The Ray Solem Foundation was established to find creative ways to help poor immigrants advance within the United States and become productive citizens.
The Foundation supports nonprofit organizations that are most creatively helping victims of human trafficking or domestic violence or to resolve or mitigate the youth immigration crisis and to other organizations that are most innovatively helping immigrants to become productive residents in the United States.
Grants are to be used to continue ongoing work performed by the recipient organizations.
Grants are not made to/for:
- individuals;
- operational deficits;
- religious organizations for explicit religious activities, as distinguished from social or educational activities;
- partisan activities;
- fraternal organizations, labor, societies, or other;
- national fundraising efforts;
- 501(c)(4) organizations or lobbying activities;
- organizations whose overhead percentage is more than 20% of total expenses; or,
- brand-new projects that have not yet been piloted.
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