Mission Statement
The David L. Klein Jr. Foundation is dedicated to improving the quality of community life. The Foundation makes grants to improve the education available to children in need, and to protect and restore natural and historic resources. The Foundation also seeks selected opportunities in social services, the arts, Jewish interests, and healthcare. The Foundation primarily supports programs in and around New York City and the San Francisco Bay Area.

The Education Portfolio
The goal of the education portfolio is to promote academic success for children in need. The David L. Klein Jr. Foundation supports the expansion and strengthening of successful educational programs that work directly with children during and after school.

The Foundation's strategic priority in education is to support the expansion of effective services that focus on pre-school and school-age children in need.

The Foundation recognizes that having a positive start during the first five years of life are critical to a child's academic success. Improving the quality of available childcare and helping to educate parents on child development issues are two high impact approaches to providing positive starts for young children. Toward these ends, the Foundation focuses its grantmaking in early-childhood education on organizational capacity-building and service expansion. The goal of these grants is to help young children and families gain an early start to success. Preference is given to local community organizations (in and around New York City, the San Francisco Bay Area, and Seattle) to provide and improve access to quality childcare, or that educate and inform parents on early childhood development issues.

The Foundation also supports programs for school-age children in need that provide supplemental and enrichment activities, such as the arts, that support academic success. Toward this goal, the Foundation makes grants for the direct provision of services to students and the recruiting or training of adult volunteers who work with students. Priority is placed on programs that motivate young people to succeed in school by providing enrichment activities and tutoring or mentoring.

Unsolicited proposals are not considered.

The Environment and Historic Preservation Portfolio
The goals of the Environment and Historic Preservation portfolio are to protect both the natural and manmade environment while at the same time educating the public about the threats to these resources.

The David L. Klein Jr. Foundation supports environmental programs that protect and manage natural resources through conservation, education, and advocacy work on the local, national, and international level. The Foundation provides this support to both site specific projects that
require land acquisition and/or conservation as well as projects that work on a more comprehensive level involving public health issues such as pesticide reform, industrial pollution, hazardous waste disposal and global warming.

In the area of Historic Preservation the goal is to protect and preserve architecturally and/or historically significant buildings or districts by supporting the efforts of established preservation organizations.

Unsolicited proposals are not considered.

Opportunity Portfolio
The David L. Klein Jr. Foundation reserves a portion of its grant budget each year for an Opportunity Portfolio. This Portfolio includes grants for social services, the arts, Jewish interests, and healthcare. The Portfolio allows the Foundation to remain open to interests and opportunities that are not included in the two primary program portfolio areas.

The Foundation's strategic priorities in this portfolio, as in the others, are to support the expansion of effective services and to protect and preserve resources.

Unsolicited proposals are not considered.

Board Discretionary Portfolios
The Board of the David L Klein Jr. Foundation reserves a budget for discretionary grantmaking. These grants help to position the foundation to move quickly to support specific interests of individual board members. Unsolicited proposals are not considered.

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