Global Work
We develop partnerships around challenges that cross borders, with local leadership and public accountability.
Public Missions
Proposed areas for collaboration. Missions require a local mandate, capable partners, and public terms.
The common wellOriginal sculpture · Blender
Make health, learning, rights, and public knowledge more portable and resilient.
Preparedness compacts, open learning systems, accessible civic tools, and continuity of care.
Holding the rainOriginal sculpture · Blender
Steward climate, water, food, and biodiversity as interdependent public foundations.
Shared risk intelligence, adaptation protocols, and watershed and food-system resilience.
An open thresholdOriginal sculpture · Blender
Help public systems work together without asking communities to surrender control.
Rights-preserving standards, multilingual services, mutual-aid playbooks, and emergency coordination.
A shared measureOriginal sculpture · Blender
Shape AI, biotechnology, and space development around public benefit before rules harden.
Foresight, model governance, public-interest standards, and benefit-sharing frameworks.
Collaboration
A local partner defines the problem. A small coalition maps the system, assembles the evidence, and identifies what can be built now.
Place brief · partner map · first prototypeA time-bound, cross-border team forms around one measurable objective, with an accountable host, published terms, and a clear review point.
Mission charter · delivery plan · public scorecardThe useful parts of the work become reusable: open standards, model language, implementation playbooks, and knowledge other places can adapt.
Open standard · model policy · field guideWhen philanthropy joins a mission, resources follow public purpose, local governance, transparent terms, and an exit that leaves capability behind.
Funding charter · safeguards · stewardship planOur collaborations follow the Foundation’s shared working method, with stewardship transferred to capable local institutions.
Guardrails
No mission begins without a legitimate local mandate and named local stewardship.
Partners exchange knowledge and power; communities are not treated as research sites or distribution channels.
People retain rights over their information, with collection limited to what the work genuinely requires.
Scientific evidence, public administration, lived experience, and cultural knowledge meet without one erasing the others.
Terms, decisions, learning, and material conflicts are documented so the work can be scrutinized.
Partners can challenge, reshape, or exit the work without losing ownership of what they helped create.
Partnership
Tell us about the challenge, the communities involved, and the partners ready to act.
