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Philanthropic Organizations
High Meadows Foundation
Founders: Carl Ferenbach and Judy Ferenbach
Areas of interest:
- Environment
- Children
- History
- Education
- Human societies
- Science
Notable projects/programs:
- High Meadows Fellows
- The Vermont Land Trust
- Permanent Fund for the Well-being of Vermont's Children
More about High Meadows:
The High Meadows Group is a dichotomous nonprofit group in Boston composed of the High Meadows Foundation and High Meadows Fund.
High Meadows Foundation supports many organizations with varying objectives. The High Meadows Foundation has a record of helping academic and philanthropic institutions like the North Bennet Street School and the Baker Library at the Harvard Business School. The High Meadows Foundation has shown a more deep-seated relationship with Princeton University, the beneficiary of the High Meadows Fellows program. Administered by the university's Pace Center, this program designates recent graduates to become fellows at the Vermont Community Foundation Environmental Defense and The Food Project.
The High Meadows Foundation also provides a grant to Princeton's Grand Challenges program, an opportunity for scholars from Princeton Environmental Institute, Engineering School and Woodrow Wilson School to discuss nonrenewable energy, sanitation, poverty and disease on a macrocosmic level. The High Meadows Foundation has also provided support for Princeton's Center for African American Studies.
As part of its commitment to the environment, the High Meadows Foundation has borne in part the costs of Princeton's ambitious environmental Sustainability Plan. Through a four-year grant from the High Meadows Foundation, Princeton University has created new environmental studies in its curriculum, among others.
Outside Princeton University, the High Meadows Fund is a prominent donor of the STEP (Science, Technology, Environment and Policy) Program, which researches and studies policies for climate change.
Founded in 2004 by Carl Ferenbach, The High Meadows Fund's environmental goals include supplementing the much larger Vermont Community Foundation. The High Meadows Fund is also proactive in identifying and addressing aspects of Vermont wanting in environmental sustainability.
In support of cleaner energy, the High Meadows Fund has sponsored the Vermont Sustainable Jobs Fund. It seeks to promote bio-fuels as a source of energy for the state. A grant has also been doled out by the High Meadows Fund to benefit the Vermont Forum on Sprawl, in order to preempt the adversities of urban sprawls. Likewise, the Vermont Council on Rural Development has benefitted from the Fund, alongside The Intervale Center, which instills sustainable practices in farming.
Apart from ecology, the High Meadows Fund has yearly contributed to the Permanent Fund for the Well-being of Vermont's Children.
The High Meadows Foundation is founded by Carl Ferenbach and Judy Ferenbach. Carl Ferenbach is the managing director of Berkshire Partners, LLC. In addition to Berkshire, Carl Ferenbach is also Chairman of the Environmental Defense Fund. Carl Ferenbach is also a trustee of Princeton University's Board of Directors.