LAWSON VALENTINE FOUNDATION

The Lawson Valentine Foundation was created in 1989 through the generosity of Alice Doyle, the great-granddaughter of Lawson Valentine, when she inherited eleven paintings by renowned artist, Winslow Homer... Our strategy is to provide long-term support to grassroots community based organizers and advocates, low wage workers, and other change agents working among people of color, low-income youth, immigrants, refugees and other underserved populations. We accomplish this through our grant making activities, by advising and fostering connections among our grantees, and through influencing our peers in the philanthropic community... We support organizing, policy, and leadership development in food systems, food sovereignty, and workers' rights. Funding is also focused on climate and environmental justice in disempowered communities.

Also known as: Lawson Valentine