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Building a Stronger Community

The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation is committed to building a stronger community for residents of the Washington, DC metropolitan area through support of programs in the arts and humanities, community services, education, health and the environment.

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Friday, November 1st
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The Washington Ballet

Program Area
Arts & Humanities

Our giving in the Arts and Humanities includes theater, dance, music, visual arts, film and other multidisciplinary art forms, as well as organizations that promote the humanities. We focus on nonprofits that have deep, meaningful impact and can demonstrate the depth and breadth of their local initiatives.

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Children's Law Center

Program Area
Community Services

The Foundation’s Community Development grant-making includes affordable housing production and preservation, homeless services, transitional and permanent supportive housing, foreclosure and eviction prevention, community economic development and wealth building, and civic engagement.

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Fishing School

Program Area
Education

The Foundation’s Education docket invests in learning from cradle to career. It includes schools that provide early childhood education, kindergarten through twelfth-grade instruction and undergraduate and graduate institutions. The Foundation also looks for models that provide comprehensive services to help students improve academic success and future employment outcomes.

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Food Research and Action Center

Program Area
Environment

The Foundation strives to preserve the region’s resources and raise awareness so that individuals can enjoy healthy and fulfilling lives in a clean environment. Through our grant-making, we support groups that are concerned with our natural environment’s past, present and future. To help restore and protect our region’s natural resources, we have focused on local parks, the Anacostia and Potomac rivers, and the Chesapeake Bay watershed.

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Christ House

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Health

Our giving in Health and Wellness supports integrated healthcare and prevention efforts and broad collaborations, to ensure that all DC metropolitan residents live longer, healthier lives. We strive to bridge the worlds of health and healthcare through a broad range of investments.

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Upcoming Events

The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation is hosting our next “Question and Answer” forum | Oct 16, 2019

Representatives from nonprofits that are considering submitting an application at our upcoming ..

Upcoming Deadline | Nov 01, 2019

Proposals for our upcoming deadline are due on Friday, November 1st by 5:00 pm. Head to the Apply f..

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The Morris & Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation partners with Catchafire

(May 28, 2019) The Morris & Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation is thrilled to be partnering with Catchafire to bring capacity building support to more than ..


 

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60%

More than 60% of the Foundation's funding supports the general operations of our grantees.

$485M

More than $485 million has been awarded by the foundation since 1970.

03 Morris Cafritz Standing on Steamshovel

1922

Morris Cafritz Standing on Steamshovel "Marion" at Petworth

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