The Peggy and Jack Baskin Foundation aims to eliminate barriers for marginalized populations, striving for gender and racial equity. It supports gender equity and feminism to enhance the lives of women and girls in various identities, and education, promoting equal access for all. It primarily serves Monterey and Santa Cruz Counties and, to a lesser extent, the Greater San Francisco Bay Area, focusing on nonprofit organizations within these regions.
The grant program by the Peggy and Jack Baskin Foundation focuses on increasing access to education and improving the lives of women and girls. It emphasizes intersectionality, especially prioritizing the needs of women and girls of color. The foundation awards grants to nonprofits serving specific regions in California but may consider organizations outside these areas discretionarily. Current grant opportunities target areas such as feminist/gender/women's studies, reproductive rights, legal advocacy for immigrant women, racial justice, support for indigenous women and girls, engineering for girls, women in public policy, transitional housing for abuse survivors, legal services for abuse survivors, support for women re-entering the workforce, media literacy, economic and environmental gender justice, and farming justice.