Foothold Foundations works to foster public health equity. Health is a human right, and we believe that every child deserves an equal chance to live a healthy life.
The activities and organizations we support are driven by racial, gender, and socio-economic equity. We partner with organizations to provide opportunities for children to thrive by scaffolding infant nutrition, education, arts programming, wellness initiatives, and environmental improvement projects. We strive to lessen the racial and socio-economic disparity in access to health, education, and wellness. Our partner organizations were selected based on their outstanding ability to deliver impactful and concrete interventions. We are dedicated to our active pursuit in researching the work of institutions, and are proud to secure futures one donation at a time.
Mission
Programs
Birth Across Borders
To mitigate the linguistic barriers to maternity care experienced by refugees in Uganda, we created birth translation cards. Working with linguist, Matthew Rugomoka Wabunoha, cards containing translations from English and Luganda to Swahili and French were created and distributed to all hospitals in the Kampala district. This program is expanding, and will continue to work to identify and serve populations who could benefit from birth translation cards.
Healthy Harlem Babies
This program provides safe infant care and infant nutrition workshops for Black expectant birthing people in Central Harlem. Free group sessions led by doulas and lactation consultant are offered to expectant people. The aim of this program is to increase healthy birth outcomes to infants and mothers of color in Central Harlem.
Partners
Footholds Foundation’s curated list of partner organizations were selected based on their outstanding ability to deliver impactful and concrete interventions. We are dedicated to our active pursuit in researching the work of institutions, and are proud to secure futures one donation at a time.
Recent partnerships:
- Médecins Sans Frontières
- Arbor Day Foundation
- St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital
- Donate Life America
- Women Who Create
- Awesome Poughkeepsie
Causes we support
Infant nutrition
We work to reduce the racial disparity in infant mortality rates through a targeted effort to support infant nutrition. Nutritional interventions early in life can have the greatest impact over the health of a lifetime.
Youth programming
We promote young people's growth in achieving their full physical, intellectual, and social potential as individuals, and as contributors to their communities. We believe taking a youth-centered approach will make the largest impact.
Environment
Plantng seeds of change for the enrironment is foundational to delivering children the clean air and water they need to thrive. We partner with organizations dedicated to fighting the climate crisis.
Founder, Eric Frawley has worked in International Trade for the majority of his career, at Traxys North America, Traxys Europe, and then H&H Metals Corp in New York.
He started the Footholds Foundation with the goal of making incremental steps in people's lives that will help provide a foothold of opportunity to those that need it, helping them to live fuller, healthier, and more productive lives.
Eric is an avid social dancer who has worked with to organizations involved in immigration services and advocacy, political causes, and good governance organizations.
Meet our team
Director, Jacqueline Taylor, works in reproductive justice and is dedicated to reducing the racial disparity in infant mortality rates. University affiliations include Columbia University, Cambridge University, and Columbia’s Mailman School of Public Health.
Lisa Frawley serves on our board of directors. She works as a Pediatric Registered Nurse. She is committed to utilizing her skills to help others, specifically the lives of adolescents and children. Affiliations include NYU and the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.
Marcelo Taborga MD. serves on our board of directors. He is a medical internist with a background in stem cell biology. He is interested in helping to uplift the roles of immigrants and minorities science and medicine.
Make a difference
Footholds Foundation is a 501(c)3 tax-exempt organization and your donation is tax-deductible within the guidelines of U.S. law.
To claim a donation as a deduction on your U.S. taxes, use your email donation receipt as your official record.
Contact us
Footholds Foundation
53 Mount Airy Rd East, Cottage A
Croton-on-the-Hudson, NY 10520
Footholds.Foundation@gmail.com
