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The Foundation supports projects both domestically
and internationally (with a particular international focus in
Latin America and South Africa). Generally speaking, the Foundation's
domestic programs support policy development, advocacy, coalition
building, research, legal and other strategies likely to impact
large classes of people or shape issues important to the Foundation's
mission. In its international funding, the Foundation also supports
organizations providing direct services.
The Overbrook Foundation strives to improve the lives of people
by supporting projects that protect human and civil rights, advance
the self sufficiency and well being of individuals and their communities
and conserve the natural environment.
In pursuit of its mission, the Foundation advances programs in
the Environment and Human Rights:
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The
Foundation's Human Rights Program joins together the
Foundation's commitment to international and domestic human
rights to support human rights work inside and outside of
the United States. It recognizes that all the work the Foundation
has traditionally supported is joined together by a commitment
to the values expressed in the Universal Declaration of Human
Rights-political, economic and social. The program investigates
and looks to support human rights activism of smaller human
rights organizations where activists are at particular risk
both domestically and globally (e.g., environmental activists,
journalists, Union Organizers, whistle blowers); continues
its support of major Human Rights Organizations (domestic
and global) who are core providers and, to the extent possible
and appropriate, links them to smaller groups. The Foundation
works to link together its focus on reproductive rights, LGBT
rights, reproductive health, HIV, trafficking of people and
other issues of sexuality. In doing so, it seeks to advance
support for gender rights and to eliminate discrimination
and marginalization based on gender.
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