The Sachs Family Foundation Grant

The Sachs Family Foundation Grant is sponsored by Sachs Family Foundation. The Sachs Family Foundation supports self-sustaining charitable organizations focusing on economic and educational opportunities, particularly in low-income communities in the U. S.

and developing countries.

The Erich & Hannah Sachs Foundation (“Foundation”) was established in 1997 by Reynold M. Sachs to honor his parents, World War II immigrants from Germany. Having themselves faced intolerance and economic hardship, Erich & Hannah Sachs developed deep commitments to tolerance and improving the quality of people’s lives, by creating greater economic and educational opportunities for those less fortunate or less able.

The Foundation is managed by a small group of professionals, enabling a maximum of its annual funding to go to exemplary charitable programs. The Foundation strives to minimize salaries, overhead and administrative costs, both its own and those of the charitable organizations and institutions it funds.

The Foundation's primary commitment is to improving the overall quality of life for economically and/or educationally disadvantaged individuals and families who manifest a genuine desire to help themselves. The Foundation also supports efforts designed to strengthen communities.

Priority is given to those charitable organizations and institutions with an established record of increasing economic and educational opportunities in both low-income, inner-city neighborhoods, as well as in rural areas.

The Foundation provides support in a variety of areas, including: low- income housing, affordable day care, after-school programs, drug rehabilitation clinics, juvenile intervention (pre-incarceration) counseling, job-training, micro-loans to small, family owned businesses in Central America, rural land/open space preservation, and college scholarship support to exceptional public high school students, community development, higher education, food banks and medical assistance.