Fellow Explorers
Explore The Roddenberry Foundation’s collaborations to see how we invest in creative minds and bold ideas that advance optimistic futures.
Bold ideas go further together
The Roddenberry Foundation works with people and institutions willing to explore consequential questions, push beyond perceived limitations, and pursue ideas that can help realize more optimistic futures.
We are transdisciplinary, iterative, and full of hope in our philanthropy, embracing the same spirit of exploration and possibility that we champion in others.
Roddenberry Foundation collaborations
Our work with fellow explorers varies and evolves in form, scale, and substance. What unites it all? We approach every engagement as a shared opportunity to explore, discover, and learn together.
Exploration in action
Across disciplines and geographies, we work with visionaries to model and mobilize the kinds of optimistic efforts that make all the difference. Here are just a few of our recent grant recipients:
Gladstone Institutes
Redefining human health
For 15 years, researchers at Gladstone Institutes’ Roddenberry Stem Cell Center explores the possibilities of stem cell research and regenerative medicine while pioneering new pathways for disease treatment and prevention.
MIT Media Lab
Bringing art, science, engineering, and design into the same conversation.
The MIT Media Lab asks what the world could be, and builds to find out. For 40 years, it has brought different kinds of minds to questions no single discipline can answer alone.
XPRIZE
Turning bold imagination into breakthroughs
Mobilizes human ingenuity to tackle society’s most difficult challenges, driven by an unwavering belief in our collective capacity to overcome them.
Photo courtesy of NASA
Different paths. Shared direction.
There is no single path to discovery, no impassable boundary to possibility, and no limit to the questions worth asking.
What unites us is a shared spirit of exploration—a willingness to venture beyond the familiar, embrace uncertainty and difference, and discover new opportunities to flourish together.
Across every frontier, we learn from one another and pursue optimistic futures with the kinds of curiosity, courage, and resolve that make hope both earned and possible.