Southmere has long supported higher learning, with an emphasis on financial aid — particularly for students who are the first in their families to attend college. That work reaches libraries as well, and the other institutions that hold a community together.

We support medical research, with a particular focus on cancer and heart disease. Our partners are the hospitals and research institutions doing the patient work of understanding these illnesses and treating them better.

Firefighters, police, and EMS carry a community on their backs. Southmere supports them and the organizations that stand behind them — their health, their training, and the resources they rely on to keep the rest of us safe.

Those who serve give years of their lives, and so do the families beside them. Southmere supports both — through healthcare, the transition to civilian careers, housing, and help for military families.

Southmere helps preserve places that outlast any one of us — the founding documents and civic institutions that carry our nation's memory, and the ancient sites that hold meaning across the world. It is careful, unhurried work.