MISSION STATEMENT

We, the Board and Staff of the Surdna Foundation, believe the next decade will bring enormously challenging, complicated, and sometimes disruptive social, economic and cultural changes.  To meet these challenges, we will serve the public good by operating a Family Foundation that funds, shapes and promotes effective, long-term solutions.  We will analyze issues fully, examine the larger systems which affect them, involve grantmakers and grant recipients, define the results we want to achieve, fund separately and collaboratively, work enthusiastically, take risks to find the best solutions, and learn systematically from our successes and failures.