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The needs of children with disabilities and children in foster care often go unfulfilled. The Warner Fund aims to fill these gaps by identifying and funding a range of organizations that serve these children. We wish to support innovative organizations whose program areas include the arts, sports, education, health care, and family preservation.

We look for program ideas that are new and creative, going beyond proven solutions to test what’s possible. We provide people with vision and passion the means to develop programs that can be effective and sustainable.

Past funding has included primary care services, research, and advocacy.

The overall goal is to ensure that children with special needs and children in foster care live happier, healthier lives.

The Warner Fund provides scholarships for current and former foster youth. Obtaining a college education is a challenge for foster youth. We hope to assist those youth by making post-secondary education more economically viable. Our founder and first President, Peter Sherman, learned first-hand the opportunities opened to him as a result of education. As the first generation of his family to graduate from college, Peter knew that education empowers people to develop and achieve. In his name and memory, the Warner Fund will make grants to individuals to assist them to attend post-secondary education. The Warner Fund's Peter Sherman Scholarship offers grant awards between $3,000 and $10,000 to foster youth so they can attend a state, city, vocational or community college or a New York State-recognized certification program.

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