The mission of the Foley Foundation is to secure the freedom of Americans held unjustly captive aboard, prevent future hostage-taking, and promote journalist safety. Conflict journalist and humanitarian James Foley became the first American civilian killed by ISIS when the group brutally beheaded him in August 2014. Since that time, the foundation established in his name carries forward his legacy of inspiring moral courage in others.

Over the last decade, the Foundation has supported dozens of families through the horror of hostage-taking, successfully secured reforms to U.S. hostage policies that led to the creation of a new government structurally focused on resolving cases involving hostage-taking and wrongful detention of U.S. nationals.  Since those reforms were implemented, over 120 Americans have been reunited with their families. Unfortunately, more must be done to free nearly 50 Americans held captive abroad today. The Foley Foundation has also created a journalist safety education curriculum that is in use by over a dozen universities around the world to mitigate potential harm to journalists exercising the rights of a free press.

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