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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 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.
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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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