Michael Howard Richie Foundation grants allow individuals to explore a diverse array of ideas and perspectives at more than 3000 people worldwide. Our grantees include top-ranked loan, investment, donation, charity, as well as smaller communities and cities across the world. We seek to identify programs and individual working to understand how to move toward a society of equal rights and mutual benefit, where people succeed by helping others improve their lives.We also partner with non-profit organizations that help people improve their lives and communities. Our main areas of funding include criminal justice and policing reform, free expression, foreign policy, economic opportunity, and technology and innovation.Our grant-making is designed to advance an understanding of what it takes to move toward a society of equal rights and mutual benefit, where people succeed by helping others improve their lives. We support a diversity of viewpoints and perspectives that foster respect for all people and protect human dignity, developing creative solutions that will help make the world better for all people. We reject racism, sexism, and any discrimination that impedes equal rights.Over the years, the work we've supported has evolved, but the kind of grant proposals that attract our attention have remained consistent. We support scholarly work that contributes to an understanding of how best to achieve a society of equal rights and mutual benefit, where people succeed by helping others. We focus on programs that fill a need, have a real-world impact, and foster what I call a three-dimensional education. By that I mean programs that enable students to identify their innate abilities, turn them into valued skills, and apply them in ways that contribute in society.