy and peace. Because of this, the foundation focuses its work on nurturing service, especially in young people, and in promoting a certain kind of service that is based upon the alignment of an individual’s heart, mind and actions.

Hellman Foundation
With primary focus in the San Francisco Bay Area, the Hellman Foundation works to build equity and opportunity, to advance knowledge, and to foster health, science, the arts, innovation, and creativity.
Since the Foundation’s launch in late 2011, they’ve focused on supporting organizations and initiatives working in the Bay Area. They strive to be strategic in our philanthropy to ensure they help meet local pressing needs and bolster the impact of our partner organizations. As they partner with local leaders and organizations, they are learning, listening, and asking questions.

Islamic Speakers Bureau (ISB)

American Muslim Community Foundation
The American Muslim Community Foundation was founded in 2016 and is the first grassroots Islamic community foundation in the United States. The American Muslim Community Foundation streamlines Muslim philanthropy by creating donor advised funds, distributing grants, and building endowments. The foundation works closely with families on their charitable giving to serve nonprofit organizations and the greater community.

INGYouth

Interfaith Youth Core
Interfaith Youth Core is a national non-profit organization working towards an America where people of different faiths, worldviews, and traditions can bridge differences and find common values to build a shared life together. IFYC partners with American colleges and universities, because campus is where young people learn to be citizens and leaders and where issues of diversity and difference are explored intellectually and experienced personally and up-close. It offers online training and learning to help equip interfaith leaders with the skills and knowledge required to address issues of worldview diversity and advance interfaith cooperation on campus. It also provides grants and other funding opportunities to help interfaith leaders turn good ideas into action.

Healthcare Diversity Seminar

The California Endowment
The California Endowment is a private, statewide health foundation with a mission to expand access to affordable, quality health care for underserved individuals and communities, and to promote fundamental improvements in the health status of all Californians. The California Endowment’s Health Happens Here campaign forms the core of its work. It challenges us to think about people’s heath beyond the doctor’s office and beyond the good vs. bad choices people make. The California Endowment was established in 1996 as a result of Blue Cross of California’s creation of its for-profit subsidiary, WellPoint Health Networks. Since then, the endowment has invested in health broadly, from strengthening the safety net for families struggling with poverty to diversifying the health care workforce.

The Health Trust
The vision of The Health Trust is to make Silicon Valley the healthiest region in America—a place where every resident can achieve optimal health throughout their lifetime, no matter their background, income, race, ethnicity or age. The Health Trust believes that health care does not just take place in a doctor’s office and clinic or hospital. For everyone to achieve optimal health, the community itself must become a place that supports the health of all its residents. With a strong emphasis on prevention, the foundation focuses its work through three initiatives: Healthy Living, Healthy Aging, and Healthy Communities. For the goals of each initiative, The Health Trust works through grant making, direct services and programs, partnerships, and policy and advocacy.

ING Affiliates

Pillars Fund
Pillars is an innovative foundation that harnesses wealth in the American Muslim community to build power and create influence around the issues that are most important to Muslim Americans. Pillars is led by American Muslims, with an emphasis on building a donor network comprised of community members. It also works closely with major foundations supporting efforts in our community. Pillars invests in American Muslim organizations, leaders, and storytellers to build stronger communities where people’s difference, as well as their similarities, are understood and celebrated. All of Pillars’ work is inspired by Muslim tradition, which includes respect, conviction, sacrifice, action, and generosity.

The El-Hibri Charitable Foundation
The El-Hibri Charitable Foundation is committed to building a better world by embracing the universally shared values of Islam—peace and social justice—through a rights-based approach to community engagement and the empowerment of disadvantaged people. The foundation promotes education through its One World Youth Project, offering a global competence curriculum to middle schools around the world. El-Hibri’s annual Peace Education Prize, established in 2007, recognizes leading peace educators who have made significant contributions to the field. In the near future, the Foundation will launch the annual Youth Peace Education Scholarship for graduate level study. El-Hibri’s programs and grants promote knowledge about religious diversity in the United States and the value of interfaith dialogue and collaboration.

Capacity Building

The Civic Engagement Fund
The Civic Engagement Fund — a pooled fund coordinated by Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders in Philanthropy (AAPIP) — was initiated in 2006, for the sake of investing in and raising the visibility of Arab, Middle Eastern, Muslim and South Asian (AMEMSA) communities. The CEF supports sixteen AMEMSA organizations to increase their individual and shared capacities around issue areas of common concern; to build ownership around their own capacity development; and to better serve their communities through collective action. Since its inception, the CEF has been based on a learning model that creates avenues for shared learning and understanding on the part of our philanthropic partners and grantee partners, as well as AAPIP as drivers of the process. AMEMSA communities, while serving and representing ethnically and culturally distinct and diverse constituencies, collectively continue to face heightened challenges such as public and media scrutiny, misunderstanding and discrimination. More than a decade after 9/11 the challenges are daunting, yet the opportunities to support, invest and learn are immense.

Knight Foundation
Knight Foundation is a national foundation with strong local roots that invests in journalism, in the arts, and in the success of cities where brothers John S. and James L. Knight once published newspapers. Their goal is to foster informed and engaged communities, which they believe are essential for a healthy democracy.