Programs, Projects and Grantees

The Foundation makes grants in the United States and internationally and has a needs and rights based approach:

The Foundation's principal goal is to support initiatives designed to promote tolerance, particularly among the young. Its work is focused on developing young children's understanding of and respect for the differences that exist among themselves, especially those related to culture, ethnicity, gender, race, and socioeconomic status. The Foundation's program builds on research findings demonstrating that gaining self-control and the ability to relate positively to others is developed in early childhood and that family, educators, and child caregivers play significant roles in shaping lifelong attitudes.

In its rights based approach the Foundation supports mainly human rights programs. The focus is in fellowships for the future advocates, facilitating dialogue across all constituencies, conferences and workshops as well as the support of research projects. Programmatic emphasis is on children's rights and capacity building for grassroots organizations.

A list of past and current ICTE Awardees is available here.

UNITED STATES GRANTEES Youth Development Programs Early Childhood Equity Alliance Educational Equity Concepts Educators for Social Responsibility Facing History and Ourselves Fair Fund Foundation for Child Development Global Kids National Center for the Preservation of Democracy Peace Games Tanenbaum Center for Interreligious Understanding W!SE Human Rights American Civil Liberties Union Center for the Study of Human Rights, Columbia University Columbia Law School Global Rights Human Rights Watch Harvard Law School Human Rights Program Upwardly Global Arts/Culture Art For Refugees in Transition Arts Engine Artevista Brooklyn Museum of Art Education Department Creative Time Current TV Dance Theatre Etcetera Elysium: Between Two Continents Governess Films Irondale Ensemble Project Museum of Modern Art Educational Program New Museum of Contemporary Art NY Children Studio in a School Urban Word Research National Center for Children in Poverty Mahzarin Banaji Scholar in Residence: Damian Stanley New York Anti-Bias Programs Community Resource Exchange Fund for the City of New York New York Foundation United Neighborhood Houses

INTERNATIONAL GRANTEES Youth Development Programs Abrinq Foundation Bernard van Leer, Kinderwelten UNICEF, Bangladesh UNICEF, Maldives UNICEF, Nepal Human Rights Central European University Coalition for the International Criminal Court, Congo Fondation Connaissance et Liberte (FOKAL), Haiti / Association pour la Promotion de la Sante Integrale de la Famille (APROSIFA), Haiti Global Rights Global Youth Connect Human Rights Watch, International WITNESS / Association des Jeunes pour le Developpement Integrale-Kalundu (AJEDI-Ka), Uvira, Democratic Republic of the Congo Arts/Culture AlvarAlice Foundation EDISCA Microfinance Grameen Foundation: Egypt Program Grameen Foundation, India Grameen Foundation, India/Pakistan Deutsche Bank, India Discrimination Humanity in Action International Development Exchange (IDEX), San Francisco / Girl Child Network (GCN), Zimbabwe

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