Firelight Foundation

In fulfilling its mission, Firelight seeks to support grantee-partners over a long-enough time to enable them to enhance their programs for children and families and strengthen their capacity as organizations. Firelight also aims to identify and support new emerging groups. However, faced with limited resources, Firelight continually weighs the addition of new grantee-partners against the need to sustain existing partnerships. Therefore, Firelight has taken a proactive approach to prepare groups to transition out of Firelight's funding portfolio in order to make room for other worthy organizations to receive our support. This approach has a defined length of partnership and investment in building the organizational capacity of partners. Firelight believes that a period of funding between five and nine years is typically long enough for organizations to reach a level where they can sustain their work and graduate from Firelight funding.