Eugene M. Lang Foundation The Eugene M. Lang Foundation is a private family foundation that seeks to effect change in the areas of arts and culture education health and human services and justice. The Foundation prioritizes giving to programs and organizations that are demonstrably creative in concept and excellent in substance that elevate peoples spirits goals and capacities abovethe level of basic needs primarily through opportunities for meaningful education participation in the arts and civic activity and enhanced health education and social services and that promote inventiveness and entrepreneurship. Giving should not be mechanical.