GUIDELINES

Revised December 2011

The van Löben Sels/RembeRock Foundation provides grant funding to organizations serving Northern California. The Foundation’s grants are limited to the following legal and social justice areas:

  1. Legal services: including support of direct legal services and public-interest law. Examples: discrimination, housing, immigration, and civil rights.

  2. Juvenile justice: including programs specifically designed to meet the needs of youth involved in the juvenile justice system, the  direct legal services and/or policy development related to juvenile justice reform.

  3. Incarceration: including programs that serve women during incarceration; re-entry programs for formerly incarcerated women; and literacy and art programs for all prisoners.

  4. Community-based social justice programs in remote, underserved, under-resourced areas.

The Foundation will not consider applications that:

  • require medical, scientific, or other technical knowledge;

  • request funding for an individual or family;

  • request funding for scholarships or stipends;

  • request funding for capital campaigns;

  • seek support for programs outside Northern California;

  • request support for fundraisers, annual dinners, galas, or award banquets.

The Foundation accepts grant proposals on an ongoing basis. We ask that you use our application format that can be downloaded from our website. If you have any questions or need further clarification about the guidelines or the application, please call Gail Shuster at 415-512-0500 or gshuster@vlsrr.org.  Also available is Katherine Armstrong, Executive Director, at (415) 512-0577 or karmstrong@vlsrr.org.