My mission, and one I would personally bring to this is:

to connect organizations for challenging collaborations that support charitable activities and improve relationships in diverse communities of imagination throughout the upper Midwest.

Do you see how that merges with/emerges from the principles that I suggested earlier?
We choose to connect over the fact of our passions, even where the sources differ.
We embrace openmindedness and imagination.
We seek participatory activities.
We enjoy challenge.
Community is worth building.