We believe access to electricity is a fundamental human right. Approximately 798 million people globally live without electricity, and an additional 3 billion people leverage polluting fuels such as wood and biomass to cook and heat their homes. Today, less than 1/3 of global electricity generation is produced via renewable sources. We seek to provide clean, sustainable, renewable infrastructure to the millions of individuals globally living without adequate electricity.

According to the WHO, 1 in 3 people globally do not have access to safe drinking water. Roughly 2.2 billion people around the world do not have safely managed drinking water services, furthermore 4.2 billion people do not have access to sanitation services, and 3 billion people lack basic hand washing facilities.

Per the United Nations annual review of hunger and nutrition statistics approximately 8.9 percent of the global population is considered hungry. Stated differently, 1 in 10 or roughly 750 million people globally are exposed to severe levels of food insecurity. If recent trends continue, the number of people affected by hunger will surpass 840 million by 2030, or 9.8 percent of the global population.

According to the CDC, Public health is the science of protecting and improving the health of people and their communities by promoting healthy lifestyles, researching disease and injury prevention, and detecting, preventing, and responding to infectious diseases. Overall, public health is concerned with protecting the health of entire populations. This axiom is at the forefront of The Nirvana Foundation’s mission to improve the overall health and wellness of the communities we serve.

By 2050 the United Nations estimates that the global population will eclipse 9.7 billion inhabitants thus increasing the demand on our urban centers to provide access to water, food, transportation, energy, and telecommunications resources. The rapid population growth will create a series of spatial frictions in the world’s most populous cities, a complexity that can likely only be solved through the modernization of existing infrastructure.

The most complex challenge our society faces as it relates to social, economic, and gender inequality stems from failed policies, and more importantly the inability of average citizens to gain access to representatives within their own government. This culture of exclusion has resulted in many voices being silenced, limiting the ability of common citizens to influence the very policy decisions which shape their lives.

Our organization seeks to assess the overall health of complex economic systems. The societal impacts of capitalism, specifically the perpetuation of the military industrial complex has led to long-term systemic inefficiencies as it relates to inequality, growth, and the overall health of our global financial markets. The goal of the Nirvana Foundation through due diligence, fact finding, report writing, and policy reform advocacy is to triage, and repair some of the most at-risk components of our financial system.

“Many of the most serious human rights violations in the US occur in the realm of criminal justice. The criminal justice system is plagued with injustices like racial disparities, excessively harsh sentencing, and drug and immigration policies that improperly emphasize criminalization. As a result, the United States has the largest reported prison population in the world.” (Human Rights Watch)

Our organization seeks to conduct fact-finding initiatives, report writing, advocacy, media outreach, and litigation services/support related to human rights violations.

Digital life is augmenting human capacities and disrupting eons-old human activities. Code-driven systems have spread to more than half of the world’s inhabitants in ambient information and connectivity, offering previously unimagined opportunities and unprecedented threats. As emerging algorithm-driven AI continues to spread, will people be better off than they are today? Decision-making on key aspects of digital life is automatically ceded to code-driven, "black box" tools. People lack input and do not learn the context about how the tools work. They sacrifice independence, privacy and power over choice; they have no control over these processes. This effect will deepen as automated systems become more prevalent and complex.” (Pew Research Center)