Compassionate Future Initiative
Hope for a world
without suffering
Advocating and mobilising for high-impact initiatives to reduce suffering across all sentient beings — in the near and distant future.
Our Vision
The Future Holds Hope for a World Without Suffering
To better understand suffering and wellbeing, we study the conceptual, biological, and psychosocial mechanisms underlying sentient experience.
On that basis, we identify, develop, prioritise, and advocate for ambitious initiatives with significant potential to prevent large amounts of future suffering — across all cause areas and timelines.
"Technologies, institutions, and social norms that protect the wellbeing of all sentient beings — resilient against corruption, and competitively advantageous over exploitative systems."
Our Mission
Three pillars of
compassionate action
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Advocate and mobilise
We advocate for high-impact interventions aimed at suffering prevention across cause areas, target groups, and long timelines — from near-term to centuries ahead.
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Build Community
We grow a thriving network of resourceful, compassionate individuals — diverse backgrounds united by a drive to build a better future for all sentient beings.
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Foster Networks
We connect adjacent communities, initiatives, and fields to propagate compassionate care, accelerate impact, and strengthen the broader movement.
Our Mission
Start Your Impact Journey With Us
These impact-oriented questions may help you reflect on how you could best contribute and reduce suffering — potentially along multiple cause areas and target groups
Feel free to contact us if you'd like to work through these questions together. We'd love to hear from you.
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Our Community
Community & Connection
Caring deeply about suffering can be challenging and at times isolating, as many choose to look away, to spare themselves the pain. That's why we want to foster this community. And hopefully, together, as a community, we will be able to apply effective and sustainable problem-solving methodology and reduce suffering not just in the near but also distant future.
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Our Research
Why to care about suffering the most
Understanding Suffering
Mechanisms and causes of suffering
Interventions Against Suffering
Concrete pathways to reduce harm
Compassionate Genomics
The frontier of biological intervention
Our Resources
Why to care about suffering the most
Brian Tomasik
On the seriousness of suffering
Lukas Gloor
The Case for Suffering-Focused Ethics
John Rawls
The Veil of Ignorance
Animal Ethics
On the relevance of sentience and antispecisiem see
Ole Martin Moen
The Ethics of Wild Animal Suffering
Our Community
Ready to begin your
impact journey?
Whether through collaboration, donation, or simply following the conversation — there are many ways to join the movement toward a compassionate future.