Easter Island Foundation - Objectives of The Foundation

Objectives of The Foundation

• To promote an interest in research on Easter Island and other Pacific islands by anthropologists, archaeologists, linguists, environmentalists, and members of other scientific, historical, and cultural disciplines.

• To work toward the conservation and preservation of Easter Island’s cultural heritage and environmental character as well as historic sites and monuments in Polynesia.

• To inform and educate local, national, and international groups and communities in addition to the general public with regard to Easter Island’s unique heritage and priceless monumental treasures.

• To facilitate communication about Easter Island and other Pacific islands among scientific disciplines, historians, and other interested parties through publication of journals, books, guides, and other media-related sources and conferences.

• To develop an endowment fund through investments, bequests, corporate and Easter Island Foundation contributions, and other related sources — to provide a pool of financial resources for the support of the Foundation’s programs.

• To help support the William Mulloy Library for the study of Easter Island and various related disciplines, in association with the island’s Museo Antropológico Padre Sebastián Englert.

• To provide a scholarship program for promising Rapa Nui secondary and college students to ensure them an opportunity for advanced academic studies.

• To encourage economic development activities on Easter Island that will benefit the Rapa Nui and that will honor and maintain the cultural and environmental character of the island.