The Foundation supports and strengthens liberal leaning, primarily through our grantmaking programs, but also through the meetings we convene and the communities of practice we seek to cultivate.

Our meetings vary in form and serve different purposes. We convene guided but informal discussions called Listenings which help us think through issues in higher education, as well as shape our policies and strategies. These have been largely successful, and as a result, we have developed Virtual Listenings, secure online discussions about designated issues in liberal education to which we invite small groups of participants. Lastly, once the Foundation has made a round of grants, we generally gather our grantees for day-long meetings to share ideas and information, and to determine whether they are synergies amongst the projects. In these ways, the Foundation hopes to create communities of practice whose members can learn from each other, and from where the Foundation can learn. In this way, we strengthen our work and, we hope, help to strengthen liberal education as a whole.

Disseminating widely the knowledge generated by our grantees is a priority for the Foundation. At the end of a given grant period, we ask our grantees to create White Papers detailing project findings that will be of interest and use to other individuals and institutions committed to strengthening liberal education. While White Papers can take the form of written documents, we encourage our grantees to think creatively about presenting the results of their work. The Foundation reviews these submissions, after which we work closely with grantees to disseminate the White Papers through our website—on our Grantees' Publications page—and perhaps through conferences or publications.

The overall direction and programmatic goals of the Foundation's work are articulated in president W. Robert Connor's essays. These include pieces that have been published elsewhere, as well as talks that he has given.

We also maintain a Resources page—a working bibliography of and, whenever possible, links to important articles, websites, and other resources on liberal education, outcomes and assessment, religious work, college access, and classical studies—that may be helpful to those concerned with strengthening liberal learning.