https://www.theefa.org/blog daily 0.75 2020-08-19 https://www.theefa.org/blog/arts-revive monthly 0.5 2020-08-19 https://www.theefa.org/blog/tomatoes-are-now-in-season-jjdwf monthly 0.5 2019-07-09 https://www.theefa.org/blog/new-additions-to-the-farm-bma8d monthly 0.5 2019-07-09 https://www.theefa.org/blog/spring-favorites-kale-tll9z monthly 0.5 2019-07-09 https://www.theefa.org/ourpurpose daily 0.75 2024-08-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5edf5daa359996153ccf68bb/1617051057258-BWDLM9UVZWI112BBPRIN/our_purpose_collage_update.png Our Purpose - Vision The Educational Foundation of America is a family foundation that envisions a society in which every person has a meaningful voice in an inclusive democracy, with unrestricted access to full reproductive freedom, and lives in creative, thriving communities on a healthy, regenerative planet. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5edf5daa359996153ccf68bb/1629133017796-9JP0BA5S2FQ22CC6QU5I/our_purpose_collage_update2.png Our Purpose - Mission The Educational Foundation of America advances progressive change through support for creative initiatives working toward sustainability, justice, and equity. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5edf5daa359996153ccf68bb/1629133226289-TQWDF56HMZ521L7BKJAI/our_purpose_collage_update3.png Our Purpose - Values The Educational Foundation of America believes in strategic grantmaking and impact investing that: collaborate with communities and causes seeking structural change support innovative ideas and talented leaders take risks to achieve results invest in people, places, and organizations underserved by philanthropy https://www.theefa.org/job-openings daily 0.75 2024-08-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5edf5daa359996153ccf68bb/1629132371079-1FMUO5EBNJNAZZAPWQR2/join_team_main_image_update2.png Job Openings - Join the EFA Team Joining the team at EFA is an opportunity to serve others and positively impact progressive change in America. Any job openings available will be listed below. https://www.theefa.org/our-approach daily 0.75 2025-05-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5edf5daa359996153ccf68bb/1606843538648-TX5UJB2C0TVD428UD4VT/ourapproach_main_image.png Our Approach 1. Effective Grantmaking Philanthropy is our primary tool for driving positive change. EFA funds innovative nonprofit groups working nationally, regionally, and locally. We also serve as a partner in advocacy, policy work, and community engagement for our grantees. 2. Impact Investing Our second tool allows us to scale our social and environmental impact. We are a proud leader in the impact investing movement. In the early 90s, EFA was one of the first private foundations to begin screening its investments using Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) criteria to guarantee those investments aligned with our core values. Building on our commitment to ensure that our portfolio supports, rather than dilutes, our grantmaking goals, our investments became 100% fossil-fuel free in 2015. That year EFA was also one of the original signatories to the Divest-Invest Movement, actively avoiding fossil fuel investments and instead seeking out forward-thinking companies leading the clean energy revolution. Our assets have grown as a result of this strategic shift. (To learn more, read this report by the Croatan Institute, which features EFA as a case study.) Furthermore, we are engaged shareholders. By owning shares in public companies, EFA is able to raise environmental, social, and corporate governance issues with management. 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We support organizations working for the arts, the environment, democracy, food security, and reproductive health and justice. The greatest need for these initiatives is concentrated in the Appalachian region of the United States, as well as the South and the Pacific Northwest. Our efforts are currently focused in these geographical areas. We’re proud to function as a resource for advocacy, policy work, and funding for our grantees as they endeavor to overcome the challenges they face in their local communities. We’re prouder still to showcase their tremendous work throughout this site. https://www.theefa.org/reproductive-health-and-justice daily 0.75 2025-02-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5edf5daa359996153ccf68bb/1598640687082-YSBA5JHCA9LDDPX5JJ5B/homepage_slideshow_reprorights.png Reproductive Health & Justice EFA’s Reproductive Health & Justice program supports a range of strategies to improve access to abortion and contraception at the national and state level. 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Most of our grantee partners are state-based and include those advocating for fair and nonpartisan redistricting, building durable community power, and advancing innovative, long-term solutions to structural challenges. We also support some national organizations developing creative new ideas to strengthen American democracy. https://www.theefa.org/food-security daily 0.75 2022-08-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5edf5daa359996153ccf68bb/1617055059032-BMMSOM39Y9GPMUNNVHV8/food_main.png Food Security Many people in the United States struggle to provide themselves and their families with enough food to eat on a daily basis. Food insecurity is particularly acute in areas like the Appalachian region of Kentucky where more than 20% of the population regularly experiences hunger. With this in mind, EFA supports activities that boost healthy food access in the Central Appalachian regions of Eastern Kentucky, Southeast Ohio, and West Virginia. We fund programs that increase access to nutritious food, build community resiliency, and strengthen those programs through policy work and advocacy. EFA’s Food Security program continues until the end of 2022. We are focused on supporting our current grantee partners in this work and are not currently accepting new funding ideas. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5edf5daa359996153ccf68bb/1598646712776-O5NB32XZ5R1KS99QYRBJ/food_appalred.png Food Security AppalReD Legal Aid https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5edf5daa359996153ccf68bb/1598646742909-T6F236EJ1GWCZUJHJZDK/food_AIF.png Food Security Appalachian Impact Fund https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5edf5daa359996153ccf68bb/1598646815894-GLDBBS8T2S4CNVH6ZDUG/rep_powertodecide.png Food Security Coalfield Development Corporation - Refresh Appalachia https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5edf5daa359996153ccf68bb/1598646774482-VZ2S8CAOCOH29P2A9HVN/food_commagri.png Food Security Community Agricultural & Nutritional Enterprises https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5edf5daa359996153ccf68bb/1598646798130-CQN1SJ1PX0TX5NA7KKGK/rep_kentuckyHealthJustice.png Food Security Community Farm Alliance https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5edf5daa359996153ccf68bb/1598646835681-NOBGCMTWIPAZ32T5BQ6F/env_SELC.png Food Security Feeding Kentucky https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5edf5daa359996153ccf68bb/1598646853985-UZVYMAQ2MQBDZQ618KQZ/rep_womenhaveoptions.png Food Security Grow Appalachia https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5edf5daa359996153ccf68bb/1598646868425-0NSNNA6R34HVYESSKJ83/env_SEEA.png Food Security Grow Ohio Valley https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5edf5daa359996153ccf68bb/1598646890294-W4SR8KLOIB7OOY52024U/rep_lwv.png Food Security Kentucky Center for Economic Policy https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5edf5daa359996153ccf68bb/1606844659502-J2SMGD9R75168QSWP56R/food_RuralAction.png Food Security Rural Action https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5edf5daa359996153ccf68bb/1607980310888-BGGKK95AFLI3G8V1FSAF/IMG_9291.jpg Food Security West Virginia Food and Farm Coalition https://www.theefa.org/privacy daily 0.75 2020-11-17 https://www.theefa.org/our-purpose daily 0.75 2020-12-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5edf5daa359996153ccf68bb/1606841669260-YFHQ3TS155T06QS4D9IZ/our_purpose_main_image.png Our Purpose (copy) - our purpose EFA advocates for progressive change in our society. We support groups of passionate people in America working across five areas of change: to leverage culture and art to build community; to remove carbon from the atmosphere; to improve our democratic systems; to provide access to nutritious food; and to ensure equitable access to reproductive health care. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5edf5daa359996153ccf68bb/1597265717704-BM2DCCG7WWN7Z2799WPZ/Ettinger3.png Our Purpose (copy) Richard Prentice Ettinger https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5edf5daa359996153ccf68bb/1597265809354-X80SNVBAMZOYQ6BAOG17/Elsie_Ettinger.png Our Purpose (copy) Jeannette (Janet) Gratz, Mabel Mamber, Elsie Phyllis Ettinger https://www.theefa.org/our-history daily 0.75 2021-08-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5edf5daa359996153ccf68bb/1597265717704-BM2DCCG7WWN7Z2799WPZ/Ettinger3.png Our History Richard Prentice Ettinger https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5edf5daa359996153ccf68bb/1597265809354-X80SNVBAMZOYQ6BAOG17/Elsie_Ettinger.png Our History Jeannette (Janet) Gratz, Mabel Mamber, Elsie Phyllis Ettinger https://www.theefa.org/our-approach-test daily 0.75 2022-12-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5edf5daa359996153ccf68bb/1606843538648-TX5UJB2C0TVD428UD4VT/ourapproach_main_image.png Our Approach Test 1. Effective Grantmaking Philanthropy is our primary tool for driving positive change. EFA funds innovative nonprofit groups working nationally, regionally, and locally. We also serve as a partner in advocacy, policy work, and community engagement for our grantees. 2. Impact Investing Our second tool allows us to scale our social and environmental impact. We are a proud leader in the impact investing movement. In the early 90s, EFA was one of the first private foundations to begin screening its investments using Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) criteria to guarantee those investments aligned with our core values. Building on our commitment to ensure that our portfolio supports, rather than dilutes, our grantmaking goals, our investments became 100% fossil-fuel free in 2015. That year EFA was also one of the original signatories to the Divest-Invest Movement, actively avoiding fossil fuel investments and instead seeking out forward-thinking companies leading the clean energy revolution. Our assets have grown as a result of this strategic shift. (To learn more, read this report by the Croatan Institute, which features EFA as a case study.) Furthermore, we are engaged shareholders. By owning shares in public companies, EFA is able to raise environmental, social, and corporate governance issues with management. We do this through productive dialogue or by filing shareholder resolutions. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5edf5daa359996153ccf68bb/1603828251074-9443JX9YEX4D1KS17CW2/Organizations_ceres.png Our Approach Test Ceres Investor Network https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5edf5daa359996153ccf68bb/1603828228826-KY47OBPLF5PLHX7BIAYA/Organizations_ICCR.png Our Approach Test Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5edf5daa359996153ccf68bb/1603828694370-2N27I0Y074XUU08PLGMQ/Organizations_rhia.png Our Approach Test Reproductive Healthcare Investors Alliance https://www.theefa.org/active-endowment daily 0.75 2024-12-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5edf5daa359996153ccf68bb/295e9ca2-f3b8-4042-93f8-99aea152a6f3/Commonfund-Study-Once.gif https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5edf5daa359996153ccf68bb/1617049477795-GH2K12K85UBDCN750FO0/homepage_handsin.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5edf5daa359996153ccf68bb/31f17ee4-5818-4f42-a042-20042fa95669/charts_stacked.png