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The Durfee Foundation is a family foundation that seeks to adhere to the values of our founders, Dorothy Durfee Avery and R. Stanton Avery, by rewarding individual initiative and leadership.
The majority of our grantmaking focuses on the Los Angeles region, where the foundation’s history lies, and where funding needs are great.
We build partnerships with individuals and institutions that share our ideals of creativity, risk-taking, fiscal care, integrity, entrepreneurial spirit and continuous learning
We seek to build community in unexpected ways.
We make grants where our dollars will have the greatest impact. We hope that Durfee funds provide leverage for other funding opportunities.
Durfee is a patient investor. We are willing to make grants where the outcome may be hard to measure or not measurable for many years.
Above all, Durfee’s focus is on extraordinary people who make things happen.
The Durfee Foundation is named in honor of the late Dorothy Durfee Avery who, with her husband, the late R. Stanton Avery, established it in 1960. Since that time, the Foundation has awarded more than $20 million in grants in the areas of arts and culture, education and community development, primarily in the Los Angeles region.
The Leadership Exploration and Development (LEAD) residency gives deputy leaders of nonprofits an opportunity to be in a short-term residence at another organization so that they can observe best practices around a particular topic. To be eligible, the applicant must have served on the interim management team during a Durfee-sponsored Sabbatical, and must still be employed by the organization.
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In an effort to replenish the stores of energy and inspiration for L.A.'s most gifted nonprofit leaders, the Durfee Sabbatical Program offers up to six individuals stipends and expenses of up to $35,000 to travel, reflect or otherwise renew themselves in whatever manner they propose.
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The Durfee Foundation’s Stanton Fellowship provides up to six fellows with $75,000 each over a two-year period to think deeply about the intractable problems in their sector, and to tease out solutions that will improve life for the people of L.A.
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The Durfee Foundation believes that good ideas filter up, and that change depends on making room for newcomers – those who bring fresh ideas and new approaches to problem-solving. The Foundation’s Springboard Fund supports dynamic leaders of new social-benefit ventures in Los Angeles who apply innovative strategies to complex community challenges. The best candidates for the Fund will be those who build communities in unexpected ways, by bringing together groups from different sectors with overlapping interests.
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