Joseph & Florence Roblee Foundation

The foundation is dedicated to promoting racial, ethnic, and gender equity, with a preference for early, upstream, catalytic, and movement-building approaches.

Within its equity emphasis, the foundation prioritizes funding in the following areas:

Women's Issues and Economic Empowerment

• Proposals focused on under-resourced and marginalized communities
• Strategies that simplify and streamline women's access to support services
• Protecting a woman's right to choose
• Training, education, and coaching to accelerate economic empowerment
• Two-generational approaches that support parents and their young children

Opportunities for Youth of Color and LGBTQ+ Youth

• Youth mentoring programs (ages 9-21 preferred)
• Youth engagement initiatives that organize and empower youth of color at the grassroots level
• Alternatives to juvenile detention and strategies to reduce incarceration
• Support for racial justice and equitable policing
• Anti-bias/anti-racism training for middle and high school teachers in racially diverse schools

Early Childhood Education (0-8)

• Collaborative initiatives to expand access to high-quality early childhood education
• Advocacy efforts to increase support for child care subsidies, Medicaid, early childhood education, early childhood home visiting, and public schools
• Anti-bias/anti-racism training for early childhood teachers, caregivers, and parents
• Two-generational approaches that support parents and their young children
• Evidence-based early childhood home visitation programs serving vulnerable families
• Evidence-based instructional practices for improving children's literacy skills