NewsElazig Earthquake03/11/2010
In an effort to provide assistance to the victims of the earthquake in Elazig, Turkish Philanthropy Funds has reached out to leading nonprofit organizations in Turkey to find the most feasible way to support the disaster relief efforts. Read more.
TPF Launches its Scholarship Program!02/16/2010TPF launched its Scholarship Program on February 11, 2010. Read more about the event. To donate to the Scholarship Program Pool Fund click here. Good News from Caykisla!01/25/2010The Caykisla Okulyap Project has been completed! Read more.  |
Our Mission and Approach
TPF's mission is to help donors realize their philanthropic goals to meet community needs in the US and in Turkey. While making goals meet needs, TPF also supports innovative humanitarian projects that have the potential to create social change. We know that there is no single or simple answer to how social innovation occurs. We understand that social change is the result of a tremendously complex mix of ingredients: conditions (social, cultural, economic and environmental) and individual actors colliding to spark world-changing ideas. Therefore, to understand these conditions and to stimulate idea creation, we build relationships with everyone we collaborate with from grantees to strategic partners.
Our experience and trajectory tells us we are on the right path. As social change agents, we are committed to refining our theory and practice, and to sharing these discoveries with the broader community. While doing that, our main focus is:
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