To be one of the region’s most cherished assets, an innovative resource and agile steward, dedicated to supporting the vibrant role area residents play in the future of their community through private philanthropy.

To improve the quality of life across the region by helping individuals, families and businesses make a difference through charitable giving.

• Sharing Information on the issues facing the region and the role private philanthropy can play in building a more vital community.

• Offering Strategic Counsel that helps clarify what it means to make a difference and connects this aspiration with the alternatives available to pursue it.

• Providing Customized Giving Tools and Services that directly support creative, cost-effective and tax-efficient philanthropy.

• Making Direct Investments in community change with grants made possible through the assets entrusted to the Foundation’s unrestricted endowment.