Grant Details

The Louis and Harold Price Foundation was established in 1951. The foundation currently supports programs related to the following topics:

• Arts & Culture - The foundation supports excellence in the arts with an emphasis on education. Unsolicited programs in this area are rarely funded.
• Children & Youth - The foundation realizes the importance and need for programs and services that positively impact today's youth.
• Education - The Foundation is committed to excellence in education with an emphasis on innovative approaches to engaging students of all ages. In line with its other interest areas, the Foundation encourages economic and ethnic diversity of students and faculty.
• Entrepreneurship - Grants for entrepreneurship education and training programs in this area are focused primarily on higher education, but the foundation will also consider programs that engage a wider audience, such as high school students, women's groups and the urban poor.
• Environment - A clean, healthy and sustainable environment for all living things - for this and for future generations - is a goal of the Foundation.
• Health - The Foundation's focus on health care supports excellence in research, training, health care services, and outreach to the poor and medically underserved. The Foundation recognizes the importance of mental health treatment and family planning services as integral components of health care delivery.
• Human Social Services - The Foundation focuses on programs that provide food, shelter and supportive servcies to the most vulnerable members of society - homeless people, abused and neglected children, families in crisis, the elderly, and people with physical and developmental disabilities. Of particular interest are programs that encourage and support independence and self-sufficiency.
• Medical Research - Grants in the area of medical research are generally initiated by the Board of Trustees. Unsolicited proposals in this area are rarely funded.
• Civic & Community and Jewish Related Causes - The Price Family maintains its historic commitment to Jewish causes, as well as civicorganizations in the trustees' local communities.