Funding Priorities
Five Bridges Foundation is committed to supporting low-income and disenfranchised families in Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, San Francisco, and San Mateo Counties. The goal of the Foundation is to stabilize lives in crisis and create opportunities to build self-sustaining and healthy futures. To accomplish this, the Foundation will focus attention on the following priority areas:
- Strengthening Families
- Helping to End Homelessness
Strengthening Families
We support organizations working with low-income and homeless parents and their children to strengthen the family unit, support young people in crisis situations, and motivate youth to overcome poverty-related obstacles in order to lead productive lives as adults. Grantmaking will be directed to organizations serving such areas as:
- Addiction and recovery programs for parents with children
- Domestic violence programs
- Early childhood development
- Legal rights that protect families in crisis
- Parenting skills
- Runaway, homeless, foster, and judicially-involved youth
- Rape crisis programs
- Youth mentoring and leadership development initiatives
Helping to End Homelessness
We support organizations that provide shelter, services, and a self-sustaining exit strategy for homeless families. In addition to safety-net services, the Foundation supports efforts that prevent low-income parents and their children from slipping into homelessness. Grantmaking will be directed to organizations serving such areas as:
- Emergency shelter
- Employment development
- Homeless support services
- Legal rights
- Life skills training, including financial literacy
- Meal programs
- Low-income housing
- Transitional housing