The Arc Foundation

Advancing women’s leadership, furthering environmental, humanitarian, and development goals.

We believe in creating a world in which the benefits of peace, justice, well-being, and a healthy planet are available to all.

We work to advance, protect, and enrich the lives of people, communities, and ecosystems around the world.

We're driven by holistic perspective, working with the interdependence of all life.

The Arc Foundation is a grant-making organization, research, and innovation hub that advances women’s leadership in public office to further development, environmental, and humanitarian goals.

We know that when women are included in public office, countries have higher standards of living with positive developments in health, education, infrastructure, and the environment. Evidence shows that women have a greater to develop, implement, and uphold laws that further specific environmental, development, and humanitarian outcomes, and are central to securing and maintaining peace, and strengthening democracy.

The Covid19 Pandemic has provided a real-time opportunity to understand the critical importance and consequences of good leadership decisions in a high-stakes situation. Despite making up only seven percent of heads of state, the leaders who continue to handle the pandemic most successfully are predominantly women.

From New Zealand to Taiwan to Germany, the female leaders of these countries implemented clear, thorough, and well-executed shutdowns and social distance plans, flattened the curves, are continue to best control and prevent new cases.


Our Work

We advance women’s leadership across all branches and levels of public office. We do this in three distinction phases.

Pre-Public Office

The Path To Public Office​

While In Public Office

Identifying and preparing women for nomination as candidates for public office through training and capacity building.

Increasing the presence of women in all branches, and at all levels of public office through candidate training programs, and initiatives to raise public awareness of the benefits of electing women.

Ensuring that women have the knowledge, skills, and support necessary to pass, implement, and uphold legislation to deliver their agendas and drive the change that benefits people and the planet.

Justice

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Environment

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Public Health

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Gender Equity

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Democracy

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Where We Work

We are a global foundation that works in regions around the world where environmental, humanitarian, and development issues come together, and where we believe we can have the most impact.

How We Work

We are a global foundation that works in regions around the world where environmental, humanitarian, and development issues come together, and where we believe we can have the most impact.

How We Work

We are committed to the values of transparency, good governance, diversity, and a standard of excellence in everything in everything we do. ​



"The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice."

Doctor Martin Luther King, Jr

The Arc Foundation





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Where We Work

We work in regions around the world where developmental, humanitarian, and environmental issues come together, where we believe we can have the most impact.

Where We Work

We work in regions around the world where developmental, humanitarian, and environmental issues come together, where we believe we can have the most impact.

Where We Work

We work in regions around the world where developmental, humanitarian, and environmental issues come together, where we believe we can have the most impact.