The mission of the Amity Club is to promote charitable, intellectual, and civic pursuits among its members and to create, uphold and perpetuate in the business and professional community the highest ethical standards together with true friendship among its members. Additionally, the Amity Club strives to encourage members to provide unselfish service to their fellow citizens, to emphasize humanitarian virtues in their daily activities among all people and to participate in community enterprises formulated for the common welfare and good of the community.

To these ends the Amity Club directs its philanthropic energies in the form of scholarship support to academically qualified young people from the greater New Haven area and to organizations and activities designed for the community and individual betterment.