The Friends of Hopewell Furnace is a citizen organization whose mission is to support the preservation, maintenance and activities of Hopewell Furnace National Historic Site. The Friends objectives are to create public support for expanding park programs, to encourage gifts, endowments and memorials for the park, to intensify community awareness and use of the park, to provide direct financial assistance by purchasing special and unusual items which would be of benefit but cannot be purchased from the budget of the park, to sponsor programs designed to aid the mission of the park, and to encourage people to become park volunteers.