The Blackstone Charitable Foundation is committed to supporting communities where we work and live. We apply our intellectual and financial capital to contribute to the success of a range of projects and organizations that are innovative in their approach to improving the economic and social conditions of communities in need.
The Blackstone Entrepreneurship Initiative
The Blackstone Charitable Foundation was created in 2007 with substantial commitments from the firm’s employees. Influenced by the urgent need for job growth in the United States in the wake of the global economic collapse and in keeping with the enterprising heritage of the firm and its founders, the Foundation changed its mission and committed $50 million to fostering entrepreneurship.
Blackstone’s investment and advisory expertise across asset classes, geographies and economic cycles has contributed to a heightened awareness of how entrepreneurial activity is often the crucial catalyst in the growth of successful businesses, industries and communities.
The Blackstone Entrepreneurship Initiative develops and supports innovative projects with the greatest potential to create high-growth businesses and industries that are most known to spark economic growth. The Foundation focuses its resources on producing enduring results in geographies hardest hit by the global economic crisis.
Blackstone Charitable Foundation Seeks out Innovative Ideas for Fostering Entrepreneurship
The Blackstone Charitable Foundation released a Request for Proposal (RFP) targeting organizations that focus on entrepreneurship and innovation. Eligible organizations will be considered to participate in The Blackstone Charitable Foundation’s $1 million organizational grant program.
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Training the Next Generation of Entrepreneurs in Northeast Ohio through Blackstone LaunchPad
The Blackstone Charitable Foundation, in partnership with The Burton D. Morgan Foundation, committed $3.2 million to support the creation of Blackstone LaunchPad on the campuses of Baldwin-Wallace College, Case Western Reserve University, Kent State University, and Lorain County Community College in Northeast Ohio. Read More...
Blackstone Accelerates Growth to Create Innovation Hubs in Maine
The Blackstone Charitable Foundation committed $3 million to support the creation ofBlackstone Accelerates Growth, an initiative designed to foster innovation, spur economic growth and help Maine transition from a historically resource based economy to an innovation economy. The initiative will create regional hubs of innovation and entrepreneurship that target training, coaching and mentoring services to the state’s most promising businesses primed for growth. Read more...
Blackstone Entrepreneurs Network to Create 17,000 Jobs in North Carolina
The Blackstone Charitable Foundation committed $3.6 million to support the formation of The Blackstone Entrepreneurs Network, a dense network of entrepreneurial support in North Carolina’s Research Triangle Park (RTP) Read more...
Training the Next Generation of Entrepreneurs in Detroit, Michigan through Blackstone LaunchPad
The Blackstone Charitable Foundation committed $2 million in 2010 to create Blackstone LaunchPad on the campuses of Wayne State University and Walsh College in Detroit, Michigan. Read more...
Support for Communities
In addition to its primary focus on entrepreneurship, the Foundation makes many small grants and the firm’s employees give generously of their time in an effort to have a big impact on civic and charitable organizations that support communities where Blackstone’s employees, clients and investors live and work. Read more…
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The Blackstone Charitable Foundation
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