What better way to celebrate GlobeScan’s 25th anniversary than to launch The GlobeScan Foundation, dedicated to the application of social science to help solve humanity’s challenges?
We have chosen the theme “Letting Everyone Speak” to manifest our mission for two reasons. First, we believe everyone has the right to speak on matters that affect their lives. And secondly, when we let everyone speak, we open up the possibility of collaboration, which we believe is essential for meeting humanity’s challenges.
Over the last 25 years, GlobeScan Incorporated has done a great deal of pro bono work—for global NGOs, Complus, UN agencies, and foundations among others.
Now, with our Foundation, we are able to focus and magnify our non-commercial work in order to advance progress for all.
The GlobeScan Foundation Goals:
- To conduct non-commercial global polls on matters of public interest
- To give voice to influential experts and stakeholders on important topics
- To develop and apply engagement processes that can unlock mass collaboration to solve problems
CURRENT INITIATIVES:
With our support, Back2Basics, a social enterprise, has delivered 30,000 pounds of fresh organic food to local Food Banks and service agencies, and trained over 100 volunteers and at-risk youth as organic gardeners.
Learn more:
www.BackToBasicsCanada.com
The Lord Holme Memorial LEAD Scholarship
In memory of former GlobeScan Chairman Richard Holme, this fund aims to facilitate African leadership for sustainable development. In 2012 this provides air fares for seven Senegalese and Gambian LEAD Africa Fellowship participants to attend the Pan-African Session in Lilongwe, Malawi. The Pan African Session is the culmination of the African-led training programme equipping new leaders with the necessary tools and networks to achieve change. The 2012 theme is ‘Population and Climate Change: Towards Climate Compatible Development for Africa.’
As 2012 is both the 25th anniversary of the Brundtland World Commission Report and the 20th anniversary of the Rio Earth Summit, we have launched this initiative with our partners at SustainAbility to reinvigorate leadership and develop a roadmap for a new decade of progress on sustainable development.
Learn more:
TheRegenerationRoadmap.com
UNDER DEVELOPMENT:
10,000 Voices: Surveying the Base of the Pyramid
In partnership with Oxfam International, Dalberg, and the University of California, Berkeley, we are drawing together plans and support for the first-ever Survey of the Base of the Pyramid, planned for 2013.
Learn more:
10,000 Voices: Surveying the Base of the Pyramid (PDF)
The GlobeScan Foundation is dedicated to helping achieve a sustainable and just world for all. We focus on developing and applying a range of social science tools to help unlock collaboration and accelerate progress.
The Regeneration Roadmap
The Regeneration Roadmap, a collaborative and multi-faceted initiative by GlobeScan and SustainAbility, aims to provide a roadmap for achieving sustainable development within the next generation, focusing in particular on ways the private sector can improve sustainable development strategy, increase credibility and deliver results at greater speed and scale.
Nearly 25 years after the Brundtland Commission released Our Common Future, and 20 years after the first Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, The Regeneration Roadmap assesses progress made on the sustainable development agenda and offers a new path forward.
This project is inspired by interviews with sustainable development Pioneers, the Ray Anderson Memorial Interviews, conducted over the last year and will include perspectives from a new generation of innovators and entrepreneurs.
We invite you to join us in the year ahead as we embark on a journey to explore the past, present and future of sustainable development.
Contact
The GlobeScan Foundation
599535 Concession 2 North
RR#1, Annan, Ontario
Canada N0H 1B0
Tel: +1 519 370 0300