With $2.2M, High Times publisher launches foundation for humanitarian, community, and global impact

Josh Kesselman, founder of RAW Rolling Papers and most recently, the publisher of High Times Magazine, has announced the launch of the Foundation for Making the World a Better Place to support humanitarian, community and global impact initiatives. The foundation–with an initial endowment of $2.2 million–has already awarded $40,000 to Freedom Grow to support people impacted by cannabis-related incarceration and nearly $80,000 to Senai Global to bolster clean water rehabilitation projects in Ethiopia. The foundation expands Kesselman’s earlier philanthropic efforts that include an estimated $3.5 million to fund clean water access, orphan programs. and community assistance initiatives.