We're building a new kind of foundation, one that gives people the education, mentorship, and resources to build businesses, careers, and futures, wherever in the world they live.
For too many capable, motivated people, opportunity ends where their family's resources or their geography ends. We're building Global Opportunity Foundation to be the institution that bridges that gap, through serious education, real mentorship, and the small amounts of capital that change trajectories.
Our work is concentrated on three areas where we believe a new foundation can have the most measurable, durable impact.
Free, practical training for first-time founders, from validating an idea to running a real business that supports a family.
See programs →Pairing experienced operators with people building their first business or transitioning careers. One conversation can save a decade.
Mentor with us →Small amounts of capital, between $250 and $25,000, placed precisely where they remove a specific barrier.
Explore grants →Around the world there are millions of people with the work ethic, the ideas, and the responsibility to lift their families and communities. What they're missing is access to education they can trust, mentors who've walked the road, and modest capital at the right moment. We're building the institution that bridges that gap.
This is not a short-term initiative. We are building an institution designed to operate at scale for decades.
Every dollar accounted for. Every governance policy public. Every outcome measured and reported.
The people we serve deserve world-class programs. We don't strip down what works because the audience is underserved.
Headquartered in the United States, designed for international reach. Our first international chapters launch in 2027.
As a new foundation, we're building intentionally, designing programs, recruiting mentors, and securing partners before launch. Sign up to be the first to know when each opens.
A 12-week program taking first-time founders from idea to first revenue. Inaugural cohort launching Fall 2026.
Building our founding mentor cohort, experienced operators willing to give 1-4 hours a month to a first-time founder.
$250–$5,000 microgrants that remove a specific barrier, tools, certifications, prototype costs. Launching Q4 2026.
Career-ready certifications and placement support for adults transitioning into new industries. Partner development underway.
I founded Global Opportunity Foundation because I have seen, again and again, that the gap between people and opportunity is rarely talent. It is access, to knowledge, to people who have done it, to the small amounts of capital that change everything.
We are starting small, deliberately. We are recruiting mentors, designing programs, and securing partners. By the end of our first three years, we intend to be one of the most consequential new educational foundations in the country.
Read the full story →A new foundation runs on early believers, donors, sponsors, mentors, and partners who choose to stand with the mission before it has every credential a mature institution will eventually have.
Underwrite an entire program, your name on every cohort, in every announcement.
Sponsor a program →Give an hour a month. Match with a founder or learner. Watch what an hour can do.
Become a mentor →Universities, employers, community organizations, partner with us on programs.
Explore partnership →One email a month, program launches, application deadlines, mentor opportunities, and the occasional story from someone we serve. Unsubscribe in one click.