Our Approach

The Zeist Foundation Board of Directors is actively involved in the grantmaking process, including site visits to proposal reviews and grant award notifications. The Zeist Foundation staff keeps the Board regularly apprised on grantee progress, nonprofit trends and new funding opportunities.

Innovators

The Foundation supports nonprofits that aim to be creative, imaginative and are willing to take healthy risks to find solutions to the issues faced by the children and youth of Georgia.

Collaborators

The Foundation believes that no one organization can successfully address the issues facing children and youth in Georgia and that collaboration among nonprofits, as well as private-public partnerships, are necessary to meet the education, health, human service and cultural needs of children, youth and families.

Conveners

The Foundation recognizes that many organizations are engaged in productive, meaningful service on behalf of children and youth, yet too many are not connected and aligned for the greater good; thus, the Foundation plays a convening role with nonprofits, public sector agencies (e.g. schools) and even businesses that are stakeholders.

Funders

The Foundation supports nonprofits across the state of Georgia through its traditional grant making process semi-annually in the spring and fall, and it supports nonprofits year-round through its place based philanthropy in the Edgewood neighborhood of Atlanta and across the Atlanta Public Schools Maynard Jackson High School cluster.

The foundation staff makes a concerted effort to respond to all inquiries and appreciates grantseekers’ understanding that the Foundation’s commitment to its mission and its focus on funding opportunities that align with the Foundation’s priorities.

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