Partners
Advancing Flourishing Together
Advancing human flourishing requires collaboration. No single institution can fully address the many forces that shape well-being across families, communities, education, and work. Philanthropic partnerships make this work possible. Support from foundations and individual donors allows the Human Flourishing Program to pursue ambitious research and translate evidence into initiatives that strengthen the institutions where flourishing begins. Together with our partners, we are expanding the science of flourishing and applying it to help individuals and communities thrive around the world.
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Flourishing Corporate Supporters
If your organization is interested in supporting our work by joining the Flourishing Corporate Supporters Program, please contact Glen Comiso at gcomiso@fas.harvard.edu for more information.
Research Partners
Gallup & Baylor Institute for Studies of Religion
We have partnered with Gallup and the Baylor Institute for Studies of Religion on the Global Flourishing Study. The study surveys over 200,000 individuals across 22 geographically and culturally diverse countries, representing more than two-thirds of the world’s population. With nationally representative samples in each country and five waves of annual longitudinal panel data collection, the study seeks to better understand the determinants of flourishing worldwide.
Aetna Inc. & SHINE
We have collaborated with Sustainability and Health Initiative for NetPositive Enterprise (SHINE) at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health on the development of longitudinal work and well-being surveys to promote flourishing in the workplace with various business partners using our flourishing metrics. We also collaborated with SHINE and Aetna Inc. on the development of Aetna’s well-being assessment.
Executive Networks, Inc.
We are partnering with Executive Networks, Inc., the leading provider of peer knowledge exchange and business intelligence networks for HR executives in Global 1000 companies, on its Back2Better Research Initiative. The initiative examined how large global companies are adapting to major shifts in business, work, and workforce strategy, including the evolving economy, the organization of the future, leadership, workplace design, and the changing needs of workers. As part of this effort, we have collected flourishing assessment data from random samples of employees across Global 1000 companies to create a global normative database of responses.
Barna Group & Gloo
We are collaborating with Barna Group and the data analytics firm Gloo on assessments of flourishing and spiritual well-being among clergy and churches nationwide.
Columbus Foundation
We are collaborating with the Columbus Foundation on assessing and improving community well-being at the city-wide level using our community well-being metrics.
Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture at the University of Virginia
We are collaborating with the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture at University of Virginia on empirical studies concerning the formation of character among secondary school students.
Lee Kum Sheung Center for Health and Happiness at Harvard University
We are collaborating with the Lee Kum Sheung Center for Health and Happiness at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health on the measurement of well-being and on measurement approaches to hope and optimism, and are together publishing a book on the measurement of well-being.
McHugh Program for Human Flourishing at Johns Hopkins Medical School
We are collaborating with the McHugh Program for Human Flourishing at Johns Hopkins Medical School on using our flourishing metrics to enhance the flourishing of patients, students, residents, and clinicians within medicine.
Initiative for Health, Religion and Spirituality at Harvard University
We are collaborating with the Initiative for Health, Religion and Spirituality at Harvard University on research on the role of religion and spirituality within medicine and public health, and have co-hosted a number of events at Harvard on this topic.
Other Partnerships
Various other research or flourishing promotion partnerships are in various stages of discussion and development including possible projects with Erickson Living, the Benson-Henry Institute for Mind Body Medicine, the Consortium for Human Flourishing at Saint Louis University, the Teacher Education for Flourishing Collaborative at Notre Dame of Maryland University, Humanity 2.0, and Research Schools International.