What We Do

At the central and innermost framework of The Boedecker Foundation’s endowments are partnerships and enduring relationships with organizations that have committed extensive resources to improve environmental circumstances, provide access to healthcare programs, and create opportunities for the children, families and communities they serve.

The Boedecker Foundation provides funding associated with general operating expenditures, direct project costs, capital improvement campaigns and program initiatives within its grant-making areas of interest:

  • Education

  • Youth Development

  • Family & Community Development

  • Health & Wellness

Guiding Principles

 

Responsibility

We never should forget the difference one person, one day, one dollar can make.

 

Collaboration

We believe in the integration of information professionally and personally. By sharing those resources, we will produce positive outcomes throughout the world.

Awareness

As an organization, we understand the critical issues individuals and communities face.

 

Empowerment

We believe in providing boundless opportunities for individuals and communities to reach their greatest potential.

World View

We believe in a global society. The world is larger than what we see in our direct surroundings.

 

Compassion

Everyone needs a chance to believe in hope.

Resolve

As an organization we believe in the courage to embrace risk and change as a way of life and business.

 

Loyalty

As an organization, we believe in the faithfulness and committed obligations to our initiatives and partnerships.

Core Values

Sustainability – building a lasting foundation

Accountability – responsible for one’s actions

Integrity – be true to what is proper

Relationship-based – strength in numbers

Responsive to emerging community needs – responding especially readily and sympathetically to appeals, efforts, and causes

Social Entrepreneurialism – innovative solutions to society’s pressing social problems

The Boedecker Foundation does not accept unsolicited grant proposals or requests. The Foundation only provides grants to organizations defined as a public charity and as tax-exempt under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. The Foundation avoids supporting the following: religious organizations, unless they are engaged in a significant project that benefits a broad base of the community, organizations that discriminate on the basis of race, religion, creed, gender, or national origin, candidates for public office, and lobbying, legislative or political activities.