David Bohnett Foundation

David Bohnett Foundation

Type	Private foundation
Tax ID No.	95-4735846 [1]
Founded	1999 [1]
Founder(s)	David Bohnett
Headquarters	Beverly Hills, California, United States[1]
Key people	David Bohnett, founder and president Michael Fleming, executive director[1]
Area served	United States
Focus(es)	Voter education, animal language research, handgun control, and LGBT rights
Mission	We pursue our mission by providing funding, state-of-the-art technology and technical support to innovative organizations and institutions that, in addition to meeting our funding guidelines, share our vision.[1]
Method(s)	Grantmaking
Disbursements	2011: US$4,951,121 [2]
Website	bohnettfoundation.org

Foundation founder and technology entrepreneur, David Bohnett

The David Bohnett Foundation is a global private foundation gives grants to organizations that focus on its core giving areas - among them voter education, animal language research, handgun control, and LGBT rights in the United States.

Grantmaking

The David Bohnett Foundation provides grants to outside nonprofit organizations and projects supporting several primary funding areas: The Fund for Los Angeles, supporting a broad spectrum of arts, educational and civic programs; LGBT-related causes; graduate school leadership programs at the University of Michigan, New York University and Harvard University;^[3] voting rights and registration initiatives; supporting research and public policies to reduce the impact of firearm violence; and animal research and rights.

Animal language research

The David Bohnett Foundation supports animal language research, funding of service animals and eliminating the trade of endangered species.^[4]

Animal language research grant recipients

A selection of recent animal language research grant recipients includes:^[4][5]

CyberCenters

Example of a large CyberCenter setup

The David Bohnett Foundation has sponsored CyberCenters since 1998, with the first one established at the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center. Now there are CyberCenters across the United States, in locations like Atlanta, Tulsa, Orlando, San Francisco and New York City. The David Bohnett CyberCenters are another major undertaking—numbering 61 locations nationwide,^[6] they offer business, educational, research, and recreational opportunities to underserved LGBT communities via computer equipment and access to the Internet.^[7]

CyberCenter grant recipients

A selection of recent CyberCenter grant recipients includes:^[5]

Fund for Los Angeles

The David Bohnett Foundation Fund for Los Angeles provides support to local organizations that are working to better the civic and cultural lives of people living in Los Angeles. These grants are made under the initiative of either David Bohnett or the David Bohnett Foundation.^[8]

Fund for Los Angeles grant recipients

A selection of recent fund for Los Angeles grant recipients includes:^[5][8]

Gun violence prevention

The David Bohnett Foundation works with public policy makers, advocates and activists to reduce gun violence and promote gun violence prevention policies. Funding is provided to groups and institutions that educate and advocate on the effects of guns and solutions to reduce gun violence.^[9] As of March 2013, the foundation had awarded nearly US$3 million to organizations in the United States working to research and prevent gun violence.^[10]

Gun violence prevention grant recipients

A selection of recent gun violence prevention grant recipients includes:^[5][9]

LGBT community

Protesters gathered inside the Minnesota capitol to protest against a vote to put an anti-gay marriage amendment on the 2012 election ballot

The David Bohnett Foundation supports organizations and projects using social activism to advance the rights of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community. The foundation also assists and promoted philanthropic organizations that foster positive portrayals of lesbians and gay men in the media. As of July 2013, the foundation had contributed more than US$12 million to non-profit organizations across the United States that work to support the LGBT communities and advocate for equal civil rights and liberties for all people in the United States.^[11]

LGBT community grant recipients

A selection of recent LGBT community grant recipients includes:^[5][11]

Voter education

The David Bohnett Foundation supports safe and secure elections, both during the voting process and after. They provide funding to projects that work to ensure fair elections, protect voting rights, and raise the level of political discourse among all Americans, regardless of age, gender identity, partisanship or other diversities. The foundation supports projects working at local, state and national levels on a wide range of voter registration initiatives from preventing polling place irregularities to research that helps assess obstacles that keep certain populations from having their votes counted.^[12]

David Bohnett Foundation Congressional Interns

US Congressional interns at the US Capitol Visitor Center auditorium on July 10, 2013

The foundation supports African American and Hispanic and Latino American student internships in the United States Congress. In partnership with the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation and the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute, summer internships offer students a private look into the United States' democratic process. In a series of educational opportunities within the United States Congress, students are encouraged to explore diversity through civic engagement, and build coalitions based on shared values, purpose and goals.^[12]

David Bohnett Foundation Leadership Programs

The Foundation also supports advances in public policy through David Bohnett Leadership Fellows programs at universities.^[12]

David Bohnett Leadership Fellowship programs have been provided to:^[12]

• Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy
• John F. Kennedy School of Government
• Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service
• UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs

Voter education grant recipients

A selection of recent voter education recipients includes:^[5]

See also

• Arcus Foundation
• Gill Foundation

References

External links

• Official website