Since 1932, The Ittleson Foundation has been focused on serving the underprivileged and enhancing public policy and citizens' lives in the United States. The Foundation supports not-for-profit organizations with new initiatives and model projects in the areas of mental health, AIDS, and the environment.
The Ittleson Foundation's grant program alternates annually between its Mental Health, AIDS, and Environmental program areas, focusing on initiatives within the United States. Specifically, for Mental Health and AIDS, the Foundation supports innovative, pilot, model, and demonstration projects.
In Mental Health, priorities include projects fighting the stigma of mental illness, utilizing new knowledge and technology for better services, expanding access to these advancements for underserved populations, and advancing preventative efforts particularly targeted towards youth and adolescents.
In the AIDS program area, the Foundation seeks to fund cutting-edge prevention efforts and model initiatives that cater to underserved at-risk populations, support systemic change within community-based AIDS organizations, offer meaningful school-based sex education, improve accessibility to treatment information, and meet the psycho-social needs of those infected and affected by AIDS, with a special emphasis on adolescents. These efforts encourage collaboration across program areas to address complex challenges.