Our Theory of Change:
Despite science-driven disruptive technological breakthroughs, the science of living well in the modern world lags behind. Science is slow to change, and scientists are slow to advocate for change. What we are witnessing today is the inability of science, technology, and politics to prevent the negative planetary consequences of an advanced industrial society.  Modern science’s gold standard is a mechanistic understanding of existing phenomena that then leads to control for profitable production in the current worldwide economy. A future that frees humanity from a life dominated by buying, selling, and consuming is utopian and cannot be tested. Yet, the amazing accomplishments of the existing society make utopia not only possible, but necessary. Overabundance and extreme poverty cannot continue to exist side by side in a “flat,” connected world. The harm created by disruptive innovation over the last two centuries is irrefutable, but science wants to prove harm in each individual case before taking remedial action, as preventing potential harm is too theoretical. However, when threats come at you from innumerable aspects of our “civilized” world, theoretical approaches become necessary. Change can start by adopting four basic strategies: 1. Take preventative action in the face of uncertainty; 2. Shift the burden of proof to proponents of an activity; 3. Explore the widest range of possible alternatives; and 4. Increase public participation in decision-making. Given our power to both control and degrade the natural environment that supports us, we must stop ignoring caution in the name of progress and economic growth. The Moore Institute for Plastic Pollution Research will provide accurate data on global plastic pollution while advocating for fundamental change in the system that produces it.

Our Mission:
The Moore Institute for Plastic Pollution Research is a non-profit organization dedicated to expanding knowledge surrounding the impact of plastic pollution on our environment, through focusing on micro- and nano- plastics research and their threat to the Biosphere worldwide.

The Sonia Nabeta Foundation (SNF) believes in an Africa where children with type 1 diabetes (T1D) have an equal chance at long, healthy, gainful and productive lives. SNF’s mission, therefore, is to reduce the hefty cost of treatment and to provide holistic healthcare and community support to children with T1D from low-income households in Africa.
For these underserved communities, SNF partners with Ministries of Health, local and global partners to implement several programs that address the whole child and their multiple determinants of health to achieve good clinical outcomes.

Our Theory of change:
Harambee is an Austrian registered charity providing education and sustainable support to poor communities in Kilifi, Kenya. For that purpose Harambee is partnering with a Kenyan registered charity, GAPEKA. Currently we are educating more than 900 children from extremely poor family backgrounds. Around 600 children are attending Kilifi Vonwald School, a combined Primary and Secondary School funded and maintained by Harambee. In addition, we are supporting about 300 children to learn at various other schools in the area and at higher education institutions. It is our mission to provide quality education up to a first vocational or academic qualification that allows our children to sustainably support themselves and their families. Furthermore, we provide support to the families of our students with the aim of self-reliance and independence. We do so in form of microcredits and business mentoring, as well as in engaging the families in sustainable agriculture and water-management. In cooperation with local governmental offices, we also run relief programs to lift the burdens of natural disasters like droughts.

Our Mission:
It is our aim to not only deliver help to our direct beneficiaries, the children and their families, but to support the community at large in the area around the coastal town of Kilifi. We aim to do so with a focus on sustainability, gender-equality and environmental impact.