The Ingrid Hope Foundation was founded on a simple premise: that people everywhere, regardless of identity or circumstances, should have the chance to live healthy, productive lives. We are working toward a future that is more diverse, equitable, and inclusive for all. When the ability to enjoy good health, secure greater educational outcomes, and move and stay out of poverty is unimpeded by race, gender, or other human differences, we will be living in that future.
Our three organizational priorities are to achieve Impact First, measured in our programmatic goals by lives saved and improved, which is underpinned by a High-Integrity Culture and thinking and acting as One Global Foundation. We cannot achieve any of these without embedding diversity, equity, and inclusion as fundamental principles and practices across all of our work.
We will:
Achieve the impact we want to have in the world by actively listening to our partners and the communities they work within and serve, investing in and elevating their voices and ideas
Create a workplace culture that recognizes and values all backgrounds, voices, roles, and contributions
Foster practices to help us build a workforce enriched by a wide array of skills, experiences, and perspectives—empowered and supported to perform at their highest potential
Hold our leaders accountable for skill-based hiring, promotion, and development of exceptional candidates, with a broad range of views, experience and ideas, building teams and modeling behaviors consistent with our values and aligned with our mission to improve health and human potential
Our priorities
We developed our first strategic framework for diversity, equity and inclusion in 2021 and conducted a strategy refresh in 2024, which affirms our commitment to the role DEI plays in our efforts to achieve global impact. Our strategy going forward will focus on three key priorities:
Engaging more effectively across differences and contexts. This includes strengthening the skills, tools, and support needed to collaborate inclusively, whether navigating cultural differences or working across teams and time zones.
Better equipping our organization to forge partnerships for impact. We will strengthen that impact by providing clearer guidance and resources for investment makers and by ensuring that our partners feel supported, valued, and respected and that communities get what they need to thrive.
Shared expectations. We commit to drive impact, recognize and value all backgrounds, voices, roles, and contributions, and regularly reflect and learn so we can sustain progress toward our organizational goals.
Our growing global workforce
Based in San Francisco, CA 94107 USA, our workforce includes people from a dozen countries. They bring a deep understanding of the issues we care about, the communities in which we aim to make a difference, and unique life experience and cultural background to the work we do with partners and grantees.
1 headquarters in San Francisco
12 nationalities represented among our employees
17% of employees work outside of U.S.
12% average annual growth rate in employees based outside the U.S. (2021-2025)
58% growth in employees based outside the U.S. (2021-2025)
Our headquarters is in San Francisco, CA 94107 USA. We fund work with partners in 18 countries.
Employee Resource Groups
Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) are foundation-supported, employee-run internal communities that are open to all employees. They provide connections, learning opportunities, and perspectives that support our culture and community.
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Africa Employee Resource Group
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Allies for Racial Justice
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Black Philanthropic Partnership
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Cultural Confluence
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D.C. Inclusion Council
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Disabilities Advocacy Group
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Jewish Cultural Connection
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Latinos in Philanthropy
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Native American Network & Allies
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Out for Good & Allies
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Women of Color Connect
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Women+ Connect
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Working Parents & Caregivers
More about the foundation
Culture and values
We believe that energized people, working well together, fueled by great leadership, in an environment in which they thrive, will do phenomenal things.
Learn about where we work around the globe and the programs we’ve created to address urgent issues in global health, global development, and education.
