CarlisleFoundation.org
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CARLISLE Foundation Homepage
Description
The CARLISLE Foundation was incorporated in 1991. It is a private, operating foundation which attempts to promote creative problem solving and interventions through effective grant making. The CARLISLE Foundation evolved from CARLISLE Services, Inc., a grant making company which began in 1988, and acted as an intermediary between private donors and the human service community. Representing one donor family, CARLISLE Services solicited and reviewed innovative proposals and presented them to the donors for their philanthropic consideration. Those same donors elected to establish the CARLISLE Foundation as a more efficient and effective vehicle for continuing their philanthropic endeavors and as a statement of their continuing commitment. Since inception, the combined grants of CARLISLE Services, Inc. and The CARLISLE Foundation have exceeded $22 million.
The CARLISLE Foundation operates three distinct categories of funding: ANNUAL GRANTS, DONOR ADVISED GRANTS and MISCELLANEOUS CONTRIBUTIONS . Annual Grants make up the majority of CARLISLE funding. It is not unusual for 20-30 Annual Grants to be made each year. They form the core of a traditional grantmaking program and are very focused in terms of expectations and duration. Funding for these grants is available to programs operating only within the six New England States. Applications for these grants begins with the submission of a concept paper described later on this site. Donor Advised grants are initiated by the Foundation's Trustees and may not be applied for independently. They differ from Annual Grants in that there are very few Donor Advised in operation at any given time, they are usually much larger in scope and duration. There projects are always solicited by the Foundation. Each year there are a series of smaller, donor initiated Miscellaneous Contributions.
As a private operating foundation, CARLISLE has, on occasion during its history, undertaken operational responsibility for programs while on other occasions it has directly supported its own staff and/or consultants in providing direct program services. We have, for example, been actively involved in the development and implementation of various aspects relating to the Boston University Residential Charter School which operated in western Massachusetts for several years prior to it’s demise in 1999. We have been involved in a number of projects related to program development and financial development for Brewster Academy in Wolfboro, NH.
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