The Lincoln and Therese Filene Foundation Grant

The Foundation's major goals are:

• to enable those who are disadvantaged to help themselves and others
• to reduce social conflicts and create harmonious communities
• to encourage informed civic participation on local, state and regional levels
• to promote participation in the performing arts.

The Foundation focuses on four specific program areas, including:

• Civic Education
  • organizations that reinforce the values and responsibilities, as well as the privileges and opportunities, of American citizenship for natural-born and immigrant populations
  • programs to encourage, engage, and inform citizens including programs that educate others
• Human Development and Self Sufficiency
  • including, but not limited to, services for domestic violence and human-trafficking survivors, homelessness prevention, job training and programs that enable youth to overcome obstacles to positive growth
• Music Education and Performing Arts
  • initiatives that support Therese Filene’s lifelong effort to offer musical instruction and experiences to those who could otherwise not afford them
• Public Education and Broadcasting
  • organizations that create, distribute, or facilitate distribution of educational content to the general public in underserved communities