Mission

The Commonwealth Foundation is an independent, non-profit research and educational institute that develops and advances public policies based on the nation’s founding principles of limited government, economic freedom, and personal responsibility.

Values

The Commonwealth Foundation’s research and educational efforts are firmly established on several core values that form the basis of a “civil society.” The activities of the Foundation are therefore committed to:

• Respecting and protecting the lives and property of others.
• Recognizing the inseparability of personal and economic freedom.
• Upholding personal responsibility and accountability for one’s actions.
• Challenging the general perception that government intervention is the most appropriate and most efficient means of solving societal problems.
• Demonstrating the power of private institutions—both for-profit and non-profit—to create a good and civil society.
• Promoting the use of economic reasoning to understand a world of scarcity, trade-offs, and the unseen consequences of governmental solutions to societal problems.