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:

 
 
 


The Foundation's Environment Program supports organizations working to develop better consumption and production habits in the United States and in Latin America (currently Brazil, Mexico and Ecuador only). In Latin America the primary objective is to conserve the planet's dwindling biodiversity.

 

 
 


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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