Uploaded September 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
For too long, the global institutions and initiatives tasked with saving lives and advancing human well-being have fallen short. From humanitarian assistance to food security to global health, the world is using systems built in the 20th century to tackle 21st-century threats. The world’s most vulnerable people deserve better.
Today, at a moment of profound geopolitical and technological disruption, we have an opportunity to re-imagine the way individuals, institutions, and even nations work together. The data is clear: around the world, people support global cooperation against shared threats — but only if it delivers results.
Build the Shared Future is an effort to answer this urgent call. These initiatives, launched in September 2025, seek to inspire and inform global cooperation that’s equal to the challenges of the 21st century. The Rockefeller Foundation will partner with innovative thinkers and leaders around the world to challenge the status quo, advance creative solutions, and harness new technology to confront today’s common threats. Together, we seek to build the future so it’s healthier, better nourished, wealthier, more stable and secure.
rockefellerfoundation.org/build-the-shared-future
For too long, the global institutions and initiatives tasked with saving lives and advancing human well-being have fallen short. From humanitarian assistance to food security to global health, the world is using systems built in the 20th century to tackle 21st-century threats. The world’s most vulnerable people deserve better.
Today, at a moment of profound geopolitical and technological disruption, we have an opportunity to re-imagine the way individuals, institutions, and even nations work together. The data is clear: around the world, people support global cooperation against shared threats — but only if it delivers results.
Build the Shared Future is an effort to answer this urgent call. These initiatives, launched in September 2025, seek to inspire and inform global cooperation that’s equal to the challenges of the 21st century. The Rockefeller Foundation will partner with innovative thinkers and leaders around the world to challenge the status quo, advance creative solutions, and harness new technology to confront today’s common threats. Together, we seek to build the future so it’s healthier, better nourished, wealthier, more stable and secure.
rockefellerfoundation.org/build-the-shared-future
