Media entrepreneur and philanthropist Ted Turner founded the UN Foundation in 1998 because he believed the United Nations is indispensable to tackling humanity’s greatest challenges and driving global progress. The same belief guides us today.

The Foundation was created to work closely with the UN to mobilize the ideas, people, and resources it needs to help solve global problems at scale. We focus on issues at the heart of the Sustainable Development Goals, build novel innovations and partnerships across sectors to grow a diverse and durable constituency for collective action. Partnership, and the power of smart and strategic collaboration, is in our DNA. We believe everyone has a part to play, everyone’s voice should be heard, and everyone has a stake.