Two programmes, narrowly defined.

The Foundation does not believe that scumbag behaviour, in any of its varied forms, can be legislated out of existence. Nor do we believe that the problem is primarily one of awareness. Our operational framework rests instead on the proposition that meaningful reform is possible where three conditions obtain: an individual who wishes, however inconsistently, to reform; a practitioner skilled enough to hold space for that wish; and an institutional scaffolding that does not collapse when the work is difficult.

The Foundation's grantmaking is directed principally at the second of these conditions. Our Research Fellowship attends to the third. The first, which belongs properly to the individual, is not a matter the Foundation considers it within its competence to address.

Our approach is informed by the desistance literature, by the pragmatic tradition in social work, and by a long and sometimes awkward history of private foundations funding work in contested territory. We do not seek publicity for our grantees. We do not issue campaign materials. Our annual report is published in February and is available on request.