Projects
In the first three years of the Foundation, priority will be given to encouraging inter-faith initiatives to tackle global poverty and to improve through education the understanding of the great religions. The Foundation will focus on:
- Supporting progress on the Millennium Development Goals. In particular, the Foundation has identified eradicating deaths from malaria as an immediate priority. Faith groups working together are ideally placed to step up pressure on Governments to deliver the resources needed and to use their places of worship as centres for community-based health initiatives on the ground to end the million deaths a year from the disease. Learn more
- Improving and expanding educational material for children about faith and the shared values of the world's major religions. We will produce and support the production of high-quality web-based and inter-active material as well as books and magazines. Learn more
- Working with some of the world's most respected scholars to examine the links between religion, politics and economics in the 21st Century. As a first step, the Foundation and Yale University are partners in an initiative that will include developing a high quality academic course, research opportunities and conferences. Materials will be widely disseminated for free on the internet. Learn more
- Supporting the Coexist Foundation in developing a world-class centre of education and dialogue in London to improve understanding of the shared roots, tradition and values of Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Learn more
- Providing support and encouragement to individuals and groups countering extremism within their faiths. The Foundation will help with resources where needed and work with groups to publicise, develop and promote their initiatives.