Program Highlights

May 5, 2025

Breaking Barriers: AJA Foundation’s Support for First-Generation Scholars and Women in Tech

The AJA Foundation is proud to have invested over $700,000 in educational initiatives throughout the United States and abroad. Its diverse education portfolio has a strong emphasis on college access…

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Grants Education

November 10, 2024

Cultivating Leaders in Las Vegas, Nevada Through Access to Higher Education

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Grants Education

May 10, 2024

March 2024 Education Grants

Currently three years into our partnership with Zambian-based Makolekole Foundation we have seen the organization consistently deliver on average 35 new boreholes per year to rural villages in the Luangwa…

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Grants Education

February 7, 2024

December 2023 Education Grants

Since its inception, the AJA Foundation has supported education programs in the U.S. and abroad. Most recently, a combined $156,000 was awarded to implementing partners providing college access programs in…

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Grants Water

May 15, 2023

March 2024 Water Grant

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Grants Education

May 11, 2023

The AJA Foundation Invests Additional $250,000 in College Access and Success Programs

The AJA Foundation approved gifts for three previously funded education grantees in April 2023. Dean’s Future Scholars (DFS) and the Pathfinder Program at the Hopkins School were both awarded $75,000…

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Program Highlights

August 8, 2022

Nevada First-Gen Network creates program for prospective college students

In collaboration with the Incline Education Fund, the Nevada First-Gen Network offers a free summer pilot program to engage and inspire rising 6th and 7th graders from Incline Middle School.

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Health Program Highlights

February 23, 2022

Saving Lives and Improving Healthcare in Rural Ethiopia

Engera’s mission began in 2005, when a group of doctors from Tuscany began providing medical assistance and training to the people of Ethiopia, a country with more than 100 million…

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Program Highlights

January 5, 2022

Prostate Cancer Treatment at the VA: One Veteran’s Story

The AJA Foundation has proudly supported the Prostate Cancer Foundation since 2007 and most recently provided funding for PCF’s Veteran’s Health Initiative. “One Veteran’s Story”, recently released by the Prostate…

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Education Program Highlights

December 7, 2021

University of Nevada Reno’s Dean’s Future Scholars Program Expands

Programs that help students obtain post-secondary degrees are one focus of our Foundation. We aim to identify and support best-in-breed programs with compelling ROI creating successful pathways for low-income and…

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Program Highlights

July 25, 2021

New funding gives boost to programs serving future first-generation college students

Learn about the state-wide expansion of AJA Foundation funded University of Nevada Reno’s Dean’s Future Scholars program.

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Education Program Highlights

July 6, 2021

Philanthropy Comes Full Circle

From Fulfillment Fund grant recipient to Leader and Principal Leyda Garcia spoke no English when she came to the U.S. from Guatemala in 7th grade. She had dreams and…

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Water

May 18, 2021

Open letter to philanthropists from the UNICEF International Council

The members of UNICEF's International Council - a collective of over 70 individual philanthropic partners committed to improving children's lives - write to the world's philanthropists with an urgent call…

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Water Program Highlights

May 3, 2021

Water for Guinea, Africa A Clean Water Quest with UNICEF USA

Learn more about the AJA Foundation funded Water for Guinea project in this recent LCA Houston article where Dr. Sippi Khurana, writes about her UNICEF field visit to Guinea, West…

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Program Highlights

January 28, 2021

Trident Swim Foundation

Trident Swim Foundation’s Swimmer-Scholar program utilizes the sport of swimming to create a more equitable world through mentorship and investment in disadvantaged and vulnerable youth.

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Program Highlights

January 11, 2021

Innocence Project Thanks AJA Foundation for Their Generous Gift

Thanks to a generous matching gift from the AJA Foundation, the Innocence Project exceeded its end-of-year fundraising goal. We’re so grateful to the AJA Foundation for their partnership over the…

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Education Program Highlights

October 16, 2020

Spotlight on Education

The primary mission of the AJA Foundation (AJAF) is to support organizations that help disadvantaged or at-risk people overcome their circumstances and change the course of their lives. Breaking out…

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Education Program Highlights

October 16, 2020

Three Angels

Twelve years ago, the AJA Foundation first learned of Three Angels Children’s Relief, a U.S. based nonprofit that runs an orphanage, a pre-6 school (Three Angels Christian Academy/TACA), and a…

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Medical Research Program Highlights

May 22, 2020

Prostate Cancer Foundation Announces New Treatments

The AJA Foundation has been funding the Prostate Cancer Foundation (PCF) since 2007. We are gratified that our investment in research by PCF investigators has contributed to two new FDA…

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Human Rights Program Highlights

May 18, 2020

The Innocence Project

Since 2009, The AJA Foundation has supported The Innocence Project and their fight to free those who have been wrongfully convicted. The Innocence Project’s newly released Netflix docuseries, The Innocence…

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