The Gere Foundation awards grants to humanitarian organizations supporting victims of war and natural disasters, providing HIV/AIDS care and research and addressing human rights violations occurring around the world. Our primary mission is to assist the cultural survival of the Tibetan people through health, technological and educational projects. The Gere Foundation contributes directly to The Tibet Fund, supporting His Holiness the Dalai Lama and the Tibetan community-in-exile. Dislocated from their homeland since 1959 and under the continuing brutal occupation of the Chinese, thousands of Tibetan refugees risk their lives every year escaping to freedom in India, Nepal, Mongolia and elsewhere.

The goal of the Gere Foundation is to alleviate suffering and help to restore autonomy to the people of Tibet.

Gere Foundation's list of grant recipients includes:

  • International Campaign for Tibet in Washington D.C.
  • Tibet Fund
  • Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition
  • Pundarika Foundation
  • The Tibetan Children's Villages
  • Rato, Sera, Drepung and Ganden Monasteries re-built in the south of India
  • Students for a Free Tibet

Assistance is given to many translations of work that encompass and appreciate Buddhism as a living philosophy. The Foundation supports and sponsors many publications, including:

  • Tricycle, The Buddhist Review
  • Wisdom Publications
  • Snow Lion Books
  • Rangjung Yeshe Publications
  • Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive

Gere Foundation contributes to other humanitarian causes:

  • Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch for their work in global human rights with particular emphasis on China and Tibet
  • Survival International for their work with indigenous endangered cultures
  • Oxfam America, the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, and Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) for their work in famine, war, and disaster relief
  • AMFAR, AIDS ReSearch Alliance, AIDS Project of Los Angeles, Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation, Children Affected by AIDS, Harvard AIDS Institute, Naz Foundation and many other groups and research projects for their continuing fight against HIV/AIDS and their outreach to assist its victims.

Gere Foundation is a non-profit tax-exempt organization incorporated under section 501(c)(3) in the United States. Established by Richard Gere, the Foundation provides philanthropic assistance to the causes and groups whose work represents the humanitarian goals that he has long supported.