The Organizations

The World Health Organization

World Health Organization works with 194 Member States, across six regions, and from more than 150 offices, to achieve better health for everyone, everywhere. WHO’s Arts & Health Program looks at the research agenda around the health benefits of the arts, in everyday life as well as an instrument in the field.

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The WHO Foundation

The WHO Foundation is an independent grant-making foundation, based in Geneva, that sets out to protect the health and well-being of everyone in every part of the world, working alongside the World Health Organization and the global health community. It supports donors, scientists, experts, implementing partners, advocates, and more, from every country, in rapidly finding new and better solutions to the most pressing global health challenges of today and tomorrow.

The Foundation targets evidence-based initiatives that support WHO in delivering Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 3. To ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all). It is focused on reducing health risks, averting pandemics, better managing diseases and creating stronger health systems. It tackles these areas by building awareness and supporting its partners, including WHO, so that every life is invested in and the world ready for any health emergency that may arise.

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CULTRUNNERS

CULTURUNNERS produces cross-cultural campaigns, exhibitions, films and live events - promoting pluralism, peace-building and sustainable development through art. Launched at MIT in 2014, CULTURUNNERS' first project was a multi-year artists' road trip between the United States and the Middle East. Since then, it has prioritised artists-led projects which transform communities, societies and systems and inspire greater empathy across ideological and geographical borders.

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The Blessed Foundation was created to examine and promote art to the general public for debate on socially engaged art and practice by producing projects worldwide and curating a public program. to develop artistic practice by encouraging ambitious artworks and use of new formats; to promote diversity by supporting both established and under-represented artists with a range of perspectives; and to support artists by connecting them with a global network of creative professionals.

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World Council of Peoples for the United Nations (WCPUN)

World Council of Peoples for the United Nations (WCPUN) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to facilitating partnerships across sectors internationally that promote awareness and implementation of United Nations’ goals. WCPUN was founded in the aftermath of World War II to support the aims of the newly established United Nations. Since 1946, WCPUN has created public engagement Arts and Culture initiatives and partnerships aligned with UN objectives. Through publications, workshops, dialogues, other educational, outreach-oriented events, projects and programs, WCPUN creates alternative think spaces to enable visionary people and organizations of diverse disciplines and expertise to connect and collaborate. WCPUN is a non-governmental organization in association with the UN Department of Global Communications. In 2020, WCPUN and CULTURUNNERS launched The Future is Unwritten to engage the Arts & Culture sector in the UN75 conversation and the Decade of Action.

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