The Ittleson Foundation generally provides seed money for the start-up of innovative programs that will improve the social welfare of citizens of the United States. We look for pilot projects, test and demonstration projects, and applied research that would inform public policy, if successful. Such projects should be of national scope or significance beyond the local area of implementation. Projects should result in a product or outcome of some consequence in the real world. The Foundation also supports dissemination and on occasion, evaluation.
We will support a pilot program or the start-up of a new service when:
- the service or project appears to be truly innovative
- there are practical plans for evaluation
- there appears to be an audience for the results
- there is a credible plan for dissemination to those audiences and utilization of these results elsewhere