Obama Foundation | 479,748 followers on LinkedIn. Our mission is to inspire, empower, and connect people to change their world. | At the Obama Foundation, we are guided by a core belief: that ordinary people working together can change history. Our mission is to inspire those people to take action, empower them to change their world for the better, and connect them so they can achieve more together than they can alone. We were founded by community organizers, so when we seek change, we do it by bringing people together.