Frequently Asked Questions

Q: How do you pronounce “Stiefel?”

A: It rhymes with “Gleeful.”

Q: Do you accept grant requests?

A: No. We independently identify the charities that we support. Further, we focus our resources on national organizations and those local to our base of operations in Raleigh, NC. The Foundation does not offer support to local charities in other parts of the country and does not offer grants or scholarships to individuals.

Q: Do you help fund documentaries?

A: No. The foundation does not invest in films or donate to them.

Q: Do you have any open positions?

A: We do not have any employees. Not even the president of Stiefel FF is employed by the Foundation. We believe it is best to focus our resources on special projects and helping existing organizations that do work related to our mission.

"I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should 'make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,' thus building a wall of separation between church and State."

Thomas Jefferson

"Who does not see that the same authority which can establish Christianity in exclusion of all other religions may establish, with the same ease, any particular sect of Christians in exclusion of all other sects?"

James Madison, A Memorial and Remonstrance Against Religious Assessments, June 20, 1785

"I detest and fear dogma....dogma is the enemy of human freedom....the human spirit glows from that small inner light of doubt whether we are right, while those who believe with complete certainty that they possess the right are dark inside and darken the world outside with cruelty, pain, and injustice."

Saul Alinsky

"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known."

Carl Sagan