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Our Mission

The Looking Out Foundation (LOF) amplifies the impact of music by empowering those without a voice. From neighborhood to nation, we help fund causes and organizations that often go unnoticed. Founded in 2008 by multiple Grammy winning artists Brandi Carlile, Tim and Phil Hanseroth, we band together with fans, non-profits and female LGBTQ+ owned businesses to translate voices of song to voices of action. We are nimble to the ever-changing needs of the human race, and adapt to support the diverse demographic we serve. Every campaign we launch is backed by our passionate donors and fans, and $2 from every concert ticket sold goes directly toward our efforts.

Since its inception, LOF has donated almost $6 million to support social justice and humanitarian causes across the US and globally, providing vital funding for disaster relief aid, protection for children and families in war torn countries, food insecurity programs, racial justice, incarceration prevention, and self-defense workshops for marginalized communities. With an average donation of $25 per campaign, our community of supporters exemplifies the global impact of grassroots level activism and fundraising.

Together, we are making Music Mean More.

Community-sourced

We are fueled by the spirit of our fans and donors and reciprocate that energy back into communities around the world.

Tenacity

We believe it is our job as artists to generate awareness about issues and injustices in our world, and we are on a constant quest to grow our support base and create change.

Musically inspired

We are bound by our shared passion for music and it serves as a vehicle for the impact we aim to deliver.

Causes We Care About

ARTS

Americana Music Association Foundation — Children’s Music Foundation — Color Me Country — Daniel’s Music Foundation — EqualizeHer — Fanny's School Of Music — Girls Rock Camp ATL — Greater Good Music — Ink People Center for the Arts — Instruments of Healing Inc. — Kettle River Music Festival — Live Connections — Maple Valley Youth Symphony Orchestra — Melodic Caring Project — Monterey Jazz Festival — Moore College Of Art & Design — MoPOP Seattle — Musicares — Newport Festivals Foundation — Notes for Notes — Once and Future Sounds — Pledge Music — Pongo Publishing — Rainey Day Fund — Red Curtain Foundation For The Arts — Seattle Theatre Group — Seattle Youth Symphony — She Rock She Rock — Shelter Music Boston — Soundwaves Art Foundation — Teen Tix — The Bridge School — The Possibility Project — Totem Star — Zumix

COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT

360 Communities — American Red Cross — American Red Cross South Carolina — Atlanta Angels — Atlanta Children’s Shelter — Attain Housing — August Wilson Cultural Center — Austin Disaster Relief Network — Baker Ripley — Ballard Food Bank — Birthday Dreams — Blue Mountain Action Council — Boys and Girls Haven — Building Bridges — Byte Back — Camp Victory — Casa Marianella — Charity:water — Chinle Planting Hope — Christian Family Solutions — Clothes To Kids From Denver — Cocoon House — Community enCompass — Community Food Bank of New Jersey — Community for Youth — Congregations For The Homeless — Coos County Friends of Public — Crisis Connections — Direct Relief — Downtown Streets Team — East Nashville Hope Exchange — Easter Seals Disability Services — Exceptional Equestrians — Fairbanks Community Foodbank — Family Access Network — Family Promise — Family Promise of Monroe County — Family Reconciliation Center — Feed the People Dallas — Feeding Florida — Fight The Fear Campaign — Flagstaff Shelter Services — Focus Points Family Resource Center — Food Bank of NYC — Food Bank of the Rockies — Georgia Food Bank Association — Goodie Two Shoes — Green Doors Homes Through Community Partnership — Haiti Mama — Happy Face Kids Charity — Homes for the Brave — Homes of Hope International — Hope Abides — Hope For Kids — Hopelink — Hope House — Hot Bread Kitchen — Housing Catalyst — It Takes A Village Collaborative — Kent Food Bank & Emergency — Kent Senior Center — Kids in Concert — Los Angeles Regional Food Bank — Maple Valley Food Bank — Meals on Wheels America — Mission K9 Rescue — Mother Hubbards Cupboard — Native Horsemanship Youth Program — Neighborhood Ministries — Northern Illinois Food Bank — Northwest Youth Services — Open Your Heart — Parkview Services — Pennsylvania Elks Home Service Program — Pennsylvania Elks Major Project — Pongo Publishing — Project Angel Food — Regional Foodbank of Oklahoma — Reignite Hope — Reunion Sportive d’Haiti — Salvation Army — Seattle Foundation (The Plate Fund) — Seattle Neighborhood Group — Seattle Police Foundation — Seniors Resource Center — Shelter Music Boston — Solid Ground — Street Youth Ministries — The Access Foundation — The Family Promise — The Greater Boston Food Bank — The If Project — The Journey Institute — The Possibility Project — The Vera Project — TLC Child & Family Services — UNICEF — Unsung Heroes Living History Project — Urban Peak Youth Shelter — Urban Rural Action — Vine Maple Place — Voices of Tomorrow — West Seattle Foodbank — Workforce Development Center — World Food Programme — YMCA Nashville — YMCA of Olympia — Youth Care — Youth Feed India — Youth Homes — Youth Oasis

EDUCATION & ENVIRONMENT

The Arc Gateway — Australian Red Cross — Autistic Self Advocacy Network — Books To Prisoners — Camp Korey — Captain Planet Foundation — Center for Humanistic Change — Communities in Schools — Communities in Schools — Exceptional Equestrians — Experience Learning Community — Farmers Market Coalition — Givit — Goodwin Connections — Honor The Earth — Invested — Jumping Mouse Children’s Center — Langton Green — Literacy Source — Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners — Mainspring Academy — Mission Wear — Missionvale USA — NAMI New York State Inc. — NSW Rural Fire Service — NSW Wildlife — Page Ahead Children's Literacy — Plant A Seed Foundation — Reverb — Salmon Stock — Seek Common Ground — Silver Lining — Valley Forge Educational Services — Whatcom Intergenerational High — Wild Fish Conservancy — Wires — Zoological Society of New Jersey

HEALTH

Atlanta Children’s Shelter — Camp Korey — Cancer for College — Children's Cancer Association — Children’s Dispensary — Cops With Cancer — Creighton Community Foundation — Cystic Fibrosis Foundation — Doctors Without Borders — Edna Adan University Hospital — Episcopal Social Services — Evergreen Treatment Services — Exceptional Equestrians Missouri — Facial Pain Association — Friends of Recovery Association — Full Life Care — GCAPP — Georgia Breast Cancer Coalition Fund — Global Health Council — Hope House Inc. — Inspiring Children Foundation — International Medical Corps — Joe DiMaggio Children’s Hospital — Keep A Breast Foundation — Lifeline Connections — Lines for Life — Little Bit Therapeutic Riding — Michael J Fox Foundation — Mission Oxygen — MOAS Migrant Offshore Aid Station — Power Packs Project — Project Heal — Rainier Foothills Wellness Foundation — RED — Saint Ann Foundation — Saving Grace — Seattle Musicians Access to Sustainable Healthcare — Somali Health Board — Suicide Prevention Education Alliance — The Alzheimer's Society — The Center for Love & Light Institute — The Healing Place — The Northern Lighthouse Inc. — Turn Tulsa Pink — UCP of Orange County — Washington Association for Infant Health — West Seattle Foodbank — Why Hunger — Woodley House Inc. — Yakima Neighborhood Health Services

HUMAN & CIVIL RIGHTS

Abdrorrahman Boromand Center — Afghanaid — Afro Punk — AKUT Search and Rescue — Amnesty International — Aviation For Humanity — BEST Businesses Ending Sex Trafficking and Slavery — Beyond The Bridge — Black Future Co-op Fund — Black Visions Collective — Break Free Inc Free Our Girls — Businesses Ending Slavery & Trafficking — Campaign Zero — Carolina Abortion Fund — Casa de Paz — CASA of Terrebonne Inc. — Center for Human Rights in Iran — Children In Conflict — CLAWS Civil Lawyers Against Sex Slavery — Color Of Change — Diversify Our Narrative — El Centro de la Raza — Equality Foundation of Georgia — Every Town for Gun Safety Support Fund — Family Equality — Family Law CASA — Free 2 Luv — Fundacja Ocalenie - Poland — Georgia Equality — Gender Diversity — Holler Health Justice — Hope for Justice — Human Rights Campaign — International Federation of Red Cross — International Rescue Committee — LGBTea Dances — Lift Up The Vulnerable — Middle East Children's Alliance — Midwest Access Coalition — National Black Womens Justice — New Israel Fund — New Yorker's Against Gun Violence — Out For Immigration — Outright Action International — PFLAG Seattle Chapter — Rockland County Pride Center — Safe House Of Hope — TakeAction Minnesota — The ACLU Foundation of North Carolina — The Hello in There Foundation — The Legal Aid Society — The Marsha P. Johnson Institute — The Trevor Project — The White Helmets of Syria — Together Rising — Voices of Children - Ukraine — War Child UK — Washington United For Marriage — WeTheProtesters (Campaign Zero) — Women's Reproductive Rights Assistance Project (WRRAP) — World Food Programme

 

OUR TEAM

 
 

Catherine Carlile - Executive Director

Catherine Carlile has been the Looking Out Foundation's Executive Director since 2012. Catherine also serves as President and a member of LOF's Board of Directors with overall strategic and operational responsibility for the organization’s program and vision, as well as execution and expansion of its mission. She is also responsible for coordinating biannual grant cycles, campaign management and cultivating new initiatives and partnerships to strengthen the organization's impact and overall fundraising capacity. Catherine has been the driving force behind LOF's most successful campaigns for over a decade, launching worldwide initiatives advocating for human and civil rights, gender equality and the empowerment of women, community development, education and environment, healthcare and the arts. Catherine has over 20 years of experience in the music industry and 15 years in the non-profit sector. In addition to her role at LOF, Catherine is also a published songwriter and author and the Creative Director for Brandi Carlile. She resides in the Pacific Northwest with her wife and two daughters.
Fun Fact: Catherine is an adrenaline junkie!
 
 
 

Yvonne Murray - Communications Manager

Yvonne joined the Looking Out Foundation as our Communications Manager in 2023. She is responsible for managing LOF's communications and creative initiatives, including storytelling and community and social media management. Yvonne also assists in reviewing grant applications, researching crises and identifying potential partners working on the ground. Yvonne is a TV Producer in the UK with a special interest in current affairs. Prior to television, Yvonne won multiple awards for her work in events management. Yvonne comes from the Outer Hebrides of Scotland and has a deep appreciation for indigenous culture, language and music from around the world. She is also the mother of two cheeky rescue dogs - Douglas and Maggie!
Fun Fact: Yvonne is a native Gaelic Speaker!
 
 
 

Kellye Serna - Volunteer Coordinator

Kellye has been LOF's Volunteer Coordinator since 2017. She is responsible for recruiting and leading LOF's volunteer coalition and onsite outreach at Brandi Carlile's concerts and events. Kellye has also volunteered her time with the Disabled American Veterans and Right To Be organizations. Kellye has 6 years of experience in the music industry and in addition to her role at LOF, she is an Assistant Production Manager for Brandi Carlile. She lives just outside of Seattle with her wife and son.
Fun Fact: Kellye was an air traffic controller in the Army!
 
 
 

Jason Anderson - Account Manager

Jason has been with LOF since 2012. He is responsible for financial oversight and donor support. In addition to the full and accurate accounts of receipts, donations, and disbursements, as well as assisting in the execution of grants. Jason has over 21 years of experience in the music industry and non-profit sector.
Fun Fact: Jason does not like delegating!

WHO'S ON OUR BOARD

Catherine Carlile

Brandi Carlile

Tim Hanseroth

Phil Hanseroth

Xiomara Padamsee

Amy Andrews

Jeri Andrews

Holly Zipperer

Roberta Goschler

Amber Molen

OUR PARTNERS

 
 


Looking Out Foundation is
a registered 501(c)3 charity

EIN# 45-5300890

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