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.
Geopolitical Shift: Corporate America's Growing Focus on Global Risk
Report
U.S. businesses operate in a world of evolving international policies and heightened geopolitical tension. Our analysis of corporate financial reports and earnings calls reveals accelerated concern.
High Stakes: A Framework for Geopolitical Risk Management
Report
This report provides a data-based assessment of how U.S. companies perceive geopolitical risk and articulates a recommended decision-making process and framework to manage such risk.
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 steps businesses can follow to implement well-coordinated contact tracing efforts.
The World Economic Forum estimates that 50 percent of all employees will need reskilling by 2025. And with nearly 10 million Americans currently unemployed, COVID-19 has accelerated the need for programs that help people upskill or reskill into new careers. At Google, we believe that economic opportunity should be available to everyone, and through our Grow with Google initiative, we've invested in building programs, products, and training to help create pathways to high-quality jobs.
The U.S. Chamber Foundation is pleased to announce a new sustainable plastics initiative to help us harness the full potential of plastics while ensuring we plan for their end-of-life management. This initiative will explore innovations across the plastics value chain, all the way from material science to end-of-life reuse and repurposing.
Today, while the unemployment rate has fallen to six percent, some 9.7 million Americans remain unemployed – roughly half of them women.
It’s clear the skill needs for the continuing adoption of more and more sophisticated technology across all industry sectors is paramount.
The steps to follow and resources to gather when setting up a successful COVID-19 vaccine clinic.
Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta President and Chief Executive Officer Raphael Bostic discusses engaging the public sector and the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta’s mandate to increase and improve economic mobility and resistance.
Volunteers are playing a critical role in the nation’s vaccine rollout. Check out the volunteer site for your state if you’d like to be part of something rewarding and important to our recovery from the pandemic.
