Extending the choices available to everyone

The Raynault Foundation, a 501(c)(03) organization, is a small family foundation founded by Canadian entrepreneur Paul Raynault. Its aim is to promote innovative solutions to political problems, from local to global, based on human ingenuity and freedom. In general, it provides seed funding only.

The Raynault Foundation is a private operating foundation which manages its own projects and does not accept unsolicited requests for funding.

External donors who would like to help a particular project are encouraged to do so, especially the larger project of the World Assembly

The Mission statement of the Raynault Foundation is:

"Helping to extend the choices available to everyone"

Previous activities include (see activities pages for further details):

Sponsoring the formation of a Charter School in 1997, mainly serving the minority community in northern New Jersey.

Producing a document in 1996 on how government budgets could be organized to be self policing and more understandable to voters.

Sponsoring seminars on democratic elections in Eastern Europe in 1993 involving IFES, the Democracy After Communism Foundation, and the Hungarian Election Foundation.

Producing a series of papers in 1991 on ways the states of the former Soviet Union could restructure that would minimize ethnic conflict while encouraging economic development.