Mission and Purposes

Mission Statement: The Suffolk Foundation is an organization of individuals committed to the following:

• Engage in charitable grant making.
• Take other actions for a broad range of charitable needs to benefit the people of the City of Suffolk, Virginia, and the surrounding areas.
• Facilitate and develop philanthropy.

Purposes: The purposes of the Suffolk Foundation are as follows:

• Professionally manage and distribute income and portions of the principal (if that is the donor’s wish) from charitable gifts and bequests in a manner consistent with the donor’s specific and general interests.
• Maintain and enhance health, education, arts, culture, and humanities, public and societal benefits, human needs and services, environmental and animal welfare, and youth and elderly programs in the City of Suffolk and surrounding areas through the support of qualified non-profit organizations.
• Through the actions of the Board and staff, provide philanthropic leadership and help create and promote efforts among citizens to improve the quality of life in the City of Suffolk and the surrounding areas.