Family Advisory Board

The Foundation created the Family Advisory Board in 2000 to allow the new generation of Compton leadership greater participation in its philanthropic activities. The Family Advisory Board awarded $400,000 in 2007 and $400,000 in 2008 in the following areas:

• Arts: emphasizing children, youth, healing, and spiritual evolution and the environment. Interests include - visual and performing arts, poetry and creative writing, and arts for environmental, social, or spiritual exploration.
  
• Children and Youth: emphasizing programs for holistic education.  Interests include - social and emotional learning, conflict resolution, environmental education, and educational reform.
• Sustainable Living: emphasizing organic agriculture, and economics.   Interests include - supporting sustainable food systems and preserving family farms and local communities. 
• Spiritual Awareness: emphasizing integration of mind, body, earth, and spirit.  Interests include - evolution of consciousness, training in contemplative practices, shift from 'human-centered' to a holistic life-view, relational thinking, and the inter-connectedness and sacredness of all life.
  

The Family Advisory Board particularly encourages projects that recognize and promote connections between these categories.

Proposals for the Family Advisory Board are accepted by invitation only.

Campaign Finance

The Compton Foundation makes a small number of grants to support campaign finance reform, which the Foundation believes can contribute to progress in all areas of its grantmaking, through amplifying the public voice and diminishing the power of special interests. Because this is a very small program area, the Compton Foundation funds the campaign finance field by invitation only, and does not accept unsolicited proposals.

Download the Family Advisory Board guidelines in PDF format.

Download the Campaign Finance guidelines in PDF format.