THE SUMMIT FOUNDATION

We believe that attention to meaningful goals is crucial to the work we do but that credit for such work is not. We have found that the path to our goals is rarely a straight one, however, and we endeavor to remain adaptive to opportunity and in the face of challenges. A willingness to be adaptive is a useful complement, we think, to the clarity with which we hold our intentions... The scale of our funding compared to the magnitude of the crises we seek to address often requires that we look for creative and catalytic solutions. That makes it more likely that we may experience failures along the way. Thus, we remind ourselves to learn as much from our failures as our successes. We do not need be certain of success to justify the risk of any grant: we accept that we and others may fail in spite of our best efforts. In being clear about what we intend to accomplish, we are reminded consistently about how much we do not yet know. Thus, we seek to bring our curiosity along with our..

Primary location: Washington United States