OUR KEY VALUES

Immigration is one of the engines of economic growth which makes America great.  

1 migrant dies in the deserts on our south border every day: that's a total of 360 a year. The restrictive numbers on work visas not only cost the USA billions of dollars every year in lost development, growth, and social security, but they are inadvertently breaking up families and take lives. The Foundation believes that illegal immigration is deadly, and enhancing legal immigration would not only strengthen America, but allow for more humanitarian policies that will save lives.

The J-P Conte Family Foundation sponsors the J-P Conte Initiative on Immigration at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, aids immigrant students through college, and supported Why America?, a leading podcast hosted by Dr Tim Kane. 

Paola Sapienza has just been named the inaugural J-P Conte Family Senior Fellow and will focus on the multifaceted nature of the immigration issue and its nuances, which have significant implications for political economy and policy formation. 

Educational equity is the foundation of American exceptionalism and global stability and growth. 

Many nations struggle with aristocracies, racial and gender inequalities, and hierarchies that restrict the ability of the best and the brightest to achieve. We believe in the strongest terms that we cannot allow the same systems influence the USA. By ensuring that our best and the brightest can rise to the top, we incentivize not only creativity, entrepreneurship and growth, but a system where the best and the brightest run America: not those born at the top of the ladder.

The J-P Conte Family Foundation sponsors the PADF in providing education and support for thousands of students across Latin America and the Carribbean, 10,000 Degrees in funding and providing mentorship for students from low income backgrounds, and providing separate funding and scholarships for talented students in need.

All people deserve the freedom to speak, believe, achieve and thrive.

The Conte family has a living memory of the horrors of Nazism, fascism and communism. Strong believers in the equality of all races, faiths, genders and sexualities, they are committed to protecting the rights of Americans and those around the globe from the intrusion on their personal freedoms and beliefs.

You can read more about the PADF's work on encouraging democracy, human rights and freedom here.

We have a duty to provide a future to our children and our planet.

The Conte family have had a long time admiration for the natural world, farming everything from bees to growing produce and wine. With climate change and carbon output now at crisis levels, they have committed themselves to supporting projects that encourage humanitarian support for those living in endangered ecosystems, and research into the devastation of hurricanes, wildfires and deforestation. 

You can read more about the Sunda Rainforest Project and the PADF's international involvement on sustainability, or find out more about the Pepperwood Preserve, the world's largest natural wildfire laboratory.

American exceptionalism is built on justice, equity, ambition and community.

The Conte Family are patriotic not only to America as a country, but to American values, principles and founding beliefs. The Foundation strives to support an America that continues to enhance the potential, freedoms, growth and equity of all American people. 

You can read more about the Conte Family's funding for projects that support these efforts here.