Founded in 1964 by Arthur D. Norcross, the mission of the Norcross Wildlife Foundation is to protect, enhance and expand habitat for wildlife, primarily at the Norcross Wildlife Sanctuary in the form of land holdings in the surrounding towns; to propagate, establish, restore and maintain populations of threatened and endangered plants native to New England; to provide the public with education programs in natural and environmental science; to protect and conserve wild land and wildlife wherever threatened; and to support through grants, gifts, easements and loans for land, the activities of other nonprofit wildlife conservation organizations.