As a general rule, the Stanley Thomas Johnson Foundation makes contributions to projects run by organisations from Switzerland and the UK that aim to improve people’s living conditions and promote mutual cultural understanding through:

• Performing and visual arts
• Supporting persons affected by conflicts or violence
• Medical research
• Access to individual educational grants and school projects

By our approach, we aim to support high-quality projects, seek out innovative solutions, enter into partnerships, take a long-term view of the sectors in which we give assistance, support disadvantaged and poorly financed sectors and add to specialist knowledge by means of pilot projects.

What do we support?

• Organisations that support our objectives and are run on a non-profit basis (e.g. NGOs, cultural, educational and research institutions)
• Individuals as recipients of educational grants
• Projects that could be expanded to a greater number of beneficiarie

What we don’t support?

• Exclusively commercial projects
• Projects run by individuals (unless they are recipients of educational grants)
• Organisations promoting party political or religious positions
• Projects already running with financial shortfalls or additional projects
• Activities within the areas of responsibility of government offices
• Funding requested for the infrastructure or operating costs of programmes or projects already running