What We Do
For more than 30 years, the Furthur Foundation has been giving money to progressive groups working on environmental and social change issues in the Bay Area and around the world. We welcome your contributions in continuing Bobby’s legacy in supporting these critical issues. Donate here.
Who we are
Board of Directors:
Chloe Weir
Monet Weir
Natascha Weir
Andre Carothers
Chris Desser
Trevor Soule
Gabriel Soule
Board Members Emeritus:
Carolyn Garcia
Gregory Miller
Ray Palmarini
Barbara Whitestone
Gone But Never Forgotten
Bobby Weir
Ram Das
Our working capital is a series of donations from Bobby Weir, given more than two decades ago, and donations from good and like-minded people that stream in throughout the year.
We focus on smart-thinking groups that are small and close to their target—groups that know their business, share our politics, and spend the money carefully, without a lot of bells and whistles, overhead, and wasted effort.
The foundation is managed and directed by Andre Carothers in Berkeley. The financial and accounting side of the foundation is overseen by a team of generous and talented people.
Remembering Bobby
So many words will be spilled in the next few weeks and months that it feels crowded to add any more. But tribute must be paid, I think, to the thirty-five fulfilling years spent working with Bobby on the Furthur Foundation. Sure, he was thrilling, charismatic and dazzlingly talented on stage–but he was also modest, generous and purposeful on land. His quiet presence in philanthropy is one that should not go unheralded.
In 1990, right out of the gate, he said he wanted Furthur to be easy. What that meant, I quickly discovered, was not easy like it didn’t matter. But easy in the way he moved in the world. People who know rhythm guitar know that Weir’s particular genius was acting as the almost perfect complement to the moment–elegant and discriminating in his chording, spare and fully integrated when the music called for it, and powerful and forthright at just the right moments. He had that unique genius of attending just as carefully to the notes he didn’t play.
Read more from our director
Andre Carothers…
Help us help others
Over the decades we’ve been proud to support worthy organizations working on environmental and social justice issues, child enrichment and development, music education, and support for artists, among many worthy causes. Organizations like Headcount, Camp Winnarainbow, the Grateful Dead Archive, the Snow Leopard Conservancy…the list goes on and on.
Want to pitch in? Donations are gratefully accepted!
Checks can be mailed to:
Furthur Foundation
1710 Rose Street
Berkeley, CA 94703
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We’re Committed to the Cause
Okay. Not the result we, and millions of Americans, were looking for. The far-right tilt of American government does not bode well for the protection of the environment and the advancement of social justice and human rights that we have fought for.
What now?
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