Harbourton Foundation 2023 End of Year Report

2023

End Of Year Report

SUPPORTING THOSE WHO INSPIRE CHANGE.

A MESSAGE FROM OUR FOUNDERS

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Continuity gives us roots; change gives us branches, letting us stretch and grow and reach new heights.

Pauline R. Kezer

2024 will be a period of change at Harbourton Foundation as we transition leadership to the next generation. It’s been over thirty years since our founding, and we are filled with optimism as our children take the lead and give Harbourton the branches to grow through the next decade. Our family remains committed to taking action, supporting our communities, and working to understand how we can most effectively help those in need. We will continue to work in our focus areas of Youth Well-Being, Climate Change Solutions, and Emergency Relief and Recovery, with a renewed emphasis on our local communities.

Throughout 2023 we continued to develop and increase our funding in the areas of Youth Wellbeing and Emergency Relief and Recovery, and we are proud of the impact we were able to make. As a highlight, our grant to Mindful Life Project will help support children in Northern California by establishing a comprehensive mindfulness-based social-emotional learning program in schools across the region. In addition, we began a relationship with Global Giving, a stellar organization that connects donors to nonprofits working in communities impacted by environmental and humanitarian crises. Through this relationship Harbourton was directed to the Israel-Palestine Crisis Relief Fund, Sudan Emergency Fund, and the Hawaii Wildfire Relief Fund, where our grants had an immediate impact on these suffering communities in acute distress.

Harbourton feels a deep responsibility to our mission of fostering human dignity and environmental well-being. We remain diligent as we look for inspiring and innovative leaders to support and partnerships to foster, all while maintaining the valued relationships with our longterm partners. Harbourton has the utmost respect for our grantee’s determination, compassion, and energy to help make the world a better place and we are confident in our ability to reach new heights as we expand and deepen our reach in the coming year.

Warm regards,

Amy & Jay Regan

OUR MISSION

At Harbourton Foundation, we champion transformative solutions that foster human dignity and environmental well-being.

Our values center on hope—hope and optimism give life to our decision-making, actions, and long-term goals.

We have a deep consideration and care for all people and we take great care in listening to, understanding, collaborating with, and supporting our grantees.

We believe in justice and know that equitable opportunities are the first step in moving toward better communities and a better world.

We embrace challenges and have the courage to take on daunting tasks.

We have a responsibility to the planet and approach environmental and social change with the health of the world in mind.

BY THE NUMBERS

Harbourton Foundation made 61 grants totaling $3,415,730.44 across the following categories:

OUR GRANTEES

FOCUSED IMPACT

Climate Change Solutions

Food Recovery Network, Inc.

ReFED, Inc.

Woodwell Climate Research Center

Youth Well-being

Behavioral Health Catalyst

Dartmouth College

Guardian Scholars

Guitars Over Guns

Mindful Life Project

Mindful Philanthropy, Inc.

National Cathedral School

Nichols School

Open Future Institute

Our Minds Matter

Peace in Schools

Plus Me Project

Emergency Relief & Recovery

Global Giving:

Hawaii Wildfire Relief Fund

Israel-Palestine Crisis Relief Fund

Storm Eta Emergency Response in Guatemala

Sudan Emergency Fund

Turkey and Syria Earthquake Relief Fund

LONG TERM PARTNERS

Centurion

Operation Smile

Special Projects

Zephyr Impact

COMMUNITY GRANTEES

California/Central America/Hawaii

Club Dust

Hope International Fund

Keala Foundation

Pioneers

Soul Shepherding

The Very Last

Todd Morehead Ministries

Colorado

Bravo!

Eagle Valley Community Foundation

Roundup River Ranch

Your Hope Center of Eagle River Valley

Walking Mountains Science Center

Oregon

Age Well VT

American Endowment

City Parks Foundation

Clay Street Table

Ecotrust

Farmlink

Friendly House

Growing Gardens

Human Better EDU

Lines for Life

Oregon Agricultural Trust

Path Home

Rogue Farm Corps

SPOON

Street Roots

Sustainable Northwest

Zenger Farm

2023 GRANTEE HIGHLIGHTS

Focused Impact Grantee Highlights

ReFED

Mindful Life Project

Global Giving

GRANTEE HIGHLIGHT

CLIMATE CHANGE SOLUTIONS

ReFED

ReFED is the national nonprofit organization working exclusively on the challenge of food loss and waste, with the mission of catalyzing the food system toward evidence-based action to stop wasting food – for the climate, environment, people, and the economy. In 2023, the ReFED team completed their first annual update of food loss and waste data, increasing food system accountability for reaching the U.S. goal of reducing waste by 50% by 2030. With academic and NGO partners, ReFED launched the Zero Food Waste Coalition to inform policy efforts at the federal and state levels, and the U.S. Food Waste Pact to support businesses in food waste reduction. The team continues to grow the food loss and waste movement through collaborations and convenings, including hosting the largest Food Waste Solutions Summit in our history in St. Louis, and fully launching a suite of educational and consulting services to support businesses across the supply chain.

ReFED’s amazing track record of outsized impact attracted the attention of leaders at the Ballmer Group, who provided a $15 million grant over three years that will assure this work and impact will continue to scale.

GRANTEE HIGHLIGHT

YOUTH WELL-BEING

Mindful Life Project

Mindful Life Project (MLP) is an innovator and pioneer providing comprehensive, in-person, mindfulness-based, social emotional learning supports for young people in schools. Their work is focused in geographies and schools that have been historically marginalized or have experienced high-density trauma. Harbourton’s support for MLP through Zephyr Impact provided a multi-year, unrestricted grant to help increase capacity, grow programmatic reach across California, and prepare for the national expansion of this extraordinary program. In 2023, MLP served over 80,000 students, their educators, and their families in 25 cities across California. The work of Mindful Life Project not only ensures all people in school have opportunities to build strong mental and emotional health; it also demonstrates for all our youth-serving institutions what is possible when we prioritize the mental and emotional health for every child.

GRANTEE HIGHLIGHT

EMERGENCY RELIEF & RECOVERY

GlobalGiving

GlobalGiving helps trusted, community-led organizations from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe (and hundreds of places in between) access the tools, training, and support they need to make our world a better place.

With their work in disaster relief and recovery, GlobalGiving supports unmet, longterm recovery needs for communities in Maui, Turkey, Sudan, and beyond. They focus on sharing power, eliminating barriers to equitable disaster recovery, fostering strong relationships, and providing long-lasting support so communities are better prepared for future disasters.

In 2023, GlobalGiving responded to 134 new disasters and crisis events around the world, raising over $32M and partnering with 354 vetted organizations to provide life-saving and long-term assistance to survivors of war, wildfires, hurricanes, and other hardships.

Harbourton is pleased to support relief and recovery efforts for families impacted by the Israel-Palestine Crisis, the Sudan humanitarian emergency, and the Hawaii wildfires. We are thankful for all GlobalGiving does to make this direct and impactful aid possible.

2022 GRANTEE HIGHLIGHTS

Community Grantee Highlights

Keala Foundation

Eagle Valley Community Foundation

Path Home

GRANTEE HIGHLIGHT

CALIFORNIA/CENTRAL

Keala Foundation

Keala builds healthy communities that support the youth of Hawaii.

This year, the Keala Foundation provided more than 1,100 youth prevention fitness classes, 48 youth engagement events, and 3 early intervention programs across the island of Kauai. Serving more than 400 families through events, classes, and programs, Keala offers year- round supports for young people, all free of charge. Keala’s Success Early Intervention Program intervenes early-on when young people exhibit any type of addictive or negative behavior, providing preventive care and positive interventions for substance use, and averting future substance use disorders as adults.

In 2023, Keala served more families across Kauai and built-up key infrastructure and programmatic supports for youth on the island. Keala gathered over 1,500 people for the 10th annual Ultimate Hawaiian Trail Run fundraising event to create awareness of drug, alcohol, and suicide risk on Kauai. All community members are encouraged to join efforts and engage with the positive supports for young people through Keala’s innovative programs.

GRANTEE HIGHLIGHT

COLORADO

Eagle Valley Community Foundation

The Eagle Valley Community Foundation (EVCF) works passionately to provide responsive solutions that meet the most critical and emerging needs of those working or living in the Eagle River Valley.

The Community Market’s (TCM) is a signature project of EVCF with a goal to provide low-income communities with access to free, healthy food as well as to prevent food from going to waste. Their work strives to “provide good food at the heart of our community.” The three pillars that guide their work: Healthy People, Strong Communities, and Environmental Sustainability.

The Community Market helps reduce the overall community carbon footprint by reducing food waste and recovering excess fresh food from local grocers, farmers, schools, events, and restaurants. The TCM team also addresses food insecurity and ensures that donated and rescued produce have an entire lifecycle when used through the Foundation. TCM’s three-step process focuses on first feeding people, then feeding animals (as farmers pick up food scraps at The Community Markets) and finally, composting and converting food waste to build nutrient rich soil for community use.

GRANTEE HIGHLIGHT

OREGON

Path Home

Path Home empowers homeless families with children to get back into housing - and stay there. Every year, Path Home serves more than 500 families in the Portland area across all programs including Family Village Emergency Shelter, Rapid Re-housing, Homeless Prevention, and Basic Income.

The innovative, trauma-informed design of Path Home’s Family Village shelter provides families with children opportunities for playing, healing, and rebuilding while also providing a wide range of services and support to move families back into housing. Families say that the care, compassion, and dignity they experience working with Path Home are what propel them to get up every day and do the hard work to make changes in their lives for the better. Path Home’s model is working: 96% of families who stay in shelter at Family Village move into housing compared to 50% or less at the average Portland shelter.

OUR DIRECTORS

AMY & JAY REGAN

JASON REGAN

BETTY REGAN

BRAD LAWLISS

CARRIE LAWLISS

PATRICK REGAN

CONTACT

Harbourton Foundation pursues a grantee-centric approach to grantmaking. We identify potential grantees in a variety of ways, calling on the experience of our Board of Directors and consulting our partners to identify innovators and organizations that support our areas of Focused Impact.

To learn more, we invite you to visit our website www.harbourton.org or contact us at info@harbourton.org

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Get action. Do things; be sane; don’t fritter away your time; create; act; take a place wherever you are and be somebody; get action.”

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