Our Strategy

The Institute fills an important gap in research funding: innovative ideas that are simply too small or risky to interest big funders but which have great potential for leveraging change in the health of local communities, and in communities far beyond the original partners.

• We work at the individual and community level on problems of mutual concern.
• We experiment with people, not on people.

The teams we support are accelerating technology development and improving population health by approaching old problems in novel ways.

We seek out very special projects that can make a big impact with very little money. Our projects tackle a problem that hasn’t been addressed before or an old problem that needs a new approach.

We look for projects that create a multiplier effects. That build new relationships, develop a new approach, or hold the potential for abitrage.