Our funding priorities are shaped by a view of the Earth as one community, an interconnected web of life in which human society is an integral part:

Protect the Health and Environment of Communities Threatened by Toxics
Advance Environmental Justice
Promote a Sustainable Agricultural and Food System
Ensure Quality Reproductive Health Care as a Human Right
Foster an Environmentally Sustainable New York City

Through our grantmaking activities and internal policies and practices, we embrace diversity and challenge institutional and cultural discrimination, including, but not limited to, discrimination based on ethnic, racial, religious, age, sexual orientation, economic status, physical ability and gender.

In our view, social change movements require that all people have the opportunities and resources to actively participate in civic life. Therefore, we actively seek out organizations led by people of color and/or working in low income communities that foster such activism. We define people of color organizations as those where people of color are the primary decision-makers and constituents and whose mission and work are based on a race/ethnic consciousness.

We also seek to move away from a single issue approach to social change and encourage requests that address multiple priorities, as well as those that bring together organizations and activists from diverse movements. And we consider requests that address issues in rural and urban communities.

WHAT'S NEW:

Noyes Foundation in the Council on Foundation's Diversity Video and The California Endowment's Foundation Diversity Policies & Practices Toolkit

Grants Awarded, April, 2009

Noyes News - Special Earth Day Edition, April, 2009

Noyes News, April, 2009

Proxy Preview '09: Helping Foundations Align Investments and Mission

Philanthropy New York's 30 Grants in 30 Days - Noyes Foundation highlighted