The foundation endeavors to create a just and equitable society across lines of religious difference. We partner with faith-related nonprofits that are community builders, educators, and public conversation conveners who address unjust practices and systems to cultivate strong, resilient, and plural local populations. Listening to our grantees, the we support the adaptation and creation of generative, peaceful solutions. We challenge our grantees to be strategic and responsive to needs on the ground, encouraging goal-focused work that seeks measurable impact. Our grantees respect and learn from all faith traditions and beliefs, and work at the intersection of religious and ideological divides: shared human values. Their goal is to help others grow to their fullest potential in mind, body, and spirit.
Our partners in Action: Interfaith America
Interfaith America partners with colleges and universities to prepare the next generation of leaders to advance interfaith cooperation in American society. The national nonprofit works toward its vision of a pluralistic, less polarized country by offering various programs and resources to campus leaders, organizing trainings and community-building opportunities, and advancing research on best practices in religious diversity.
The Osprey Foundation provides general operating support to Interfaith America to implement its strategic plan. Specifically, the organization’s recent goals include: facilitating the growth of model interfaith environments in higher education that seek to actively advance interfaith cooperation in all facets of campus life; nurturing the development of interfaith leaders and alumni; and contributing to an interfaith knowledge base.
What We Are Reading
Effective philanthropy stays aware of cultural changes that affect a grantee’s field and impact. Faith communities can participate in standing up against racism, as these communities understand that all people are God’s people. We see the current moment as an example of interreligious cooperation overlapping with racial equality and access to good health care.
The Chronicle of Philanthropy recently published an article by IFYC’s founder, Dr. Eboo Patel, and the Public Religion Research Institute’s founder, Dr. Robert P. Jones, that makes a case for philanthropy to partner with faith-based nonprofits to achieve healthy outcomes for as many Americans as possible.
We are also reading White Too Long: The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity by Robert P. Jones.