About the Foundation

The Henry George Foundation works to provide practical, socially just and necessary solutions to some of the major problems of the world in the 21st Century.

We look at old problems in new ways - we apply fresh thinking to what we see - and then we deliver new perspectives on what unhappily has become an old scene: the economic injustice in the world today.

We engage with opinion formers and policy-makers across the public, private and civil sectors. Our outreach work seeks to connect and enlighten - for example, building bridges with interested constituencies and seeding ideas in areas of public policy concern.

Our activities come under three broad headings  - research, education, and advocacy.

The implementation of the Henry George Foundation's approach to sharing the value of our common and natural resources, and paying in a different way than we do for our public services and infrastructure, while technically and politically simple to implement, would have far-reaching and profound beneficial consequences for society and the environment.

The Foundation's approach addresses the key issues of the 21st Century: equitable access to our common resources, a fair system of taxation, rural and urban land rights, the creative liberation of enterprise & development, the elimination of involuntary poverty & debt, the realising of environmental justice, the full empowering of communities and the proper realisation of public life, with its necessary public services and infrastructure, and the laying of the foundations of profound international trade justice.

The Henry George Foundation's approach is forged by a radical understanding of the nature of property, and the importance for us all of the common resources of the world.

The Henry George Foundation is a private charitable company limited by guarantee. The Foundation is an independent and apolitical organisation.

Working out of our office in London at Piccadilly, our Library in Mandeville Place and the homes, offices and colleges of our volunteer supporters we are engaged in a variety of projects and activities under the three broad headings of research, advocacy and education.

Through our work we inject fresh and intelligent thinking into a broad range of social policy agendas.  We seek to put forward practical and innovative solutions to seemingly intractable social problems. Our collaborations and partnerships engage and inspire the work of others putting people at the heart of economics.