You are invited to become a member of The Global Friends, a consortium of preeminent Chinese and American philanthropists who are leading the effort to address climate change.

Together our members fund The Global Friends Prizes, three annual awards totaling US$1.5 million made to organizations in Greater China and the United States whose innovative ideas have captured the public imagination in such a way as has prompted wide scale individual reductions in carbon emissions.

Why join The Global Friends? Membership represents an opportunity take your place among a highly select peer group of philanthropic thought leaders who together form the vanguard of climate philanthropy. It is an opportunity to turn a passion into positive action even as you help develop the young field of climate philanthropy. But above all, to become a member of The Global Friends is to place your philanthropy at the forefront of a global conversation that will define human society into the foreseeable future