OUR STORY

year founded

2015

total partners

16

amount donated

$660,000

About Blue Chip

We bet on life.

 

The Blue Chip Foundation was established in 2015 by Jennifer Gross. The Foundation’s mission is to alleviate global poverty by facilitating the realization of the United Nations’ 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SGDs) through financial support of organizations aligned with one or more SDG. The Blue Chip Foundation seeks organizations to partner with globally, nationally and locally.

 


 

The Blue Chip Foundation was established in 2015 by Jennifer Gross. The Foundation’s mission is to alleviate global poverty by facilitating the realization of the United Nations’ 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SGDs) through financial support of organizations aligned with one or more SDG. The Blue Chip Foundation seeks organizations to partner with globally, nationally and locally.

At the global level, The Blue Chip Foundation provides funds to support organizations whose work is in line with one or more U.N. SDG.

In the United States, The Blue Chip Foundation provides funding for university-based research and education programs in service of the U.N. SDGs.

In the Los Angeles area, The Blue Chip Foundation supports social enterprises that address poverty-related issues at the community level.

Jennifer Gross serves on the Leadership Council of the Sustainable Development Solutions Network and is a founding member of SDG USA. Ms. Gross is a member of The Gross Family Foundation. She also serves on the board for the Association of Sustainable Development Solutions Network, Duke Global Health Institute, Millennium Promise and LA Kitchen. She is partnering with PixHug, a social media platform designed to bring money to charitable campaigns through member participation. Prior to joining PixHug, Ms. Gross owned a physical therapy clinic in Beverly Hills. She has 10 years of philanthropic and business experience and earned her undergraduate degree from Duke University.

Get to know our initiatives

Blue Chip Foundation is currently partnering with VII Photo to document the success of the Millennium Villages Project as it draws to a close. Get to know more about the initiatives that Blue Chip is focused on.

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SOME OF OUR SUCCESS STORIES

Notes from the Field- Ethics in Action for Sustainable and Integral Development: Peace

Casina Pio IV, Vatican City- February 2-3, 2017: The second meeting of Ethics in Action (EIA) was dedicated to peace. Today, peace is being suffocated by “piecemeal” violence, threatened by wars in different countries and continents, the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, the rise of terrorism by non-state and...

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Notes from the Field- Ethics in Action for Sustainable and Integral Development

Casina Pio IV, Vatican City- October 31-November 1, 2016: Ethics in Action (EIA) convened for the first time, establishing its goal of advancing “sustainable and integral human development through an effective collaboration among world religions for the purpose of articulating universal values and ethical imperatives and indicating how such values...

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Inspired by Ghana Trip, Jenn Gross Invests in DGHI Student Research

DGHI board member Jennifer Gross took her first trip to Africa in 2011 with Jeffrey Sachs, director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University, after her family made a philanthropic donation to the institute. As they were touring a hospital in Ghana, the young daughter of an HIV patient ran...

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Sustainable Cities: Empowering People, Enabling Prosperity and Protecting the Planet

Humanity has entered a new era. Our technological prowess has brought humanity to a crossroads. We are the inheritors of two centuries of remarkable waves of technological change: steam power, railroads, the telegraph, electrification, automotive transport, aviation, industrial chemistry, modern medicine, computing, and now the digital revolution, biotechnologies and nanotechnologies....

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Notes from the Field: Joining SDSN Leadership Council

Los Angeles, California – August 2016: The UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network’s Leadership Council brings together global experts on sustainable development from academia, business, civil society and the public sector. Its members include H.S.H. Prince Albert II of Monaco; American business mogul Ted Turner; Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations,...

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