Our COMMON Foundation Empowering Creativity | Inspiring Transformation Welcome to Our COMMON Foundation Established in 2007 under the visionary leadership of Dr. Matthew King, Our COMMON Foundation has been an incubator of social and environmental enterprises, launching dozens of new entities since our founding. Our mission is to incubate, nurture, and empower social and environmental entrepreneurs with a non-profit vision, guiding and supporting them in their quest to serve people and the planet. Dr. King leads a dedicated and passionate team of advisors and provides invaluable one-on-one mentorship, leadership skills, and creative advice for those who share an unwavering commitment to drive positive social and environmental change. Our ultimate goal is to facilitate the launch of independent 501c3 organizations strategically designed for long-term success. Since our inception, we have achieved remarkable milestones, securing over $5 million in funding to drive our shared vision. We have helped dozens of leaders launch impactful projects and programs across the United States, Asia, Africa, and Latin America – securing more than $5 million to advance our collective mission to benefit people, the planet, and peace. These initiatives encompass a range of themes, including sustainable development, agricultural and conservation efforts, documentary films, arts, cultural and social justice advocacy programs, Water, Access to Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH), disaster relief efforts, educational scholarships focused on minority and underserved students and teachers who serve them, and other great causes. We focus on a holistic approach to advising, mentoring, and nurturing emerging leaders. If you’re ready to embark on a transformative journey, join us. Embrace the fun, challenge the norms, create a world where dreams are made real, and the impact reverberates for generations. If you’re interested in learning more, get in touch.

Thrive partners with willing and capable people to work toward the goal of economic self-sufficiency and stability through employment by helping members overcome barriers to gaining, maintaining and advancing at work.

We seek out and collaborate with community leaders, other values-aligned social change organizations, foundations, individual philanthropists, and regional SVPs to co-create an ecosystem where magic happens — the magic of increased experimentation, rapid learning, and local-regional-national-global connections. In cultivating and expanding this network together: We catalyze more resources We catalyze and mobilize financial resources — both our own and from others — applying them toward cross-sector and multi-community solutions and innovations. We shift these resources away from traditional systems that only benefit a few, and we move them to collective and collaborative approaches that benefit many. We disrupt traditional philanthropy We demonstrate ways to disrupt and shift traditional philanthropy, moving it from being individualistic and disconnected to being community-centered in addressing root causes of injustice. We are embedded in the communities we serve, co-creating with them for the long-haul, not just in single touch points. We influence change We inspire individual philanthropists to understand the priorities that communities have — and how to strategically partner, fund, and give agency to community leaders in advancing change.

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