THE CASE FOUNDATION, INC.
SUNRISE, FLORIDA

The Case Foundation, created by digital pioneers Jean and Steve Case, is a diverse and dynamic institution by design. We create programs and invest in people and organizations that harness the best impulses of entrepreneurship, innovation, technology and collaboration to drive exponential impact. Our partners are changemakers with ideas that have transformative potential and can lead us to uncover new, more impactful ways of addressing chronic social challenges. OUR PHILOSOPHY The Case Foundation team has a diverse range of backgrounds and skill sets, but we share a common passion for changing the world. We work hard to accomplish our mission – but we insist on having fun while doing it! Jean and Steve Case created the Case Foundation in 1997 to reflect their family’s commitment to giving back. Over the years, they have used their investment capital, networks and experience in pursuit of a singular mission – to invest in people and ideas that can change the world. Check out some of the notable moments in the Foundation’s history: Jean and Steve Case create the Case Foundation reflecting their family’s commitment to giving back, based on the belief that “to whom much is given, much is expected.” The foundation makes its first grant to the Special Olympics. Two years later, the foundation made a five-year, $5 million commitment to help the organization meet its goal of doubling the number of people they serve by 2005. The Case Foundation helps to lead an effort to bring together high-tech companies, nonprofit organizations, and state and local governments to create PowerUP. Based in after-school settings in Boys and Girls Clubs, YMCAs, independent nonprofits, faith-based institutions, housing developments, and other community locations across the country, nearly 1,000 PowerUP computer technology centers provided underserved youth with access to a range of educational content and information. The program also linked up with local volunteer organizations to provide community service opportunities for youth and their families. Following the participation of Jean and Steve Case at the annual convention of City Year in Boston, the Case Foundation decided to help to bring a chapter of the national service organization to the District of Columbia. The foundation’s initial three-year grant helped launch City Year Washington, DC with 32 corps members. Today, the corps has grown to more than 150 members serving nearly 5000 students.Since 2000, the Case Foundation has provided more than $4 million in grants to City Year DC. In 2007, City Year DC honored Jean and Steve with a Lifetime of Idealism Award in recognition of their many contributions over the years. The foundation begins its relationship with Share Our Strength, a nonprofit organization dedicated to ending childhood hunger in America. Over a period of seven years, the foundation provided nearly $700,000 in funding to Share Our Strength. In 2006, the Case Foundation and the Sodexo Foundation provided funding for the Partnership to End Childhood Hunger in the Nation’s Capital, an initiative led by D.C. Hunger Solutions, the Food Research and Action Center, and Share Our Strength to support the creation of a 10-year strategic plan to end childhood hunger in D.C. With a $1 million contribution, the Case Foundation becomes a founding investor of Venture Philanthropy Partners (VPP), a philanthropic organization that invests in nonprofits serving the needs of children from low-income families in the National Capitol Region. The focus of every VPP investment is helping leaders build the strength of the organization behind their programs. In 2006, the Case Foundation renewed its commitment to VPP with a five-year, $1 million investment. ABC2 Founded (2001): Shortly after Steve Case’s brother, Dan, is diagnosed with brain cancer in 2001, Dan, Dan’s wife Stacey, Steve, and Jean create Accelerate Brain Cancer Cure (ABC2). ABC2 currently focuses on increasing investment in additional areas of research, boosting the number of clinical trials, improving the level of collaboration among brain disease organizations and researchers, and otherwise inspiring new hope for a brain cancer cure. ABC2’s many accomplishments to date include awarding 95 investigator awards at 46 institutions that have led to new treatment approaches, helping bring more than 10 new treatments into clinical trials, and launching a groundbreaking multi-center program that enables patients to have their tumors fully profiled and then use that information to enable them get the most state-of-the-art treatment for their exact tumors. Jean and Steve Case both serve on the board of ABC2. The foundation makes its first investment in Network for Good, an organization and web portal that helps nonprofits expand their reach, connect with more people, build stronger communities, and improve their effectiveness at fulfilling their public interest missions. Network for Good was established in 2001 by a coalition of companies, nonprofits, and associations working to transform an earlier e-philanthropy initiative known as Helping.org. In 2007, the Case Foundation provided $1 million to Network for Good to help support the creation of a next-generation donation processing platform. To date, Network for Good has processed more than $1 billion in donations to nonprofit organizations. The Case Foundation launched its first website in 2005, recognizing the potential of the platform for open, transparent communication about the organization’s programs, grantees, and lessons learned. Since the first launch, the Case Foundation team has innovated on its digital engagement strategy, leveraging its website, social media and other digital communication tools to connect, inform and activate the Foundation’s partners, the non-profit sector and the greater public. The foundation begins incubation of the Buxton Initiative, a nonprofit borne out of a series of interfaith dialogues implemented by Ambassador J. Douglas Holladay, a business leader, and Dr. Akbar Ahmed, a leading Muslim scholar, shortly after Sept. 11, 2001. The Buxton Initiative currently facilitates candid discussion among people of different faith traditions and life experiences to help build understanding, friendship, and trust.