The Brignola Foundation is a trauma-informed, disability-led nonprofit building a global model for systemic restoration. We create self-sustaining animal sanctuaries that double as foster homes for youth ages 13 and up—spaces where care becomes infrastructure, and mentorship becomes legacy. Our sanctuaries are led by women native to each region, ensuring cultural fluency, community trust, and long-term sustainability.
To fund operations and scale globally, we host corporate retreats and trainings on-site—inviting institutions to invest in ethical transformation while supporting youth aging out of foster care. Through mentorship partnerships, these youth gain access to networks, opportunities, and leadership pipelines that honor their lived experience.
Our flagship initiatives include:
The Puppetized Framework™: A licensed equity model that disrupts repeating systemic patterns and protects authorship across sectors.
Operation Foxtrot: A tactical archive of field interventions that documents real-time systems failure and community-led solutions.
The Brignola Law: A policy proposal that codifies authorship protection for lived experience experts and challenges extractive norms.
The Education Pipeline: A trauma-informed curriculum and cohort model that prepares youth and community leaders to replicate our framework with fidelity and creates a pathway for those directly impacted by research to obtain an education that allows them to become researchers and clinicians.
Holistic Housing Initiative: A systems restoration model that integrates housing, wellness, and ancestral memory into community design.
Our mission is to create the conditions for transformation—where lived experience is not tokenized, but licensed; where care is not outsourced, but embedded; and where communities are not served, but sovereign. We are actively seeking funding and partnerships to expand our sanctuary model, scale our initiatives, and build a legacy of ethical innovation across health, education, technology, and policy.
