THE DOORWAY TO THE WELL-BEING ERA
THE DOORWAY TO THE WELL-BEING ERA
THE DOORWAY TO THE WELL-BEING ERA
AT ONE IMPACT WEEK 2O26,
SINGAPORE 8-12 SEPTEMBER
Join us to shape a new business era
NO.17 Foundation is the systems and capital stewardship platform of TPC — the nexus where capital (in all its forms), collaboration, and consciousness converge into structural change.
The world has capital. What it’s ready for is coherence.
This era has no shortage of funding, technology, or good intention. What it is ready for is a shift from systems organised around extraction to systems organised around regeneration — and the infrastructure that lets collective action cohere. That space, between ambition and architecture, is where NO.17 works.
NO.17 IS THE BRIDGE BETWEEN WORLDS.
The world is rich in ideas, ambition, and purpose. What draws them together is coherence, coordination, and cultural infrastructure — the bridge NO.17 was built to be.
NO.17 is a living nexus for capital, collaboration, and consciousness — where capital means not only financial resources but knowledge, relationships, culture, and spirit, and where learning binds them together. We are not a fund, a consultancy, or a think tank; we are the infrastructure behind systemic transformation.
We orchestrate the full spectrum — philanthropic, learning, bridging, catalytic, commercial, and institutional — to turn shared vision into systemic execution. We build trust-based architectures across sectors, generations, and geographies, and design the conditions for systemic action, beyond pilots and white papers.
Our belief is simple: because we can redefine capital and re-pattern how it flows, we can regenerate how systems behave.
FOUR WAYS WE WORK
We work as four spirals (concentric circles of a single system, from the inner core outward).
SPIRAL 1 — LEARNING
SPIRAL 2 — SYSTEMS DESIGN
SPIRAL 3 — CATALYTIC CAPITAL INFRASTRUCTURE
SPIRAL 4 — SYSTEMS BUILDING PLATFORM
We draw on the 120-year stewardship of TPC — the family enterprise behind NO.17 — which lets the wider ecosystem work at every stage of the capital continuum: from grants and venture philanthropy to catalytic tools, de-risking, commercial execution, industrial offtake, and institutional and sovereign capital, all within a single family ecosystem.
CONSCIOUSNESS IS THE
MOTHER OF CAPITAL
The quality of awareness behind our decisions determines what our capital builds — and this operating principle guides every structure we design.
We measure impact beyond financial returns alone, by tROI: transformative Return on Investment.
THREE COMMITMENTS THAT SHAPE HOW WE DEPLOY CAPITAL
RE-ORGANISE SYSTEMS
Restore harmony and dynamic movement between human activity and natural systems, as one interdependent living system.
REBUILD TRUST
Strengthen Trust — Deepen connection and collaboration by weaving the relational fabric between sectors, generations, and cultures, because capital compounds on trust.
RE-IMAGINE PROSPERITY
Restore purpose by redefining wealth through the lens of well-being and consciousness, not accumulation.
THREE COMMITMENTS THAT SHAPE HOW WE DEPLOY CAPITAL.
RE-ORGANISE SYSTEMS
Restore harmony and dynamic movement between human activity and natural systems, as one interdependent living system.
REBUILD TRUST
Strengthen Trust — Deepen connection and collaboration by weaving the relational fabric between sectors, generations, and cultures, because capital compounds on trust.
RE-IMAGINE PROSPERITY
Restore purpose by redefining wealth through the lens of well-being and consciousness, not accumulation.
THREE COMMITMENTS THAT SHAPE HOW WE DEPLOY CAPITAL.
RE-ORGANISE SYSTEMS
Restore harmony and dynamic movement between human activity and natural systems, as one interdependent living system.
REBUILD TRUST
Strengthen Trust — Deepen connection and collaboration by weaving the relational fabric between sectors, generations, and cultures, because capital compounds on trust.
RE-IMAGINE PROSPERITY
Restore purpose by redefining wealth through the lens of well-being and consciousness, not accumulation.
WHY 17?
We carry the spirit behind one of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals — Goal 17. Goals 1 to 16 come alive through partnership. SDG 17 calls for collaboration across governments, business, philanthropy, and civil society to enable every other goal.
And real partnership asks for more than coordination: it asks for shared consciousness, shared infrastructure, and shared language — a cultural operating system that turns aligned intent into coherent action. That is what NO.17 exists to build.
THE ARCHITECTURE OF THE WELL-BEING ECONOMY — FROM CONCEPT TO SYSTEMIC INFRASTRUCTURE
Where thriving and flourishing communities are built — in catalytic sandboxes.
Around the world, communities are ready to move beyond brittle infrastructure and outdated economic models toward living, regenerative systems. At NO.17 we co-create regenerative living systems that bring together science, capital, policy, resources, and community stewardship. We are building living ecosystems of transformation, enabled by shared infrastructures. Together they form the working model of a Well-being Economy: where capital regenerates ecosystems, energy systems restore nature, education cultivates conscious leadership, and communities collaborate in stewardship.
URBAN ECOSYSTEMS —
REIMAGINING CITIES AS LIVING SYSTEMS
RURAL ECOSYSTEMS —
REGENERATING LANDSCAPES AND LIVELIHOODS
OCEAN ECOSYSTEMS —
RESTORING THE FOUNDATIONS OF LIFE
HUMAN CONSCIOUSNESS ECOSYSTEMS —
TRANSFORMING THE INNER FOUNDATIONS OF LEADERSHIP
CAPITAL INFRASTRUCTURE —
STRUCTURING CAPITAL TO SERVE REGENERATION
ENERGY & NATURE INFRASTRUCTURE —
ALIGNING ECONOMIC ACTIVITY WITH PLANETARY SYSTEMS
HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INFRASTRUCTURE —
CULTIVATING LEADERSHIP AND WELL-BEING
COMMUNITY & CULTURE INFRASTRUCTURE —
ENABLING STEWARDSHIP & COLLABORATION
OUR COLLABORATIVE FIELD
We work with family businesses, family principals and family offices, development finance institutions, philanthropic institutions, government-linked platforms, academic institutes, purpose-led companies, and systemic coalitions. Our founding coalition includes OceanX, Philanthropy Asia Alliance, Catalyst Now, Climate KIC, Global Citizen, GAEA by the World Economic Forum, Family Business Network, Steward Leadership Institute, the Global Impact Investing Network, Re:wild, National University of Singapore (NUS), UNGC PRME, Temasek Foundation, and more.
Together, we are advancing a new global architecture of regeneration.
AN INVITATION TO CO-CREATE
If you are building the architectures for a regenerative, well-being-centred future, we welcome the opportunity to explore what we can steward together. We view our partners and collaborators as our journeymates towards the flourishing of all life, and together, we can unlock an abundance of resources to achieve the United Nations 17 Sustainable Development Goals.
NO.17 STORIES
Announcements, partnership updates, reports and reflections. The official voice of NO.17.
PARTNERSHIPS
Open-source frameworks, tools, and learning documents.
COMMUNITY VOICES
Op-eds, blog posts, and reflections written by our community — including IMPACT WEEK leaders, coalition partners, architects of change.
