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The Great Bay Foundation

Great Bay makes grants to non-profit organizations lead by individuals who have an entrepreneurial attitude, drive and vision, and who work toward social change in the areas of economic development, education, and healthcare.

The foundation specifically supports nonprofit, social entrepreneurs working within the following two parameters:

  • those who are creating and/or operating revenue generating projects that focus on making the organization economically self-sufficient, or are moving in that direction, and
  • those whose projects help individuals living on the edges of society become more self-reliant and less dependant through the acquisition of skills, improvement of their faculties, training, jobs, etc.

In this respect, Great Bay funds the social entrepreneur who is willing to be accountable for the success or failure of the revenue generating project or program.


Great Bay supports principled, pragmatic approaches, and is solution oriented. (text from The Great Bay Foundation (external link) [website]


In November of 2002, with the generous funding provided by The Great Bay Foundation Families in Transition officially expanded into the area of social entrepreneurship with the opening of Family Outfitters Thrift Store. (external link) [website]