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Pursuing big opportunities to improve the future.

About

The MoJo Philanthropic Fund, based in San Francisco, advances the joint philanthropic interests of Mo and John Pritzker. The foundation is optimistic, pragmatic, and solutions-oriented, and we seek to learn from the past in order to better the future. We are drawn to big opportunities and invest at the vanguard of human ingenuity and of creative expression. We center human need and connectedness in everything we do. The foundation gives out a small number of significant grants each year to teams with a track record of impact and often gets deeply involved in the causes we care about. We approach our work with humility, curiosity, and urgency, and look for collaboration and scale wherever possible.

Grantmaking

The foundation has two core program areas:

INNOVATION

The MoJo Philanthropic Fund invests in new ideas and solutions that offer significant promise at improving people’s lives and/or addressing complex challenges facing humanity.

IMAGINATION

The MoJo Philanthropic Fund invests in artistic expression, narrative development, and other creative projects that provoke the imagination and build human connection and empathy.

Selected Projects

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INPLORATION

MoJo is a seed funder of Inploration. Inploration uses the power of space and the cosmos to inspire care for the Earth and empathy for one another. At the intersection of art, science, education, futures literacy, and design, Inploration creates, curates, showcases, and engages communities in creative works by visionary thinkers and artists. Programming will include an art book compendium with the work of 100+ participants; a lunar mission control exhibit in collaboration with MIT Media Lab’s Space Exploration Institute; an LP album featuring music by Wilco, Esperanza Spalding, Suzanne Ciani, and others; and a multimedia and immersive exhibition that highlights hopeful futurist perspectives through meaningful space exploration.

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THE DUNN SCHOOL

MoJo has supported an innovative pilot project to create the Dunn School’s Center for Community, Belonging, and Purpose. The Center offers a holistic approach to education and social-emotional learning to foster a more inclusive, equitable, and connected campus environment. The experiential program and curriculum incorporate empathy, connection, and personal development into students’ daily lives, including through seminars, speaker series, podcasts, trusting and supportive social groups, and redesigned physical gathering spaces to facilitate togetherness, connection, and well-being. The goal of the Center is to inspire schools to adopt a similar approach to building thoughtful community by sharing data and through podcasts and webinars for professional development.

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CLEAN AIR TASK FORCE

MoJo supports Clean Air Task Force’s (CATF) global fusion program, which advances the commercialization and deployment of fusion as a key source of abundant clean energy. CATF’s fusion program brings together diverse experts and stakeholders from the public and private sectors to address critical gaps in the fusion ecosystem, including regulatory frameworks, supply chain development, workforce training, and public acceptance, while fostering global collaboration to accelerate deployment. As one of the first private funders to make a climate-focused philanthropic investment in fusion, MoJo is at the leading edge of building the field for fusion technology development.

Featured on the Whole Student Podcast â†’

Building Foundations: Governor JB Pritzker on Community, Belonging, and Purpose. In this episode of the Whole Student Podcast, hosts Mo Pritzker and Kal Balaven delve into the themes of community, belonging, and purpose with special guest, Illinois Governor JB Pritzker.

Team

mo pritzker john pritzker amy rabbino mike berkowitz rebecca altman maya kageyama katherine carraher toby cavalier

Contact Us

Please do not send unsolicited proposals.

info@mojofund.org