We believe that communities thrive when they are sufficiently resourced, safe to connect and build trust, and invited to solve problems and shape their own futures. In these conditions, we know that communities can mend what’s been broken, grow what’s already working, and imagine what does not yet exist.

Our giving supports local efforts to strengthen the invisible, enduring, and timeless ties that hold communities together.

We support organizations that:

• Deepen collective capacity

• Restore social connection

• Bridge differences

• Dismantle systemic barriers

We invite partners to:

• Experiment

• Adapt

• Grow collective strength

• Create imaginative and sustainable paths forward
  

We strive to practice responsiveness, accountability, reciprocity, and a power-with model of partnership. We seek relationships with organizations rooted in community, and we understand that change in complex systems requires patience, curiosity, creativity, vulnerability, and sometimes failure. We resist the illusions of separateness and perfectionism and pay attention to what’s emerging around us. We are continually learning how to be useful in our space and time.