Principles

The Charles Lafitte Foundation believes:
Guiding Principles

• Education provides the tools for individuals to create their own unique and positive solutions.


• Innovation, creativity, initiative and risk-taking are essential to success.


• Diversity and inclusively are essential for creativity and innovation.


• A society's future is dependent upon the quality of nurturance and investment in its children.


• The arts are a vital part of expressing our culture.


• The human condition can be improved by the appropriate use of education, the arts, science and technology.

• We prefer projects/programs that make a big difference to some individual's critical needs over a project that will make a small difference to many individual's minor needs.


• We like our grants to make a big difference to the project or program being funded.


• We prefer projects/programs that provide a permanent solution rather than a temporary bandage. The Foundation will support one-time events aimed at bettering a person's quality of life.


• We believe in each individual's ability to make a difference and contribute to society. We prefer to fund projects that remove barriers to full economic and social participation in society.


• We do not support studies by groups advocating for a political or public policy perspective; or fund projects whose purpose would benefit principally the members of sectarian or religious organizations.


• We believe that that arts are a vital part of expressing our culture. We prefer funding projects that allow access to the arts to all members of society.