The Christine and Katharina Pauly Charitable Trust, established in 1985, aims to support and promote quality educational, health, and human services for underserved populations in Springfield, Missouri, and the surrounding region. It focuses particularly on organizations that aid children and those that assist older adults, created under the wills of Hazel Katharina Pauly and Frieda Christine Oleta Pauly.
The grant program by the Christine and Katharina Pauly Charitable Trust focuses on three main areas: Education, Health, and Human Services. It aims to:
Education: Improve systemic school functions, emphasizing management, teacher quality, and the academic needs of disadvantaged children. It supports initiatives that promote effective teaching, educational opportunities for disadvantaged students, improve governance, enhance nonprofit and school leadership, and strengthen strategic college and university initiatives.
Health: Address the needs of vulnerable groups including low-income families, frail older adults, adults with disabilities, the homeless, and those with severe diseases by improving health care delivery for indigent and uninsured populations, and addressing health problems intertwined with social issues.
Human Services: Support agencies providing critical services and adapting to policy changes, thereby maintaining the community's safety net.
Most grants from the Pauly Trust last one year, supporting systemic improvements in education, health care access for vulnerable groups, and the strengthening of human services agencies.