As Greater Boston's community foundation, the Boston Foundation devotes its resources to building and sustaining a vital, prosperous city and region, where justice and opportunity are extended to everyone. The Foundation fulfills this mission in three principal ways: (1) Making grants to nonprofit organizations and designing special funding initiatives to address this community's critical challenges;(2) Working in partnership with donors and other funders to achieve high-impact philanthropy; and (3) Serving as a civic hub and center of information, where ideas are shared, levers for change are identified, and common agendas for the future are developed.