80 Years of the Scherman Foundation
Building our Path Forward
2021 marked the Scherman Foundation's 80th anniversary. To commemorate and celebrate this milestone, we’ve gathered highlights from our journey exploring the Foundation's historic values and longstanding support for organizations at the forefront of social change. As we move onward, we seek to deepen those commitments and amplify them through a racial justice lens.
Grantmaking Since 1941
Our Priorities, Then and Now
Our Lasting Values
From the Foundation’s modest beginnings to our work today, changing social and political contexts have led to new strategies in thinking about how to achieve impact. But our long-standing values remain.
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Trust
grantees.2
Cultivate
relationships.3
Embrace
opportunity.4
Build beyond
funding.
read our full story
Discover the full and ongoing story of the Scherman Foundation in this 90-page commemorative volume—from our founding in 1941 to improve “social welfare” to our current focus on movement-building and systemic change.