Emerging Issues
The challenges communities will grapple with in the future don’t typically overlap with the challenges they face right now. The world needs someone who’s looking around the corner to recognize, examine, and evaluate tomorrow’s solutions—today.
Programs
Through our incubator pilots, we source, vet, and nurture cutting-edge solutions for the problems of tomorrow.
Working in concert with other Foundation programs and business partners, we develop theories of change and test new approaches to challenges across a spectrum of disciplines, including geopolitical risk, democracy and capitalism, and business-led solutions to wicked problems.
Latest Content
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation and Tata Consultancy Services’ (TCS) have announced the winner for the inaugural Pitch for Purpose competition. Held in conjunction with the 3rd annual Digital Empowers Summit, the competition featured six mission-driven founders whose startups are leveraging technology to address social and environmental challenges – from eliminating food insecurity to providing a crowdfunding platform for Black entrepreneurs.
Dr. Adams sat down with U.S. Chamber President Suzanne Clark to share his expertise with the business community. They talked about how our understanding of the novel coronavirus has changed since March, what vaccine production and distribution might look like, the link between community health and economic prosperity, and much more.
In case you missed it, yesterday we gathered a handful of business leaders and census experts to discuss why they care about the 2020 Census and why you should too. Watch the conversation to learn how the 2020 Census will impact your community for the next decade:
The coronavirus pandemic has changed the world in many ways. It has altered nearly every facet of our lives – the way we work, travel, learn, and more. As we learn how to navigate life in a pandemic, global leadership across all sectors – public, private, and philanthropic – has never been more important.
We sat down with business leaders driving the global corporate response to COVID-19 to learn more about their efforts, how they are navigating this uncharted territory, and what advice they have for others. Next up in our COVID-19 Business in Action interview series are Dr. Jay J. Schnitzer, chief medical and technology officer, MITRE, and Dr. John Halamka, president of Mayo Clinic Platform.
