• Themed “What if Love Became Infrastructure?”, AT ONE IMPACT WEEK 2026 | Singapore asks what our institutions, investments and communities could look like if care and coherence were built into the way they function and turns that question into practical action.
• Convened by TPC (Tsao Pao Chee) and 17 Foundation, the five-day gathering brings together a Forum and Festival: the Forum asks how we build the Well-being Economy; the Festival asks who we must become to build it.
• For the first time in Singapore, the week debuts AT ONE – all is well, a Well-being Festival that turns the theme from idea into lived experience.
• AT ONE IMPACT WEEK is organised as an architecture, four ecosystems of transformation and four enabling infrastructures that advance TPC’s six investment-focused pillars for the Wellbeing Economy, alongside flagship sessions, partner-led programmes and collaborative experiences.
• Taking place across 8–12 September 2026, AT ONE IMPACT WEEK is a five-day convening in Singapore, bringing together private bilateral and closed-door multilateral sessions alongside a three-day public-facing Well-being Economic Forum and Festival at Suntec Singapore Convention & Exhibition Centre from 9–11 September. The week features more than 450 speakers, from over 100 partner organisations offering north of 180 programmes and exploration sessions. It will also feature 25+ partner-led events with partners individually unique convenings running concurrent or within the AT ONE IMPACT WEEK.

SINGAPORE, Wednesday, 9 September 2026 — Climate instability, biodiversity loss and social fragmentation are not separate crises. They are symptoms of a deeper incoherence: an economy that rewards extraction over stewardship, and measures growth even as the foundations of life erode. AT ONE IMPACT WEEK 2026 | Singapore, brings together leaders, practitioners, organisations and communities across sectors to address these interconnected challenges and explore how a Well-being Economy can serve the flourishing of people and planet.

Convened by TPC (Tsao Pao Chee) and NO.17 Foundation, the five-day gathering runs from 8 to 12 September 2026, bringing together private bilateral and closed-door multilateral sessions alongside the public-facing Well-being Economic Forum and Festival at Suntec Singapore Convention & Exhibition Centre from 9–11 September. Under this year’s theme, “What if Love Became Infrastructure?”, AT ONE IMPACT WEEK asks what our institutions, investments and communities could look like if care, responsibility and coherence were built into the way we function, and how that intention can move from idea to action, and ultimately into the systems that shape economies and culture of how we live.

For TPC, the question is not simply what business should believe, but what business is prepared to do. The work reflected across AT ONE IMPACT WEEK, from leadership and human consciousness, to East–West exchange, to capital, nature and community, is grounded in the belief that business must step up to drive change, and that this requires new ways of leading, new bridges between perspectives, and new forms of collaboration.

Here, love means coherence, the alignment between how we see the world and how we act within it. Through dialogue, shared experience and practical collaboration, AT ONE IMPACT WEEK moves the Well-being Economy from belief into built reality, guided by the Earth Systems Agenda, the organising narrative that treats humanity, nature, economy and technology as one interconnected system.

“I can only be well if everything around me is well. Just as a house needs a structure, impact needs architecture. That is what we have designed: a theory of change, six impact investment pillars, and their integration to meet all 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Within the architecture, we build place-based ecosystems where the goals are prototyped in real-world situations so that people can see the vision, copy it, improve on it, or evolve from it. And it needs platforms. AT ONE IMPACT WEEK is one, holding space for people on the journey of life and coordinating with others to build a global partnership network for impact investing. Love is not a sentiment. It begins as intention and becomes care in action — and it must be built into infrastructure, so it can hold us all, codified into how capital flows, how decisions are made, and what endures. We must move from exploring themes to building living economic systems. Business must lead this, with government and philanthropy. Come as builders.” — Chavalit Frederick Tsao, Chairman, TPC (Tsao Pao Chee)

“This is a critical moment for global leadership in solving the climate crisis. As people around the world experience the worsening impacts of a warming planet, we need to reinvigorate ambition around climate solutions and rebuild our connections to the planet, to future generations, and to one another. The Climate Reality Project is in Singapore because it is a hub for action and collaboration. I am thrilled that our partnership with Chavalit Frederick Tsao from TPC and NO.17 Foundation means that the advocates and leaders we are training here in Singapore will be part of the broader network of family enterprises, investors, and institutions gathered for AT ONE IMPACT WEEK 2026. By pairing climate advocates with the stewards of the patient capital this transition requires, we can mobilize action at the scale this crisis demands. ” — Al Gore, Founder and Chairman, The Climate Reality Project

 

A Forum and a Festival

AT ONE IMPACT WEEK is deliberately built as two halves of one question. The Forum asks: how do we build the Well-being Economy? It convenes the dialogue, capital and coalitions required to redesign systems. The Festival, AT ONE – all is well asks the other half of the question: who must we become to build it?

Together, they follow TPC’s I-to-We pathway: from individual awareness, to relational responsibility, to institutional stewardship, to building for the wider system. The combination reflects a central belief behind the week: systemic change requires both new ways of thinking and leading, and new ways of working together. The Forum focuses on the systems; the Festival creates space to explore the human foundations needed to change them.

 

The architecture of a Well-being Economy

AT ONE IMPACT WEEK, is built as an architecture, not an agenda. Transformation becomes visible across four ecosystems and is enabled to scale through four infrastructures, together advancing TPC’s six investment-focused pillars for the Well-being Economy.

Four ecosystems of transformation

• Urban: reimagining cities as living systems
• Rural: regenerating landscapes and livelihoods
• Ocean: restoring the foundations of life
• Human Consciousness: transforming the inner foundations of leadership

The Human Consciousness ecosystem reflects the recognition that systems change begins with how leaders see, think and act. It connects to the wider work around new approaches to leadership and management, including the development of programmes, learning and knowledge designed to help leaders see beyond the immediate and lead with greater awareness of the systems around them.

 

Four infrastructures of enablement

• Capital: structuring capital to serve regeneration
• Energy & Nature: aligning economic activity with planetary systems
• Human Development: cultivating leadership and well-being
• Community & Culture: enabling stewardship and collaboration

Together, these infrastructures recognise that transformation cannot happen through capital alone. The partnerships, platforms, leadership, communities and conditions that enable capital and solutions to work together are equally important.

 

TPC’s six investment-focused pillars

These are the six investment-focused pillars through which TPC directs capital to advance the architecture of the Well-being Economy, given programmatic life across the week’s ecosystems and infrastructures:

• Well-being: learning, living and human development
• Climate & Nature: regenerative environmental systems
• Energy Transition: community-centred, low-carbon systems
• Food Systems: regenerative, nourishing and place-based models
• Circular Economy: converting waste to value
• Human Construct: sustainable industrialisation and the built environment

 

Building bridges across East and West

A central thread running through AT ONE IMPACT WEEK is the opportunity to bring East-West perspectives into greater dialogue, not as opposites, rather as complementary sources of knowledge and practice.

The week creates a platform for this exchange across business, leadership, capital, technology, culture and human development, reflecting a broader effort to build bridges between different systems of thought and ways of seeing the world. Through convenings such as China at Scale, alongside conversations on East–West relations, participants will explore how different experiences, capabilities, and traditions can be integrated into the development of the Well-being Economy.

A programme of dialogue, experience and action

AT ONE IMPACT WEEK 2026 features a multidisciplinary programme bringing together business, finance, government, philanthropy, science, climate, health, education, culture and civil society. The week will include:

• Main-stage plenaries and conversations
• Cross-sector roundtables and working sessions
• Partner-led programmes
• Private bilateral and closed-door multi-lateral dialogues
• Community and cultural experiences
• Experiential installations and showcases
• Leadership development and learning journeys
• Networking and collaboration sessions
• Announcements, launches and commitments

Each part of the programme is designed to connect ideas with action and encourage new forms of collaboration across sectors, disciplines and communities.

The breadth of the gathering is itself part of the proposition: no single organisation, sector or discipline can build a Well-being Economy alone. AT ONE IMPACT WEEK creates the space for these different forms of capital, expertise and experience to meet and work together.

 

Programme highlights

Over the week, leaders, practitioners, organisations and communities will bring together more than 180 programmes and experiences to explore interconnected challenges and opportunities across climate, ocean, nature, energy transition, cities, philanthropy, storytelling, systems change and human development. The programme includes plenaries, dialogues, masterclasses, training sessions, immersive experiences and learning journeys, creating opportunities for participants to exchange perspectives, build relationships and move from ideas towards action.

The programme brings together international and regional partners across different sectors, disciplines and forms of capital, reflecting the breadth of collaboration needed to build a Well-being Economy.

View the whole programme line-up for AT ONE IMPACT WEEK 2026.

The public programme will open with a plenary on East–West relations and close with a session bringing together the themes and commitments emerging across the week:

Opening Ceremony & Plenary: A New Generation of East–West Relations

The week opens with a programme exploring the evolving relationship between East and West and the opportunities for greater exchange, collaboration and shared understanding. The session brings together perspectives from across regions and sectors, setting the tone for a week focused on building bridges and creating new possibilities for a Well-being Economy.

Closing Ceremony & Plenary: When Love Becomes Infrastructure — From Inner Awareness to the Earth System Agenda

The week concludes by bringing together the themes explored, moving from inner awareness and individual responsibility towards collective action and the wider Earth system agenda, with a focus on carrying commitments and collaboration beyond the event. Key announcements and agreements will also be shared during the Closing Ceremony, marking a transition from dialogue to action.

 

Global and regional voices

The Opening Ceremony will be graced by Guest of Honour Ms Grace Fu Hai Yien, Minister for Sustainability and the Environment and the Minister-in-charge of Trade Relations, Singapore.

AT ONE IMPACT WEEK 2026 includes more than 450 speakers from over 100 organisations. Those anchoring the week’s plenary moments include:

• Chavalit Frederick Tsao, Chairman, TPC (Tsao Pao Chee)
• Al Gore, Former U.S. Vice President Founder and Chairman, The Climate Reality Project
• Peter Thomson, UN Secretary General’s Special Envoy for Ocean
• Sylvia Earle, President & Chairman, Mission Blue
• Tan Sri Dr Jemilah Mahmood, Executive Director, Sunway Centre for Planetary Health
• Stephen Badger, Board Member, Mars

View the whole speaker’s line-up for AT ONE IMPACT WEEK 2026.

Partners contributing to the wider week

AT ONE IMPACT WEEK 2026 brings together a wider network of organisations and communities contributing programmes, expertise and perspectives across the week.

AT ONE IMPACT WEEK is a convening for partnerships. Its Ecosystem Partners are National Geographic and the World Economic Forum. The Co-Creation Partner is Temasek Foundation. They are joined by the NO.17 Foundation Coalition partners and by more 100 partner organisations and contributors working across climate, ocean, nature, cities, philanthropy, storytelling, systems change and human development. A full list can be found HERE.

From conversation to collective action

AT ONE IMPACT WEEK is a platform for building collective action and co-creating social economic ecosystems for impact. We bring economic actors, leaders, and communities together to connect ideas, build relationships and identify opportunities for collaboration across sectors and disciplines.

The week creates space for participants to move from common understanding to shared purpose that drives practical action, connecting people, perspectives and resources around the challenges and opportunities of building a Well-being Economy.

The ambition is for the conversations and connections formed during the week to continue beyond September, through new collaborations, investment, initiatives and commitments to co-create the Well-being Economy.

Building a community beyond September

AT ONE IMPACT WEEK in Singapore is part of the transformation journey to a better future. It forms part of a wider effort to bring together capital, enterprise, philanthropy, knowledge and community around a shared mission: to serve the well-being of life and create wealth at the same time.

The work reflects a shift from ownership to stewardship, from asking “what do I own?” to asking “what am I here to enable?” For those with the resources, networks and patience to invest in long-term change, the opportunity is not simply to fund individual solutions, but to help create the conditions in which those solutions can connect, grow and endure.

NO.17 Foundation’s approach reflects this principle through its investment in convening, systems and collaboration, alongside direct philanthropic initiatives such as Restore Nature. The aim is to help create models that can move beyond individual projects and contribute to wider systems of change.

The relationships, ideas and commitments developed during the week will be carried forward through continued dialogue, collaboration and practical initiatives beyond September 2026.

“Empathy that lives only in a person is fragile. It moves with mood, tenure and market cycle. Infrastructure is what keeps working when goodwill runs out. So love, in our vocabulary, moves through three stages: it begins as intention, is expressed through action in how we lead, decide and take responsibility, and must ultimately be built into systems so it can scale, endure and outlast any individual. This is not love as a soft value. It is an organising principle for designing businesses and economies where the well-being of people, society and nature is inseparable from long-term prosperity.” — Sook Yee Tai, Chair, NO.17 Foundation

 

AT ONE — all is well

For the first time in Singapore, AT ONE IMPACT WEEK will also present AT ONE – all is well, a Wellbeing Festival that brings the theme “What if Love Became Infrastructure?” into lived experience.

Co-curated by OCTAVE and The Wolfpack, the Festival is rooted in the philosophy of OCTAVE Living. AT ONE is the practice; all is well is the possibility. The Festival explores the inner foundations of well-being and leadership through experiences that encourage participants to nurture, discover, practice and connect, moving from I → We → All Life.

Across the Festival, participants can engage with the Eight Living Habits: Breathing, Moving, Eating, Sleeping, Stillness, Worldview, Middleway and Celebration of Life, alongside curated experiences, conversations and practices designed to foster greater awareness, connection and collective flourishing.

The Festival offers another dimension of the week’s central proposition: that changing the systems around us also requires us to consider the people within them, and the ways we lead, relate and live.

For more information on AT ONE — all is well and the full programme, visit: https://events.humanitix.com/at-one-all-is-well-2026

 

Event information

AT ONE IMPACT WEEK 2026

• Dates: 8–12 September 2026
• Venue: Suntec Singapore Convention & Exhibition Centre
• Website: https://impactweek.com

AT ONE — all is well

• Dates: 9 – 11 September 2026
• Venue: Level 3, Suntec Singapore Convention & Exhibition Centre
• Website:
• https://events.humanitix.com/at-one-all-is-well-2026
• https://impactweek.com/#programmes

SINGAPORE, September 10, 2026 — ‘How to Live on Earth’, the feature documentary presented and narrated by Benedict Cumberbatch, will make its Southeast Asia premiere on 10 September 2026, screening to delegates as part of AT ONE IMPACT WEEK 2026 | Singapore, the global platform hosted by TPC (Tsao Pao Chee) and NO.17 Foundation. The film explores the relationship between people and nature, and how our relationship with the Earth shapes the way we live and thrive. It connects to the Rural and Human Consciousness ecosystems and builds Energy & Nature and Community & Culture infrastructure for the Well-being Economy.

Directed by Fredi Devas and produced by Devas and Jonnie Hughes for Open Planet Studios, in association with the Villars Institute Foundation and Silvania, the 96-minute film carries the tagline “a visionary feature documentary about how humans are learning to team up with nature to solve our biggest challenges.” It follows scientists, indigenous activists, farmers and economists working around the world to show what it looks like when people collaborate with, rather than against, the natural systems that sustain them, offering what its makers have called an optimistic vision of a future in which nature and humanity flourish together.

The film’s stories are anchored by three lead contributors. Xiye Bastida, a Mexican climate justice activist and co-founder of the Re-Earth Initiative, brings a youth-led perspective on organising and advocacy; Sam Kass, a former White House chef and senior policy advisor on nutrition who now works as a venture capital partner, focuses on the transformation of food systems; and Dan O’Neill, a field biologist, wildlife filmmaker and expedition leader, grounds the film in the connection between planetary health and human well-being.

Across these stories, the film makes visible the connections between human action and the systems that sustain life, from the food we grow and eat to the ecosystems we depend on. At its heart is a simple proposition: that when people work with nature, rather than against it, different futures become possible.

Together, their stories move across climate change, biodiversity loss, food security and the financial systems that shape how societies use land and resources, carried by cutting-edge cinematography from around the world under director of photography Stuart Dunn. Its original score is by Jacob Shea and Ho-Ling Tang, with a main theme composed by Hans Zimmer and Jacob Shea for Bleeding Fingers Music.

The film’s release is supported by a global impact campaign, delivered in collaboration with organisations including Conservation International, The Nature Conservancy, UNDP and the UNEP Finance Initiative, reflecting an approach that pairs storytelling with the research and delivery networks needed to move its subjects’ work forward. This approach aligns with the focus of AT ONE IMPACT WEEK 2026, which brings together leaders across philanthropy, enterprise and capital to explore how different forms of expertise and resources can work together to build a Well-being Economy.

The Singapore screening is in partnership with Mercuria and Standard Chartered, and forms part of AT ONE IMPACT WEEK’s programme tracks on Rural Ecosystem, Human Consciousness, and Community & Culture, connecting the film’s themes with the week’s broader exploration of what it takes to build a Well-being Economy. In 2026, AT ONE IMPACT WEEK is anchored by the question “What if love becomes infrastructure?”  a framing that the screening will bring to life by exploring how relationships between the film’s subjects and the land, water and communities they work alongside.

“The film explores the relationship between people and nature, and how our relationship with the Earth shapes the way we live and thrive. It is an expression of the interconnectedness of the Rural and Human Consciousness ecosystems and the Energy & Nature and Community & Culture infrastructure that together contribute to the Well-being Economy,” said Tai Sook Yee, Chair, NO.17 Foundation.

“By centring the film around personal stories – from scientists and Indigenous activists to farmers and economists – we reveal what it really means to protect and restore nature,” said Fredi Devas, Director of How to Live on Earth, has said of the film’s approach.

The screening follows the film’s world premiere on 22 June 2026 at Odeon Luxe Leicester Square in London, attended by Cumberbatch, coinciding with the start of London Climate Action Week, ahead of the film’s UK theatrical release on 26 June 2026. Since its premiere, the film has been named a finalist in the Onscreen Personality category of the 2026 Jackson Wild Awards and received a nomination in the Producer/Director category at the 2026 Wildscreen Panda Awards.

‘How to Live on Earth’ is set for a global YouTube premiere on 20 September 2026, accompanied by an exclusive premiere of an original end credit track by Grammy-winning artist Imogen Heap. The YouTube release will mark the next stage of the film’s rollout, making the documentary freely available to audiences worldwide.

This declaration reflects the ambition of AT ONE IMPACT WEEK 2026: to move from ideas to systems, and from individual efforts to the infrastructure and ecosystems that allow change to take root.

New East–West Place-Based Ecosystem Model connects place-based transformation across different contexts

SINGAPORE, September 2026 — TPC (Tsao Pao Chee) and Economics of Mutuality Foundation, as anchor funders, together with NO.17 Foundation, SecondMuse Capital and Mutual Value Labs as co-architects, today announced a new East-West Place-Based Ecosystem Model for nature restoration, shared prosperity and well-being. The model builds on the Collaboration Declaration made in Davos in January 2026 and the shared commitment to advance a Well-being Economy through place-based transformation.

The initiative brings together capital, enterprise, partnerships and convening to build the infrastructure needed to move from individual projects to a connected field of place-based transformation. A Platform will house shared methodologies, measurement systems, digital tools, investment architecture and learning that can be adapted across different places while remaining rooted in local contexts. This shared infrastructure is intended to connect the different parts of a system, enabling learning, capital and enterprise to work together rather than in isolation.

This work serves the Rural and Ocean ecosystems and builds Capital and Energy & Nature infrastructure for the Well-being Economy. The approach is grounded in the understanding that economic systems are ultimately shaped by relationships, between people, communities, businesses, capital and the natural world. By strengthening those connections and creating the conditions for people and organisations to act on what matters to the places they are part of, the platform seeks to build economies where well-being, regeneration and mutual value can reinforce one another.

“The work of building a Well-being Economy cannot be done from a distance. It has to be built in places, with the people, businesses and communities who are already shaping those economies. What we are creating is the infrastructure to connect these efforts, so that what is learned in one place can strengthen another, and so that capital and enterprise can become part of restoring the systems that sustain life,” said Sook Yee Tai, Chair, NO.17 Foundation.

“SecondMuse has spent the last 15 years redesigning how economies function for the people and places within them, with a conviction that capital itself can be redirected to serve regenerative ends rather than extract from them. The Restore Nature Discovery Phase is where we apply the most rigorous test yet to our approach, and where we believe the next model for systemic, place-based investing is taking shape,” shared Simon Baldwin, Senior Vice-President, Asia Pacific, SecondMuse and Asia Pacific lead, SecondMuse Capital. “What this work proves matters beyond any single location. It shows that capital can be organized around any place’s own economic system, generating returns and regeneration together in a way we believe can be learned from and carried beyond geographies.”

“Businesses do not operate apart from communities and nature, but depend on them. This initiative will help translate that interdependence into more mutual economic models in which financial performance and positive social and environmental outcomes reinforce one another over time. By aligning the incentives and capabilities of business, capital, government, and communities around the needs of each place, we can create value that is shared, sustained, and regenerative,” said Alastair Colin-Jones, Executive Director of Mutual Value Labs.

The Collaboration also marks the progression of the Restore Nature Discovery Phase, established in June 2026. The Discovery Phase is being developed across East Kalimantan, Simeulue and Central Sulawesi, with the work moving through diagnosis, design, deployment and launch through October 2028. NO.17 Foundation leads governance, landscape access and ecosystem mobilisation across Asia. SecondMuse leads the design and deployment of the investment pipeline on the ground, and Mutual Value Labs brings deep corporate engagement on strategic sourcing of commodities and mutual-value measurement from its work across the wider collaboration.

From Davos to real places

The Restore Nature Discovery Phase in Indonesia, is bringing the approach into three distinct landscapes: East Kalimantan, Simeulue and Central Sulawesi. The work is exploring how economic systems can be reshaped to create opportunities for communities while restoring the natural systems on which local economies depend.

In East Kalimantan, the partners are exploring the transformation of a 7,000-hectare palm oil concession into a diversified agroforestry system, with opportunities across agriculture, ecotourism and carbon. In Simeulue, Aceh, the work is connecting terrestrial and marine economies, while in Central Sulawesi, it is examining opportunities within an economy shaped by both nickel and smallholder agriculture.

With the development of a Platform to house shared infrastructure, the partners are bringing together the learning from each landscape to develop Economic Blueprints, identify investable enterprises and explore opportunities for outcomes-based financing with Sorenson Impact Institute. By bringing together the economic, social and ecological dimensions of each place, the work seeks to identify where targeted interventions can create wider system-level change. This will help connect place-based transformation across different contexts, while building the knowledge and investment architecture needed to take what works in one place and learn from it elsewhere.

Building the infrastructure for systemic transformation

A central principle of the Platform is that systemic transformation requires infrastructure. Without shared infrastructure, every place rebuilds the same tools, partners measure different things, and learning remains trapped within individual projects. The platform is therefore designed to build a common foundation that every participating place can draw from and contribute to.

The Platform will focus on five interconnected areas: common methodology; measurement, monitoring, reporting and verification and outcomes-based financing; technology and digital tools; investment architecture and governance; and learning, storytelling and field-building.

As anchor funders, TPC and Economics of Mutuality Foundation provide the funding commitments for the Platform, while NO.17 Foundation, Mutual Value Labs and SecondMuse, as co-architects, bring their respective expertise to deploy those commitments and build the Platform. SecondMuse Capital brings expertise in systemic investing, economic blueprinting, enterprise pipeline development and capital architecture, while Mutual Value Labs contributes its work on mutual value creation, methodology development, corporate engagement, learning journeys and field-building. NO.17 Foundation serves as the anchor steward of the Restore Nature work in Asia, while TPC brings its operating experience, business ecosystem, catalytic capital and convening capabilities.

An East-West bridge

The new platform connects work across Indonesia, the United States and the United Kingdom, bringing together different place-based initiatives through a shared approach to economic and ecosystem transformation.

In Indonesia, the work is focused on places where natural systems and local economies are closely connected. In the West, the model is being applied in established economies through work in Oregon and the United Kingdom, with the shared methodology adapted to local contexts, creating opportunities to exchange learning, approaches and investment opportunities across markets.

The partners will use this East–West network to strengthen the infrastructure supporting each place, connecting capital, enterprise, knowledge and partnerships while allowing local teams to develop solutions that reflect their own economic, social and ecological context.

The ambition is to build a Well-being Economy through place-based action: an economy in which people, communities, businesses and nature are understood as interconnected, and where creating value for one strengthens the conditions for others to thrive.

Opening the platform to new places and themes

The model will grow to include new places and themes, with the ocean and blue economy identified as the first area for future expansion. By building shared infrastructure across places, the platform will connect local anchors with the methodology, partnerships and capital needed to develop place-based pathways and enable partners to learn from one another and build new models together.

This reflects the broader ambition of AT ONE IMPACT WEEK 2026 | Singapore: to move from ideas to systems, from systems to integration, and from individual efforts to the relationships, infrastructure and ecosystems that allow a Well-being Economy to take root.

Singapore, September 11, 2026 — The Rockefeller Foundation and TPC (Tsao Pao Chee), together with NO.17 Foundation, today announced a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to explore a strategic collaboration to address  interconnected challenges across land, food, health and energy in Asia.

Announced during At ONE IMPACT Week 2026 in Singapore, the collaboration brings together these organizations with a shared commitment to exploring new ways of working across philanthropy, enterprise and capital to address complex challenges and create lasting impact across the region, grounded in the belief that love can be built into the infrastructure through which we create value and enable communities to thrive.

Across Asia, economic growth, climate change, food systems, health and energy are increasingly interconnected. Addressing these challenges requires approaches that can bring together different forms of expertise, capital and action, and connect solutions on the ground with the systems and markets needed to take them to scale.

“The greatest challenge in addressing interconnected issues like climate, food, and health is not a shortage of promising solutions. It is creating the conditions for those solutions to scale. Philanthropy can play a unique role in making that happen by supporting the alignment of capital, expertise, and institutions around a shared vision for impact. Our collaboration with TPC and No.17 is an effort to bring this to life – where philanthropy takes early risks, business helps drive scale, and government creates the enabling environment for lasting change. Together, we are building a platform that can accelerate progress across sectors and expand opportunity in Asia when we work collectively.” said Elizabeth Yee, Executive Vice President of Programs, The Rockefeller Foundation.

The collaboration reflects a shared intention to work across traditional boundaries, bringing together philanthropy and business, global and local institutions, and early-stage innovation and long-term scale, while recognizing that different challenges and opportunities require different approaches.

“Philanthropic capital has been generous and well-intended, and it is not a lack of conviction or capability. It is just that the capital that arrives does not stick or scale. We need to redirect capital to systems. Land, food, health and energy are interconnected. The question we need to ask ourselves is whether philanthropy, enterprise and investment can show up in the same place, at the same time, and stay long enough for impact to ground and sustain. We do not have all the answers, but we can co-create the possibilities together. This is what we are partnering with Rockefeller Foundation.” said Sook Yee Tai, Chair, NO.17 Foundation.

The partnership will focus on exploring opportunities across land, food, health and energy, drawing on the organizations’ respective experience, networks and capabilities. It will also seek to engage a broader ecosystem of partners, including governments, businesses, investors, philanthropies, technical organizations and communities, where collaboration can help advance shared goals.

The Rockefeller Foundation and TPC / NO.17 Foundation will continue working together to identify opportunities for collaboration and develop the relationships, evidence and approaches needed to translate shared ambition into practical action.

DAVOS, SWITZERLAND – January 19, 2025: In a compelling display of leadership, our Chairman, Chavalit Frederick Tsao, is leading an 11-member delegation at the World Economic Forum in Davos over the next five days. As a fourth-generation steward of TPC, he and the team are poised to engage in transformative dialogues addressing the most urgent challenges facing humanity today. They will tackle critical issues such as sustainability, globalisation, and the pivotal role of technology. This moment is not just an opportunity; it is a clarion call to action for businesses worldwide to take the helm in co-creating innovative solutions that enhance shared well-being and foster happiness through meaningful partnerships and collaborations.

This is not just a dialogue; it is a bold movement aimed at collective evolution. By championing collaboration over competition and drawing collective wisdom, we can shift paradigms and cultivate trust, sparking meaningful change. As Rainbow Warriors, we must lead with compassion, courage, and a deep sense of common humanity, embracing love as the ultimate antidote to our shared challenges.

These themes are central to a new book, “Impact Investing for Life Flourishing,” authored by Chavalit. It explores how we can align wealth with purpose by embracing collective well-being, unity, and consciousness, leading to a holistic transformation from “I to We.”

We are excited to embark on this journey as we co-create a sustainable future by transforming words into collective action and make a difference!