Our Mission:
Promote Ayn Rand and Advance Objectivism

Prometheus Foundation is an independent, nonprofit enterprise whose mission is to promote Ayn Rand and advance her philosophy, Objectivism. We achieve this mission by finding and funding independent thinkers who have good ideas, work smart, follow through, and get things done.

Ayn Rand wrote:

I regard the spread of Objectivism through today’s culture as an intellectual movement—i.e., a trend among independent individuals who share the same ideas—not as an organized movement…. I want, therefore, to make it emphatically clear that Objectivism is not an organized movement….

I shall not establish or endorse any type of school or organization purporting to represent or be a spokesman for Objectivism….

If students, supporters, or friends of Objectivism wish to form local groups of their own—for such purposes as the study, discussion, and dissemination of Objectivist ideas—they’re welcome to do so. They can be of great value and help the spread of Objectivism, and will earn my sympathetic interest and sincere appreciation—provided they do not attempt to act as spokesmen for Objectivism and do not associate or collaborate with Objectivism’s avowed enemies.

—Ayn Rand, a statement of policy, part 1, The Objectivist, vol. 5, June 1968.

We think individuals and organizations acting separately or together in the spirit of entrepreneurship can and will advance Objectivism more effectively than an organized movement ever could. Thus, Prometheus Foundation works to help create and support a network of such independent thinkers and people of action.