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The Andrus Family Fund’s grantmaking is guided by the belief that social change efforts will have a better chance for success when the emotional and psychological effects of the change process are recognized and addressed. William Bridges, a noted author and organizational consultant, uses the term “transition” to refer to the psychological process that a person experiences when he or she comes to terms with a new situation. Where change is external and situational (i.e., marriage, a new job), transition is the internal process of how one responds to the change.
AFF examines the power of using the Transition Framework within the Fund’s two program areas: (1) youth’s passage from foster care to independence; and (2) community reconciliation. AFF focuses its grantmaking on these program areas while also seeking to learn about the relationship between external change and internal transition.
The fund was established in 2000 to give fifth generation Andrus family members between the ages of twenty-five and forty-five an opportunity to learn about and participate in organized philanthropy. While AFF operates under the 501(c)(3) status of the Surdna Foundation, AFF defines and manages its own grantmaking program, process and has its own mission statement.