Guiding Principles

  • Broad-Based Grantmaking: We are committed to providing funding in a variety of areas, reflecting the diverse interests of our donors and grantees as well as the community based needs of our region.
  • Promoting Sustainable Programs and Projects: We focus our resources on those institutions and projects that are likely to produce benefits that endure beyond the period of our funding.
  • Community Empowerment: We seek to undertake grantmaking that is transformative in nature which leads to empowerment of individuals, families and communities. We support efforts to help families and neighborhoods thrive as cornerstones of healthy communities.
  • Strengthening the Capacity of the Nonprofit Sector: Our foundation supports efforts that build the governance, management, financial, and organizational capacities of individual nonprofit agencies and the sector as a whole.
  • Inclusiveness, Cultural Understanding and Diversity: We are committed to improving the cultural understanding of Punta de Mita’s diverse communities by promoting inclusiveness in our foundation’s operations, community based outreach and grant making.
  • Transparency & Accountability: We are an ethical foundation, promoting integrity, transparency and accountability in all the work that we do.
  • Commitment to Partnership: We seek strategic partners (nonprofit, academic and corporate) that can help further our mission to improve the quality of life in the Punta de Mita region.
  • Cooperative Efforts between the Private and Public Sectors: While the Foundation does not typically make grants directly to public agencies, we support efforts that enable non-profit organizations and public agencies to work together to improve the planning, coordination, and delivery of services throughout our region.
  • Results Oriented: The foundation strives to maximize the impact of its grantmaking in the region that it serves. Our donors and grantees are important to us, and we commit the time and effort needed to understand and achieve beneficial and measurable results