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Find your way inOnly 17% of the UN’s sustainable development targets are on track.
The world’s biggest challenges are deeply systemic, so no one can solve them alone. We bring government, business and civil society together for the long haul, and the Spiral Breakthrough shows them how.
The knowledge exists. The money exists. The people who care exist. What is missing is a way to bring them together.
London. A sixteen-year-old is excluded from school. No plan, and no one responsible for what happens next. By that evening, a gang has noticed him.
We brought police, schools, the NHS, businesses and young people together to share responsibility for every young person’s future. Now a teenager like him finds a pathway, not a gang.
Odisha, India. A fifteen-year-old girl is told she will be married next month. Her school, the police, the village council and the state all have a part to play in stopping it. None of them acts together, and she leaves school.
We brought police, government, schools and young changemakers together across Odisha, Telangana and Kerala. Now her village acts as one to stop child marriage, and she stays in school.
London, 2021. Families arrive from Kabul after the city falls. Housing, schools, work and health care sit with different departments and charities, and no one holds the whole picture.
We brought HM Treasury, the Home Office, the GLA, Tesco, the British Red Cross, Save the Children and community leaders together as one coalition. Families found homes.
The UAE. Scientists, ministers and industry leaders confront the climate crisis in separate rooms. The science, the capital and the policy exist, but there is no shared process.
We brought them to one table at the Breakthrough Summit in Abu Dhabi in 2023, with a shared process and a shared goal: a roadmap for carbon removal in the UAE.
“All of us need to take responsibility for all the challenges.”
Mac McKenzie, Chief Executive of the Bridge Institute, in Solving the problems we can’t solve alone (opens in a new tab)
For philanthropists, foundations, companies and governments. Every way in starts with a conversation.
Unrestricted support lets a new mission begin before it has a funder of its own. Those who back us become part of the work: close to the thinking, and invited into the conversation about what comes next.
For philanthropists and foundations. A circle of founding partners is forming, by invitation.
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Back a named mission, from knife crime in London to young changemakers in Kashmir, and follow the change it makes.
For philanthropists and foundations
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Set or co-own a mission on a challenge that matters to you, and let your people learn to lead the change.
For companies and governments
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“The Bridge Institute’s Afghan Refugee Coalition was the best coalition of that kind I have seen productive. The approach should be recommendable for refugee needs response in the UK.”
Emery IgiranezaHead of Programmes, International Rescue Committee
However you come in, it starts with a conversation about what you want to change.
Philanthropy Lead, for philanthropists and foundations
Email SonyaChief Executive, for companies and governments
Email MacThe Bridge Institute is a registered charity in England and Wales, no. 1174490.
