UNITED is a Swiss-based global platform for the mobilisation and stewardship of all forms of capital — for the benefit of humanity and the Earth. A place where people with vision find the leadership, capital and partnerships they need to change the world.
Humanity has entered one of the most consequential periods in its history. Artificial intelligence is transforming society at unprecedented speed. Global wealth creation has reached historic levels. Environmental challenges — the future of water among the most urgent of all — grow more pressing by the year.
Yet institutions, governments, businesses and communities are struggling to respond to growing complexity and fragmentation. As a consequence, people and planet are suffering.
The need is no longer for isolated and competing initiatives, nor for the accumulation of capital in ever fewer hands. The civilisations that flourished for centuries understood something we have largely forgotten: lasting prosperity is not built by holding resources, but by keeping them moving. They built the systems that kept water, knowledge, trust and wealth flowing — and treated the care of those systems as their highest work.
The need today is the same. UNITED has been created for this moment.
Lasting prosperity is not built by holding resources.
It is built by keeping them flowing.
Two threads run through everything UNITED builds.
Capital creates life when it moves and loses its power when it stands still. Flow is the principle beneath every part of what follows — the ten forms of capital, the funds, the Hubs that gather and release, the governance through which the whole circulates. Nothing UNITED holds is meant to stand still.
Capital does not organise itself. It is opened, tended and directed by people. UNITED forms and supports the leaders who can hold a vision and build the structures that carry it — and where leadership rises to meet the moment, capital follows.
Through collaboration, innovation, responsible leadership and strategic investment, UNITED empowers individuals, organisations, communities and nations to create measurable and lasting positive impact.
We envision a world where humanity and nature flourish together. A world where resources flow efficiently and responsibly, where every human and community has the opportunity to thrive, and where the collective wisdom and creativity of humanity are mobilised to protect and regenerate our shared planet.
We believe the future belongs not to isolated efforts, but to connected ecosystems of purpose, leadership and capital working together for the common good.
Lasting impact emerges when all forms of capital work together — when each one flows to where it creates the greatest value for people and planet. UNITED mobilises and connects ten.
Grants, investment and endowment moving to where it does most good.
Research, insight and hard-won knowledge, held in common.
Skill, time, courage and the will to act.
Tools and infrastructure built to serve rather than extract.
Trust and relationship — the channel every other capital travels down.
Imagination, design and the ability to see what is not yet there.
Heritage, story and meaning that make protection worth the effort.
Community, reciprocity and belonging.
Water, soil, forest and climate — the original infrastructure.
Purpose, wisdom and the deep why beneath the work.
Community circulates first — trust, care, connection.
Then capital, in all its forms, begins to flow.
Each fund complements and strengthens the others. Each initiative supports the wider mission. Each institution contributes to collective success. Every participant remains sovereign. Every participant becomes connected.
No initiative stands alone. Within UNITED, all are home.
Each fund is founder-led and sovereign. Each is strengthened by the whole.
The first flow, on which every other depends. Universal access to water infrastructure, protection of freshwater ecosystems, and sustainable water management.
Learn more →Created by Edouard Mondron
Family heritage, the resolution of conflict, intergenerational stewardship, and the transmission of values and wisdom.
Visit site →Led by Stuart Mackintosh
Advancing access to one’s own health data and healthcare equity through responsible technology and digital innovation.
Learn more →Created by Bijoya Banerjea
Women Justice Fund. Championing the rights, safety, leadership and empowerment of women and girls worldwide.
Learn more →Harnessing artificial intelligence and emerging technologies ethically and responsibly for humanity and the planet.
Learn more →Created by Kari Eik
An open digital twin platform harnessing AI to democratise urban planning, giving cities and communities the tools to model and de-risk their own futures.
Visit site →Created by Kari Eik
United Cities Foundation. Resilient, inclusive and regenerative cities through capacity building, cooperation and knowledge sharing.
Learn more →Supporting strategic hubs for conscious leadership development — places to connect, coordinate and build capacity across the network.
Explore the Hubs →Led by Hege Victoria Dybedalsbakk
Supporting young people and their unique potential through sport, tours and expeditions.
Learn more →Created by Sanela Lee
Community-led work supporting children and families through connection, healing and belonging.
Learn more →Led by Masaki Sugimoto
An annual gathering of global leaders exploring conscious leadership and collective stewardship, hosted in Japan.
Visit site →Every participant remains sovereign.
Every participant becomes connected.
Each Hub is a retreat and leadership centre in its own right — gathering leadership, wisdom, relationships and capital between gatherings, and releasing them wherever the network needs them most.
Global headquarters. Governance, strategy, partnerships and coordination.
Ålesund, on the Storfjord. Sustainability, environmental leadership, innovation and regenerative development.
Sedona. Indigenous wisdom, entrepreneurship, desert ecology and future-oriented leadership.
Cultural heritage, spiritual leadership, innovation and cooperation across Africa and the Middle East.
Technology, wisdom traditions, mindful stewardship and long-term thinking.
Additional Hubs will be established globally to ensure balanced representation and local empowerment.
It is measured not by what it commands, but by the health of the whole. Every review of our work begins with the questions that matter most: are communities stronger, are ecosystems healthier, is capital reaching those who need it?
Founder of UNITED. Former Managing Director of the SDG Impact Fund and architect of United Cities and OpenTwin, Kari has helped hundreds of cities worldwide secure the funding to realise the Sustainable Development Goals. She leads UNITED’s mission, partnerships and the mobilisation of capital across the ecosystem.
Co-founder of UNITED. Author of #Masterpiece and architect of the six-element pathway through which founder-led funds are formed. Alexander chairs the Leadership Group — the assembly of all fund leaders — and heads the development of the Global Unity Hubs.
The Executive Board serves as the principal governing body, chaired by a global finance leader. Twelve members, including the Chair.
The Office of the CEO advances the mission, develops partnerships, mobilises capital and nurtures the growth of the ecosystem.
The Advisory Leadership Group brings counsel, experience and perspective from across the network and beyond it.
Swiss integrity. Collective action. Intergenerational responsibility.
It is shaped by a small number of individuals who recognise a new possibility before it becomes obvious to the world.
The Founding Circle will provide the capital required to establish the foundation, activate the first ten pillar funds, launch the Global Unity Hubs, and build the operating architecture for a new global ecosystem of collaboration and impact.
Members of the Founding Circle are not merely supporters. They are co-creators of a new model for mobilising capital, leadership and collective action in service of humanity and the Earth — a legacy that extends beyond individual projects, organisations or generations.
The invitation is simple.
Help open the flow.