About the Foundation
The Peggy and Jack Baskin Foundation was founded in 2007 to create and support strategies for eliminating obstacles facing marginalized populations in order to reach gender and racial equity. We focus on improving the lives of women and girls and promoting educational equality for all community members.
Grant Program
The Peggy and Jack Baskin Foundation Scholarship awards grants to nonprofit organizations primarily in the Monterey Bay Peninsula and Santa Cruz. Program areas are constructed by looking at each of the barriers that women and girls face and funding a solution for them. The Foundation does not accept unsolicited proposals.
Grant Funding Priorities
Our Inspiration
“I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.”
“We’ve begun to raise daughters more like sons… but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.”
“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”
“Dominant groups often go unchallenged in society, and their power and privilege goes unexamined.”
“The way we imagine discrimination or disempowerment often is more complicated for people who are subjected to multiple forms of exclusion. The good news is that intersectionality provides us a way to see it.”
“If it would destroy a 12-year-old boy to be called a girl, what are we then teaching him about girls?”
“And there comes a time when we must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because it is right.”
News
“Baskin Foundation Provides Kickstart to Aspiring Ambassador,” Middlebury Institute of International Studies
Christina Johnson has her eyes set on becoming a U.S. ambassador, but first she has to finish her semester research paper on the resettlement process for Syrian refugees in Europe. The plight of Syrian [...]
“Baskin Foundation awards $1.2 million,” Santa Cruz Sentinel
The Peggy and Jack Baskin Foundation awarded $1.2 million in 2017 to organizations promoting gender equity throughout the Monterey Bay Peninsula and Santa Cruz. Funded organizations work in areas such as reproductive rights, legal [...]
“Gathering for Women finds permanent home in Monterey,” Monterey Herald
Monterey >> The nonprofit Gathering for Women has established its permanent home for a fully equipped day center and commercial kitchen. The program that has been helping homeless women on the Monterey Peninsula since 2014, providing [...]