The Robert Lee Blaffer Foundation was created to preserve, promote and support, financially, and otherwise, the various historic and educational attributes of New Harmony, Indiana.
The 501(c)(3) Private Operating Foundation has been organized exclusively for charitable, religious, scientific, literary or educational purposes:
To promote and encourage historical research related to New Harmony
To acquire by purchase, gift, devise or otherwise, title to or custody and control of historic locations and structures in and around New Harmony
To preserve and protect buildings and sites of historic interest in and around New Harmony
To collect and preserve records, relics and other things of historic interest related to New Harmony
To mark places of historic interest in and around New Harmony with suitable monuments, and
To foster and promote public knowledge of and interest in New Harmony history.