Project Examples

Since its inception in 2015, the Hopewell Fund has launched a number of innovative domestic and global projects that advance solutions to issues such as poverty, lack of access to education, gender barriers to advancement, and more. Below are some examples of Hopewell’s work:

Better Taxes for a Better America

Better Taxes for a Better America

Transforming the U.S. tax system to better serve everyday people

Better Taxes for a Better America is a national initiative dedicated to transforming the U.S. tax system to better serve everyday people and build a fair, thriving economy. It aligns existing funders, attracts new partners, and strategically deploys resources to strengthen a diverse and resilient ecosystem of organizations advancing tax justice at both the state and federal levels. Its mission is to ensure a well-resourced movement capable of securing tax policies that are racially just, economically equitable, and provide ample funding for the nation’s future. Serving as a hub for funders, including individual donors, philanthropies, and labor, the initiative coordinates investments, shares insights, and drives collective action to pass better tax policy. Through research, education, and advocacy, Better Taxes for a Better America is mobilizing millions to reshape the economy for the benefit of all.

The Learning Together Project Fund

The Learning Together Project Fund

Connecting underserved students with eMentors

The Learning Together Project Fund supports two online eMentoring programs aimed at helping grade 3–8 students in underserved communities achieve their academic and personal potential. These programs, CricketTogether and TryEngineering Together, match classrooms of students with screened adult volunteers, or eMentors, who are employees of sponsoring corporations. CricketTogether focuses on developing literacy skills, and TryEngineering Together focuses on STEM concepts and interest in STEM careers. In both programs, students and eMentors develop an online learning friendship by exchanging email letters about online articles they read in common, as well as news about their lives. Through the 1:1 exchanges monitored through a safe and secure platform, students engage in meaningful experiences that deepen their content knowledge and develop key 21st-century skills, such as communication, collaboration, creative thinking, and problem solving. eMentors boost students’ confidence, motivate them to learn, and open their eyes to the world outside their neighborhood. In return, eMentors enjoy a flexible, rewarding opportunity to make a difference in a child’s life. Through the generosity of funders/sponsors and their volunteers, the Learning Together Project Fund is able to offer its programs to schools free of charge. The Hopewell Fund provides full fiscal sponsorship.