CONVENINGS: Join Us at an Upcoming Donor Meeting.

By Threshold Foundation January 2, 2024
Are you interested in learning more about Threshold's national and international bi-annual member meetings? Are you willing to participate in personal growth work in a community setting? Are you involved in progressive philanthropy, or do you have a desire to become more involved in leveraging wealth for social and environmental change? Are you a person with significant wealth who is interested in exploring your relationship with money in this world of great need? Do you have the time and financial capacity to attend meetings, participate on Funding Circles, and engage in philanthropic giving? If this sounds like you, contact Isaac Graves at isaac@thresholdfoundation.org to discuss Threshold Foundation, our membership-driven donor network, and upcoming donor meetings and retreats.
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Transforming Wealth into an Instrument of Change

We are a multi-generational membership organization devoted to aligning our resources with our values while fostering a fertile training ground for the full and authentic expression of passions and purpose. For more than four decades, Threshold has been a catalyst for social and environmental change by seeding hundreds of nascent organizations, and by supporting the inception of multiple donor networks and socially responsible businesses throughout the world. The organization is both a gathering place for deeply committed people to explore their highest philanthropic/individual purpose and a grant-making body that amplifies impact.

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Threshold's Grantmaking & Impact

For four decades, Threshold has served as a quiet catalyst for the social and environmental change movements, by seeding thousands of non-profits and supporting the inception of many sister donor organizations and socially responsible business networks throughout the world.

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Each year, Threshold grants

$2,000,000

to some of the world's most innovative non-profit organizations.

News From The Field

By Threshold Foundation January 2, 2024
Are you interested in learning more about Threshold's national and international bi-annual member meetings? Are you willing to participate in personal growth work in a community setting? Are you involved in progressive philanthropy, or do you have a desire to become more involved in leveraging wealth for social and environmental change? Are you a person with significant wealth who is interested in exploring your relationship with money in this world of great need? Do you have the time and financial capacity to attend meetings, participate on Funding Circles, and engage in philanthropic giving? If this sounds like you, contact Isaac Graves at isaac@thresholdfoundation.org to discuss Threshold Foundation, our membership-driven donor network, and upcoming donor meetings and retreats.
By Carolyn Pincus December 25, 2023
On a former cotton plantation in Louisiana, a Black farmers' cooperative is reclaiming the land and money their ancestors lost 
By Threshold Foundation December 22, 2023
Since 2016, we have supported numerous Palestinian and Israeli peace-building organizations working tirelessly towards a nonviolent transformation of the conflict into an enduring peace. We offer our love and care to all our members, grantees, and wider community during this time, and especially those who are directly affected or have family, friends, and fellow organizers on the ground. We stand with you. In our membership and wider community, we have members of many different ethnic, national and religious origins, and there are many of us with roots in Palestine and Israel, the Balkans, and many other parts of the world which have been ravaged by ongoing conflict and dehumanizing political narratives that arise and are cultivated by those who for a variety of reasons choose war over peace. Our community reflects the accumulation of these generational wounds, and yet we strongly commit once again to holding each other with sensitivity and kindness. We recognize that our shared humanity demands that we work towards higher visions of peace and compassion together, which the region and its inhabitants deserve. We also recognize that calls for violence, revenge and destruction will not bring back the loved ones, will not assuage the grief nor ensure any sense of peace or security for the people of Palestine and Israel. Threshold chooses to move beyond fear and divisive narratives to embrace and advance a co-created reality where all people in the Middle East have equal civil and human rights, dignity, freedom and security. We recognize that there is no forceful solution to this conflict and that there are strong peace communities made up of Palestinians, Israelis, Arabs, Jews and many others who speak other languages than brute force and ceaseless violence. This has been demonstrated for many years at Threshold, seen in our diverse portfolio of grantee organizations with myriad approaches to peace and yet are unified in the centrality of our shared humanity. Rooted in our mission and vision of the Middle East Peace Funding Circle, the wider Threshold mission, and aligned with our grantees, and the wider peace community, we ask for the following: An immediate ceasefire on all sides and an end to the bombardment and indiscriminate killing of civilians in Gaza, the West Bank and Israel and the protection of all children on all sides. Children belong to all of us and have no say in any violence being perpetuated. Their lives must take precedence. An adherence to international humanitarian and human rights laws by all actors, which includes the release of all those taken hostage from Israel and all Palestinians who have been unlawfully held in administrative detention or are illegally imprisoned. Hold all those accountable and bring to justice those who have perpetrated violence and suffering against Israelis and Palestinians in accordance with international law. Allow for the safe passage of humanitarian aid which is needed across the Gaza Strip and for vital resource flows to not be interrupted, including access to water, power, food and fuel. Above all else, Threshold has remained an organization rooted in peace, democratic values, inclusivity and non-violence over its past 42-year history. It is in this tradition alongside our support of the many statements and calls for peace made by our grantees and our peer groups that we have brought this forth.

This Network of Nearly 300 Individuals Exists

To cultivate and continually renew the heart and soul of our community.

To be a vibrant, growing and diverse multi-generational membership organization.

To be a powerful and visible model of conscious, effective philanthropy.

To be a dynamic forum for learning about social and environmental issues and the people working to address them.

To create fertile training grounds that support the full and authentic expression of our passions and purpose.

To cultivate and continually renew the heart and soul of our community.

To be a vibrant, growing and diverse multi-generational membership organization.

Interested in Joining Threshold?

Are you involved in progressive philanthropy, or do you have a desire to become more involved in leveraging wealth for social and environmental change?

Are you a person with significant wealth who is interested in exploring your relationship with money in this world of great need?

Are you willing to participate in personal growth work in a community setting?

Do you have the time and financial capacity to attend meetings, participate on Funding Circles, and engage in philanthropic giving?

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