Our Vision
We envision a world where all people have access to the physical, intellectual, social and economic opportunities to pursue a meaningful life.
Our Mission
We believe that increasing disparities in access to quality health care impedes the pursuit of these opportunities and threatens the stability of a global community.
Therefore, we exist to partner with individuals and organizations with innovative plans to reduce inequities and strengthen society through better health.
Our Values
Compassion
Equity
Justice
Integrity
Transparency
How We Work
We prioritize collaboration with local partners, including both governments and non-governmental organizations (NGOs), to leverage and augment existing resources in order to build capacity for the long-term. We do this by:
Partnering
We partner with nonprofit organizations in the domains of public health, with a focus on programs implementing health interventions for women and children.
Advocacy
Aid alone is insufficient to achieve true equity in health. We aim to use our experience and relationships to advocate for civic, social, institutional and legal changes to support the ideal of healthcare as a fundamental human right.
Community of Practice
We hope to create a community of practice where people working toward the same goals can share knowledge and create new networks of support.
about our Founder
Rebecca G. Kinney is a primary care physician and the Executive Director of The Beckon Foundation. Building on her clinical service to patients in urban, rural, and refugee clinic settings, Dr. Kinney’s recent work has focused on optimizing vaccine supply chains, integrating HIV and sexual and reproductive health for young women, and supporting innovative models of care delivery for last-mile communities in the global South. She endeavors to be a risk-tolerant funder of health systems and to change the paradigms for health financing to support a rights-based approach to health. Through an experiential and experimental model, Dr. Kinney’s current investments span geographies, partners, leadership structures, size and scale as an intentional strategy to better understand what works and why. She leverages her medical background as well as her experience with the private sector and venture philanthropy to bring context and credibility to her work and to serve as a bridge between patients, healthcare providers, and the systems that finance health.
Rebecca graduated Phi Beta Kappa with a degree in History and Literature from Harvard University. She has an MD from the Mount Sinai School of Medicine and completed residency and fellowship training at the Family Medicine Residency of Idaho. She holds an MSc in Global Health Policy from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. She lives with her husband and three children in Colorado.