Our Purpose

Fetzer’s guiding purpose is to awaken into and serve Spirit for the transformation of self and society.

Our Vision

We believe centering the Sacred is the path to shared flourishing. We believe that social transformation must fundamentally include spiritual ways of understanding the world in addition to scientific ways of knowing. Our goal is to prove that viewing the world as inherently sacred — through a diversity of faith and spiritual beliefs — is necessary for shared flourishing.

Our Promise

The Fetzer Institute is empowering a movement of funders and organizations that are applying spiritual solutions to social problems.

Our 2035 strategic roadmap includes the following five strategies:

• • Build collective action for a sacred worldview.
    At Fetzer, we’re identifying organizations that diagnose and address social problems through a spiritual lens. We invite them to engage in collaborations to create a larger impact together towards shared flourishing.

• • Build spiritually inclusive organizations that can sustain a sacred worldview.
    At Fetzer, we believe centering the Sacred takes a strong commitment to inner work and spiritual capacity development. We nurture diverse religious, faith, and spiritual expressions in our own organization, while supporting other organizations in best practices to ensure belonging and increase faith-fluency.

• • Build the intellectual foundation for a sacred worldview.
    At Fetzer, we’re seeking to put science and spirituality back into balance with each other. Working with leading scientists and scholars, we invest in research and resources that will help us utilize each discipline’s essential contribution towards shared flourishing.

• • Build the cultural foundation for a sacred worldview.
    At Fetzer, we’re working towards more accurate and positive portrayals of faith and spirituality in news and entertainment. We’re supporting a coalition that’s building the business case and resources that media executives need to nurture a culture of belonging for a diversity of religious, faith-based, and spiritual identities.

• Build the philanthropic foundation for a sacred worldview.
  At Fetzer, we’re building transformative relationships with individual donors and funders that are drawing on their deepest values to fund sacred-centered work for shared flourishing. We’re providing educational resources for individual donors and donor advisors and building community with foundation executives and staff to learn together about funding faith and spirituality.