LAUGHING ACRES FAMILY FOUNDATION

LAFF is a private family foundation with family and non-family Board Members, established to help people increase individual self reliance, and encourage philanthropy in the current family and future generations of our family. We highly value non-family Board Members for their different perspectives on charitable giving... We want our Board Members to engage our grantees to learn about what they do, as well as to help them improve what they do (when desired by grantees). We like to make site visits to meet key staff, and see operations and programs in person, to have a good understanding of how LAFF money is spent and to learn about real results... Over 25 years ago, we founded the Laughing Acres Family Foundation in order to instill in our family the importance of being good stewards and investing in our communities. We believe philanthropy and concern for others is an important part of what makes our nation great, and we hope to advance those causes through our works via this..