As the primary fundraising arm for FIT, the FIT Foundation supports and celebrates fearless innovation, inclusivity, and unabashed creativity. Since 1944, the FIT Foundation has advanced the mission of the college and its strategic goals by preparing students to fuel the future of fashion, business, design, technology, and the arts. Serving as a bridge between donors and FIT’s schools, departments, and programs, the Foundation strives to inspire and empower the vibrant community of FIT friends, students, alumni, faculty, and industry leaders. Through scholarship development, industry engagement, and programs and events with social impact, the Foundation is dedicated to the following core mandates: igniting thought leadership, fostering ingenuity and exploration, and helping FIT lead the next generation of unconventional minds into the new creative economy.As the primary fundraising arm for FIT, the FIT Foundation supports and celebrates fearless innovation, inclusivity, and unabashed creativity. Since 1944, the FIT Foundation has advanced the mission of the college and its strategic goals by preparing students to fuel the future of fashion, business, design, technology, and the arts. Serving as a bridge between donors and FIT’s schools, departments, and programs, the Foundation strives to inspire and empower the vibrant community of FIT friends, students, alumni, faculty, and industry leaders. Through scholarship development, industry engagement, and programs and events with social impact, the Foundation is dedicated to the following core mandates: igniting thought leadership, fostering ingenuity and exploration, and helping FIT lead the next generation of unconventional minds into the new creative economy. 

The Human Rights Campaign Foundation improves the lives of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) people by working to increase understanding and encourage the adoption of LGBTQ-inclusive policies and practices. We build support for LGBTQ people among families and friends, co-workers and employers, pastors and parishioners, doctors and teachers, neighbors, and the general public.

The Human Rights Campaign Foundation is guided by a vision of a world free of bias, discrimination, inequality and antipathy — one in which all LGBTQ people can participate fully in the systems and traditions that govern our daily lives. The Foundation’s impact can be felt in schools, on factory floors and corporate suites, and in places of worship ... from childhood through end-of-life ... for people of all races, ethnicities, sexual orientations, gender identities and religious beliefs ... in big cities, small towns and rural areas in the United States and across the globe.

In practical terms, the Foundation seeks to improve the lives of LGBTQ people by making the institutions that govern our lives welcoming and inclusive. We identify the problems and challenges LGBTQ people face, then follow a clear model for effecting change:

• Building understanding of LGBTQ people and shaping the public debate through public education, research and resources.
• Changing policies and practices through technical assistance and pioneering benchmarking tools.
• Empowering strategic partners, community leaders and allies to be stronger advocates for equality through capacity-building, training and innovative tools.
• Leveraging relationships with these partners, advocates and allies to advance LGBTQ policy objectives at the local, state, national and international levels.

Through powerhouse communication and membership operations the Human Rights Campaign and the HRC Foundation combined boast more than 3 million members and supporters and can reach 9 million people on line.