About the Tula Foundation
The Tula Foundation (www.tula.ca) is a private family foundation formed in 2002, with headquarters on Quadra Island in the province of British Columbia, on the Pacific west coast of Canada.
The Tula Foundation is privately endowed and managed. It neither seeks nor receives any funds from government or other organizations, or from the public. It provides grants to selected non-profit organizations upon the recommendations of its directors and advisors. The Tula Foundation concentrates its resources in a few specific areas of interest and establish partnerships with organizations that have a strong record of commitment and accomplishment. The Tula Foundation does not itself deliver programs or employ staff in the field.
The goals of the Tula Foundation are very broad: it tries to use its financial resources to promote the health, productivity and diversity of communities, including both people and the natural environment. It supports initiatives in British Columbia, but it is also active in Central America.
The core programs of the Tula Foundation are tightly focussed. Typically it identifies a field where it feel it can have an impact, studies it in detail, chooses the appropriate partners, then sustains its work over several years. The Tula Foundation currently has the following progams, which are described elsewhere on the website:
Health & Equity, which supports nursing, primary health care and social justice projects in the northern provinces of Guatemala.
Healthy Habitats, which supports habitat restoration and preservation projects in British Columbia.
Basic Research, which supports basic research in the life sciences.
Media Diversity, which supports independent publications in British Columbia.
Tula Community Fund, which supports local initiatives in British Columbia in Health & Social Development, Community Health and Arts & Culture.
The Tula Foundation and its patrons together now disburse roughly $7.5 million per year.
For background, read the letter from the President of the Tula Foundation.
The Tula Foundation does not accept unsolicited proposals
Health & Equity: At the Health Center in Ixcán, El Quiché, Guatemala
Healthy Habitats: Intertidal habitat, Bute Inlet, British Columbia