BeFoundation is a private, Connecticut-based family foundation committed to improving the lives of children, families, and their communities in Connecticut.
We partner with like-minded individuals and organizations to expand the reach and impact of initiatives that meet our mission.
To contact BeFoundation, please email us at info@befoundation.org. Please note that we do not accept unsolicited applications.
Greg Young is a devoted father, husband, and philanthropist. A lifelong resident of Connecticut and Maine, Greg dedicates his life to his family and making Connecticut and Maine a better place for all children. Greg’s philanthropic focus is on strengthening education, the arts, and community vitality through BeFoundation, the family foundation he founded in 2013. With an abiding passion for music and an awareness of the importance and far-reaching impact of music education, Greg felt the need to address gaps in access to high-quality music education. In 2014, Greg co-founded SpreadMusicNow. Today, he continues his work supporting the arts and community alongside his fellow Granite, Inc. board members, with whom he is enormously grateful for joining this journey in creating a new community arts space at the Granite Church.
Richard Wenning serves as Executive Director of BeFoundation, a family foundation devoted to strengthening the education of young people in his home state of Connecticut and the vitality of their communities. He co-founded SpreadMusicNow in 2014 with BeFoundation founder Greg Young. During an extensive career in public service, Richard has worked in leadership roles at the federal, state, and local levels of government and with national, state, and local nonprofits. In 2022, following BeFoundation’s purchase of the former Gilbert Memorial Church, he began the historic rehabilitation and adaptive reuse of the church into The Granite, a nonprofit performing and visual arts space in the heart of the historic Village of Georgetown, Connecticut.
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