EBI Foundation Grant

The Ensign-Bickford Foundation will consider requests in the following areas, with priority to Education and Environment:

• Education

  • Accredited educational institutions
  • Special interests programs or scholarships for underprivileged students
  • Programs using new creative approaches and methods
  • University programs promoting fields of interest to the Company
  • Programs encouraging continuing education (e.g., adult literacy programs).

• Environment

  • Organizations concerned with the stability and improvement of ecological systems
  • Organizations that provide relief from the effects of both natural or human caused imbalances and disasters

• Health and Welfare

  • Public service organizations such as community funds, social welfare organizations
  • Health organizations such as hospitals or other health groups
  • Local hospitals and health care groups that provide services to Company employees and their dependents, and those that promote safety, preventive health care and cost containment (of special interest)
  • Organizations that improve living conditions for the homeless, jobless, aging and handicapped communities
  • Organizations that enhance the motivational levels of traditionally excluded groups in our society

• Local and Civic

  • Parks, playgrounds and recreation centers, and various state or municipal programs and projects

• Economics and Humanities

  • Agencies and organizations that support and promote the free enterprise system
  • Organizations that contribute to greater citizen awareness of history
  • Institutions that provide for the basics of our culture and society

• Arts and Culture

  • Organizations that support the production, promotion and financing for music, art, theater and dance