To give. To guard. To guide.
The whole of human giving has three dimensions — wealth, wellness and wisdom. Givingtide gives each an institutional home, so that generosity is directed, prevention is accountable and completed leadership continues to serve.
Three Instruments. One aim: peace for future generations.
Three human inheritances. Three new institutions.
Generosity unaimed
Giving is abundant but fragmented, without one shared proportional standard and direction.
Prevention unowned
Preventive practice exists across medicine, yet no single accountable medical discipline spans its whole field.
Wisdom untapped
Society too often treats completed leadership as spent rather than as a civic resource for those who follow.
Givingtide gathers what is scattered: generosity, prevention and wisdom — each into an institutional home.
The three dimensions are wider than the Instruments that serve them: wealth exceeds finance, wellness exceeds prevention, and wisdom exceeds completed leadership. Each Instrument takes up one part of a larger human inheritance.
Give what we have a common direction.
GIVA means Give 1% Alliance. It gathers nations, institutions and individuals around a disciplined annual financial standard: 1%, measured against the appropriate base for each class of membership, and directed to the world’s poorest tenth. Its particular object is extreme poverty.
- CEGCore Equity Giving — the whole of the 1% financial commitment, not the first instalment of it.
- CCGCross-Continental Giving — not less than 1% of a member’s annual giving directed across a continental boundary.
- U.P.The Universal Project — an invitation to support one civilisational undertaking at a time. Support is voluntary.
Three channels of one commitment — three uses of 1%, and not three separate 1%s. Cross-Continental Giving is a rule on how giving is allocated, not a further ask.
Give prevention a clinical home.
Preemptology is a medical discipline devoted to eliminating the preventable aspect of disease. Its specialist, the preemptologist, is a postgraduate-trained physician with direct clinical responsibility for prevention before established disease, and coordinating responsibility for the preventive care needed afterwards. It integrates, but does not displace, other medical professionals and specialties. Its particular object is preventable disease.
- PrimaryProtection — keeping disease from beginning at all.
- SecondaryInterception — finding and arresting it early.
- TertiaryRestoration — limiting its consequences and restoring health and dignity.
The Institute of Preemptology (Instop) is to be established as an independent institute headquartered in Enugu, Nigeria. Givingtide founds and funds it; it will govern itself thereafter. The planned Instop Complex is Givingtide’s Founding Universal Project until the Complex is established and its endowment complete. The founding ambition for 2027–2036 is capacity to train 10,000 preemptologists, with Preemptive Health Zones designed to serve approximately one million people per preemptologist. Zero Cervical Cancer will be the founding flagship and proof of concept.
Put completed leadership in the service of those who follow.
The Centory is a city’s emeriti council, gathering recognised eminence and completed leadership into a continuing civic vocation. A Centorian’s dignity is held for life. It is not a retirement club, not an entitlement that arrives with age, and not a ranking of human worth. Its particular object is avoidable suffering from other causes — violence, injustice, neglect and the misuse of authority.
- IIntergenerational Continuity — experience passed forward, and new understanding carried back.
- IIHonoured Longevity — the full human life honoured, and given continuing purpose.
- IIIThe Greatest for the Least — judgement, influence and leadership turned toward the most vulnerable.
One hundred Centorians is a ceiling, not a target. Wisdom in council is renewed across generations: no generation possesses it merely by being older.
Nine commitments. One aim.
Each Instrument carries three commitments. Together, the nine give structure to Givingtide’s threefold work for peace.
The nine are different forms of action — some financial, some clinical, some civic — and they are nine commitments of three Instruments, not nine institutions. All of them serve one aim: peace for future generations.
One aim. Three burdens we can lift.
The condition in which the means of a decent life are simply absent.
Illness and death we already know how to prevent, intercept or limit.
Harm from violence, injustice, neglect and the misuse of authority.
Wealth supplies the means. Wellness guards life. Wisdom places means and life in the service of those who follow.
Each Instrument carries a particular charge, but none is confined to it: all three participate in the whole. Peace here means more than the absence of war — it is human flourishing, and the removal of the conditions in which poverty, disease and violence take root.
The Tide Returns
A tide returns, and reaches further each time.
That is the whole of the name. A tide comes back: each cycle reaches people it did not reach before, while holding the ground already gained. The years 2027 to 2036 are the Decade of Establishment, when the three Instruments are brought into being and put to work.
We are not inventing generosity, healing or wisdom. We are organising them in the service of those who follow.