The Clowes Fund, a family foundation, seeks to enhance the common good by encouraging organizations and projects that help to build a just and equitable society, create opportunities for initiative, foster creativity and the growth of knowledge, and promote appreciation of the natural environment. It pursues these goals by awarding grants in three areas: arts, education, and social services. It also recognizes the special value of efforts that create links among these areas. The fund has a special interest in supporting projects that strengthen the communities in which Clowes family members and the foundation's directors live and work. .