Grantee Spotlights
Learn how the Levi Strauss Foundation’s strategic grant making creates positive change for people around the world.
LS&CO. and Levi Strauss Foundation Promote Education and Economic Development for Women Garment Workers in Bangladesh
Levi Strauss & CO. and the Levi Strauss Foundation fund a two-year program to bring worker rights education and micro-enterprise programs to women garment workers in Bangladesh
LSF Grantee Helps Create Sustainable Economic Opportunity for Working Poor in San Francisco
Getting ahead in an increasingly tough economy depends on much more than having an income. While many families and individuals are able to maintain steady employment, the grip of poverty is often one paycheck, one illness or one health condition away.
LSF Grantee Uses Cartoons to Bring HIV/AIDS Prevention to Life in Argentina and Uruguay
Under a grant from the Levi Strauss Foundation (LSF), Fundación Huesped was able to create this first-ever animated cartoon about HIV/AIDS directed at children between the ages of 8-10. The Preventoons video is accompanied by a second video for teachers, providing instructions on how to use the cartoon as an educational tool.
LSF Grantee Promotes Asset Building and Education Opportunities for Girls in Remote, Rural Bangladesh
In rural Bangladesh, young girls interested in educating themselves face a number of cultural, logistical and financial obstacles to realizing their goal. One Levi Strauss Foundation (LSF) grantee has figured a way around those obstacles by bringing school to the girls – on a boat.
LSF Grantee Helps Improve the Lives of China’s Migrant Women Workers
To address the need to educate and empower migrant women workers, the Levi Strauss Foundation embarked on a unique philanthropic endeavor that would ultimately provide hundreds of thousands of migrant women workers with life-skills education and training, health services and counseling, and legal aid.
LSF Grantee Helps Migrant Women Start Businesses in Germany
With financial assistance from the Levi Strauss Foundation, a German nonprofit provides opportunity for a group hit hard by unemployment.