Mission
The Florence Foundation is a public charitable trust for exclusively educational, scientific, literary, religious or charitable purposes. The Foundation was established by Fred F. Florence and Helen Lefkowitz Florence in 1956 to be used for the benefit of humanity. From the little acorn comes the mighty oak: From the original small investment of $5,000, The Florence Foundation has bestowed an excess of $3 million during the past 50 years.
The Florence Foundation Board of Governors distribute funds for any of the following uses and purposes.
- For assisting public charitable, religious or educational institutions, whether supported wholly or in part by private endowment, donation or public taxation
- For promoting and aiding scientific research for the advancement of human knowledge, for increasing the productivity of the soil and animal life, for the elimination of disease and the alleviation of human suffering
- For providing scholarships or otherwise assisting worthy young men and women, of limited means, in obtaining an education
- For the care of the sick, the aged, the needy and the helpless
- For providing facilities for public recreation
- For research into the cause of ignorance, poverty, crime and vice, preventing the operation of such causes and remedying or eliminating the conditions resulting therefrom
For more detailed information, please see the opportunity webpage.