The conviction that our fortunes are bound together underlies everything the Foundation funds. The well-being of any one community is tied to the well-being of others, and the inherited divisions of nation, class, and circumstance obscure a more fundamental interdependence.
Acting from this premise reorders our priorities. It asks us to measure progress not by the gains of a few but by the rising capacity of the whole, and to direct our resources toward the work that widens who gets to take part.
“We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny.”Martin Luther King Jr.
In Practice
Funding work that brings communities of different backgrounds into shared purpose.
Prioritising those too often left out, in the knowledge that the whole rises with its least-served members.
Choosing partners by how widely the benefit of their work is shared.