The GSD Foundation

Frustrated by the massive inaction around the climate change and sustainability imperitive, and inspired by the election of Senator Barack Obama to The President of The United States all on the back of a grass roots campaign - we have deciced to do a similar thing, and launch a global campaign to...

Get Stuff Done!

Founded and funded via Global Sustainability Challenge Ltd and with a prize fundraising competition we are setting up to act as a permenant endowment The Get Stuff Done Foundation is being set up as a UK charity.

The remit is to inspire, educate, fund important projects in the sustainability arena - and do whatever legally and ethically it takes to get stuff done.

The web site for The Get Stuff Done Foundation is coming soon. In the meantime, we have placed a little on its remit here.

Here is a little more on the ethical bedrock we are building GSC onto...

The Global Sustainability Challenge is set up as a hybrid business, with a 'for profit' business model embedded with a social and sustainable mission and charter.

The reason for this for profit status lies with the desire to mave maximum impact, motivate employees and stakeholders to the greatest extent possibe, and to gain significant support from the capital markets.

The reason we belive companies like Google, Microsoft, Ebay and Salesforce have the ability to do a great deal of good through foundations and the philanthropy of their founders, is that they created successfull business models that get investors excited, gain publicity and reach, and through showcasing examples of corporate social & environmental responsibility, they can significantly extend any reach of direct activity.

The vision of the Global Sustainability Challenge models that of other organisations who seek to do good at the same time as doing well. These companies include the Salesforce.com Google, Interface Corporation, and Sky. There are of course many others.

One, Salesforce.com was set up from the start with a 1:1:1 model, where 1% of founding equity was given over to the Salesforce Foundation, where 1% of employee time; 1% of product was also given over to the foundation.

We have ammended the Salesforce 1:1:1 model, to 10:15:20 + which in our case - 10 translates to 10 days per year per employee (where employees are encouraged to volunteer on work time, to work with their choice of social and sustainable enterprise); where 15% of equity in GSC Ltd is held by the foundation (see terms); where 20% of the returns made on investment funds set up by GSC Ltd will be distributed to the foundation (see terms); and + is where in addition, The Global Sustainability Challenge will use its publicity, technology and influence to raise separate philanthropic funds to be invested and used to further the aims and purposes of the of the Get Stuff Done foundation (see the remit to the right).