ABUNDANCE FOUNDATION
127 University Avenue, Berkeley, CA 94710 www.abundance.org

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Organizations Filed Purposes: The Abundance Foundation and our program partners train, support and empower local leaders in communities worldwide to develop new capacities that build lasting improvements in health and quality of life. We work to promote whole and healthy communities by focusing on the intersection of Health, Arts and Education, and Empowerment. The Abundance Foundation serves as a connective hub to a network of visionaries, innovative projects, and organizations that are working together to transform scarcity into abundance. We help organizations develop innovative partnerships that create an impact that they could not have achieved on their own. The Abundance Foundation provides direct programmatic support and makes grants to organizations aligned with its mission to improve global health by strengthening local health systems, by supporting local health leaders and through medical research, as well as to organizations aligned with its mission of incubating innovative arts and educational projects

The Abundance Foundation and our program partners train, support and empower local leaders in communities worldwide to develop new capacities that build lasting improvements in health and quality of life. We work to promote whole and healthy communities

HEALTH: Dr. Stephen Kahn, the Foundation's President, is a board-certified emergency medicine physician with extensive experience working in the global health arena. He provides clinical and health system expertise as well as on-the-ground engagement with the foundation's health program partners. In 2019, the Abundance Foundation continued and built on its multifaceted Global Health commitment -- made in partnership with Harvard Medical School and Partners In Health -- that was in its ninth year. This commitment is called the Abundance Project for Global Health (APGH). Abundance continued support of the Masters of Medical Science in Global Health Delivery (MMSc-GHD) at Harvard Medical School, a two-year program that provides training and mentoring for future global health leaders. As noted by the Director of the MMSc-GHD program Dr. Joia Mukherjee, Abundance's "foundational support of the MMSc-GHD program has empowered clinicians, project managers, and activists to develop the skills to design, implement, and evaluate programs that directly improve the health of the world's poor and marginalized in more than a dozen countries across the globe." Abundance Foundation's President, Dr. Stephen Kahn delivered various lectures in 2019, including one at Harvard Medical School for MMSc-GHD students and Global Health Delivery Intensive students. That lecture focused on the Haitian cholera epidemic, where Abundance-supported research proved the effectiveness of the Cholera vaccine for epidemic control, which has fundamentally changed paradigms around the treatment and prevention of Cholera epidemics worldwide. Abundance Foundation produced a video of this lecture, which is available as a resource for those interested in the work. Through the APGH, Abundance partnered with Dr. Eugene Richardson, Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, and clinical lead for Partners in Health's Ebola response. Dr. Richardson is a co-author of the Lancet Commission on Reparations and Redistributive Justice, which aims to explore moral, legal, economic, historical, and political evidence for various global claims to reparations and redistributive justice. The APGH also continued to support the Ebola research of Dr. Megan Murray, Director of Harvard Medical School's Global Health Research Core. As part of the APGH, Abundance continued its partnership with Better Evidence at Ariadne Labs (a center for health systems innovation at the Harvard School of Public Health) to support the development and dissemination of essential medical knowledge to a global network of doctors, nurses, and community health workers. The Abundance Foundation worked with a number of medical professionals to identify people and projects that could be valuable partners for work in Costa Rica. In 2019, Dr. Stephen Kahn, Dr. Asaf Bitton, and Dr. Dan Schwarz, of Ariadne Labs, traveled to Costa Rica and met with Andres Valenciano (President of the Costa Rican National Institute of Learning) and Dr. Pablo Ortiz (former Director of the Coto Brus Health Region) to discuss programs addressing indigenous and migrant populations. The trip focused on governance, financing, and quality issues in Costa Rica's health system through non-traditional actors such as local NGO's and international actors. In 2019, Dr. Stephen Kahn -- in partnership with and Harvard Medical School's Dean George Daley and Dr. Paul Farmer -- helped co-lead a group of committed global health supporters from Harvard Medical School's Global Health and Service Advisory Council to various sites in Rwanda. The trip included home and hospital visits in Rwinkwavu, a site visit to Butaro hospital, and the ribbon cutting for the University of Global Health Equity's new campus. The trip led directly to a new facet of the Abundance Project for Global Health: the creation of the Rwandan Researcher Capacity Building program [IORT] and a special supplement in the Annals of Global Health, a peer-reviewed open access journal, highlighting IORT research. In 2019, the Abundance Foundation supported the Global Pediatric Alliance (GPA) to improve maternal and infant health in Mexico and Central America by funding the capacity building of their small grants program, and the Foundation's President continued to serve on GPA's Board of Trustees.

Arts & Education: In 2019, the Abundance Foundation continued to provide program services, staff support, and grant administration for the implementation of Agency by Design (AbD), a research project funded through the Harvard Graduate School of Education, which explores the promises, practices, and pedagogies of maker-centered learning; and resulted in the publication of the book Maker-Centered Learning: Empowering Young People to Shape Their Worlds. In addition to research on K-12 maker-centered learning, the work included an action-research component based in Oakland, CA, with over 20 teachers and administrators from a consortium of six public, charter, and private schools. Abundance Foundation played a key strategic and operational role in the forming and programmatic work of Agency by Design Oakland, an independent non-profit organization focused on maker-centered learning practices and professional development, an offshoot of the original research project. In 2019, Abundance Foundation supported this non-profit to reach 3,766 Oakland youth. The Abundance Foundation continued to provide program services and grant administration for Out of Eden Learn (OOEL). OOEL is a unique, custom-built social media platform for students aged 3-19. The program provides collective learning experiences -- inspired by the journey of Pulitzer-prize winning journalist Paul Salopek -- grouping together students of similar ages from diverse geographical and socioeconomic settings. Salopek is roughly halfway through an epic journey, called Out of Eden Walk (OOEW), which is an on-foot, 21,000-mile route retracing the migratory pathways of our ancient human ancestors and is sponsored by National Geographic Society. The Abundance Foundation has provided grants as well as program and administrative assistance to OOEW, and the Foundation's President continued to serve on OOEW's Board of Trustees. To date, this entirely free program has engaged over 35,000 students in 62 countries and 42 states. The Abundance Foundation also facilitated a collaboration between Dr. Sam Myers at the Planetary Health Alliance and OOEL's team of researchers which yielded a new curriculum focused on planetary health and climate change, as well as a video made for young learners who are new to exploring these issues. The Abundance Foundation also provided grants as well as program and administrative assistance to Voice of Witness (a non-profit that advances human rights by amplifying the voices of people impacted by systemic injustice) as well as Chapter 510 (an Oakland-based non-profit youth writing center, inspired by the successful San Francisco-based "826 Valencia," that was founded by Dave Eggers).

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