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501(c)(3) public charity · Delaware nonprofit

Evidence for healthier, more resilient communities.

We are building research and fellowship programs that help practitioners test what works, share it responsibly, and carry it back home.

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501(c)(3)IRS-recognized public charity
DelawareNonprofit corporation, est. 2025
Open sourceTools we build will be free to reuse
Board-governedGoverned by a three-person board

How we work

Four steps, every program.

1

Evidence

Study what actually improves community health and resilience, rather than relying on assumption.

2

Train

Prepare practitioners and community leaders through a structured fellowship model.

3

Return

Every fellow carries what they've learned back to their own community.

4

Measure

Plan to track real-world outcomes so partners can see what works.

Programs

Two programs in development.

Illustration: two colleagues reviewing outcome charts at a table

In development

Impact & Evaluation Lab

A research program designed to separate what actually improves lives from what merely sounds promising.

Details
Who it's for
Funders and practitioners working in community health and resilience.
Model
Applied research and outcomes tracking, designed in partnership with the programs it studies.
Current focus
Building the evaluation framework and partner criteria before onboarding the first programs.
Illustration: a facilitator teaching a seated group of fellows in a training session

In development

Global Fellows Program

A tiered scholarship program built on a train-the-trainer model, so knowledge spreads through a community instead of staying with a few people.

Details
Who it's for
Community health and resilience practitioners nominated by their communities.
Model
Tiered scholarships funding a structured, international fellowship convening built around a train-the-trainer format.
Commitment
Every fellow returns home committed to teaching what they've learned.
Current focus
Defining selection criteria and the first fellowship cohort's curriculum.

Why we started

Good intentions are not the same as results.

Communities everywhere run programs meant to improve health and resilience. Many of them sound promising. Far fewer have been tested in a way that tells anyone whether they actually work, and the knowledge that does exist tends to stay with a few people instead of spreading.

We started the Global Wellbeing Institute to close that gap: to study what helps, to train practitioners who can carry it home, and to measure the results in the open so others can use them.

We are new, and we say so. What we can promise is how we will work: evidence first, shared openly, and returned to the communities it came from.

About

The legal details.

Global Wellbeing Institute is the public program name of Global Institute for Health and Economic Wellbeing Inc., a Delaware nonstock nonprofit corporation, now in its early formation stage.

Legal name
Global Institute for Health and Economic Wellbeing Inc.
Public program name
Global Wellbeing Institute
Federal tax status
Recognized by the IRS as a 501(c)(3) public charity
EIN
42-5049566
Contact
director@globalwellbeinginstitute.org

Partner with us

Help us build the first cohort and the first evidence.

We welcome conversations with funders, corporate partners and practitioners. Ask for our partner prospectus and we will send it with a short note on what a gift or partnership makes possible.

Request the prospectus

director@globalwellbeinginstitute.org