The
Bernard Osher Foundation
The Bernard Osher
Foundation, headquartered in San Francisco, was founded in 1977 by Bernard Osher, a respected businessman and community
leader. The Foundation seeks to improve quality of life through support for higher
education and the arts.
The Foundation provides
post-secondary scholarship funding to colleges and universities across the nation, with special attention to reentry students. It also benefits programs in integrative medicine in the United
States and Sweden, including centers at the University of California, San Francisco;
Harvard Medical School
and Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston; and the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm. In addition,
the Foundation supports a growing national lifelong learning network for seasoned adults.
The Osher Lifelong Learning Institutes, operating on the campuses of over 100 institutions of higher education from
Maine to Hawaii, have a National
Resource Center at the University of Southern Maine. Finally, an array of performing arts organizations, museums, and selected community programs in Northern
California and in Mr. Osher’s native state of Maine
receive both operating and capital support. A growing interest of the Foundation
is in bringing younger audiences to classical music and the performing arts.
The Foundation has a nine-member Board
of Directors which is chaired by the Honorable Barbro Osher, Consul General of Sweden in San
Francisco.
January 2007
www.osherfoundation.org
