Community Foundation for Palm Beach and Martin Counties

Our Mission

The Community Foundation devotes its resources to building and sustaining vital, prosperous communities region wide through the power of charitable giving.

We fulfill this mission in three principal ways:

• Working in partnership with our donors and other funders to achieve high-impact philanthropy:
• Making grants to effective nonprofit organizations and designing special funding initiatives to address this community’s critical challenges;
• Serving as a catalyst, convenor, leader and center of community knowledge where ideas and data are shared, opportunities for positive change are identified, and common agendas for the future are developed in partnership with others.

Goals

• Provide a strong role of leadership in promoting philanthropy.
• Connect donors and others with opportunities to make a positive difference.
• Address community issues through grantmaking and support of effective nonprofits efforts.
• Identify, lead, and collaborate in our areas of priority in order to leverage our human, financial, and informational capital for achievement of positive change. 

Guiding Principles

• Invest donor funds responsibly to preserve capital, provide growth, and create income for grantmaking.
• Create and encourage ways of giving that meet the philanthropic and financial goals of a broad spectrum of donors.
• Promote the effective delivery of programs and services to our donors and our grantees.
• Anticipate, identify, and assist in addressing community needs that are new, unmet, or not widely recognized.
• Foster understanding and cooperation among diverse cultural, ethnic, geographic, and socioeconomic groups.

Our Vision

The Community Foundation for Palm Beach and Martin Counties’ vision is to be the “go to place” for philanthropy in Palm Beach and Martin counties. We strive to improve our communities through the power of giving.