Mission:
To be consciously receptive to and in action for humanity's co-creating the best of all possible worlds for the utmost benefit of all.


What We’re Up To

The Robert G. Hemingway Foundation is a charitable family private foundation established for charitable purposes in the 1960’s. We support organizations that are bringing forth innovative, cutting-edge initiatives for the highest possible benefit of humanity. These include (but are not limited to) educational endeavors, emerging technologies, human and environmental health initiatives, disaster relief efforts and the appropriate stewardship of resources and information. The Foundation intends to provide critical bridge grants and financing to initiatives that are unable to obtain such financing through conventional means. We favor organizations that work within a global context to address and resolve, at a causal level, the most pressing challenges that currently face humanity. See “Co-creating”

No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.
- Albert Einstein

We hold a vision of a world that works for everyone and open ourselves to participate with others to co-create such a world. We have everything necessary to transform our world into a place that works for the highest benefit of all. There is already abundance. We have enough to feed, clothe and house every person on this planet. We have the knowledge and wisdom to address every ignorance and lack. Scarcity is an illusion - resolvable through collaboration, friendship and co-creation on a global scale. There are human and natural resources that remain in fixed and ineffective relationship through convention, habit, and limited thinking, i.e., our limitations are, a result of the level of consciousness that created them.

We call upon individuals and organizations to awaken out of self-imposed limitations and partial solutions. We are looking to collaborate with others who have a comprehensive vision of what is necessary for the world to work for the utmost benefit of all; individuals and organizations who share a systems approach to drawing forth and sustaining the abundant resources already present, in ways that function in service to the whole. We would like to participate within an “ecosystem” of organizations and individuals, each playing an integral part in consciously co-creating a resilient and dynamic whole that is in complete and harmonious alignment with the whole of life on our planet.

The Robert G. Hemingway Foundation has provided substantial support for ManyOne Networks, which is working in collaboration with a multitude of non-profit organizations to develop its web-based Digital Universe platform. This platform will allow educational information and data to be quickly understood experientially through visual imaging in a completely non-commercial setting, free from extraneous commercial influences. State-of-the-art, up-to-the-minute information highly relevant to improving the world through self-learning and cooperation will be provided at no charge (through the free Digital Universe internet browser) by non-profit experts who are the natural stewards of such information.

Both ManyOne’s and the Foundation’s intent is to support the creation and utilization of a groundbreaking information tool that helps non-profit organizations and individuals to deal with the rapidly accelerating volume of critical information available today.

The ManyOne platform also represents a stunning new 3D technological capacity for organizations like the Smithsonian Institution to display the huge number of specimens from the Museum of Natural History and others. Non-profits like Arctic Climate Impact Assessment can now benefit from having a multi-million dollar technological platform to use in bringing visual awareness to the rapid reduction of the icepack in the Arctic regions of the world and its associated impacts like increased sea levels. The Humane Society can have a way to track, list and display every animal for which it is helping to find a home. All of these capacities and more are available for non-profit stewards to freely provide their knowledge and information to the public at large. Since the ManyOne technology is a commercial free environment (like PBS for TV) the space and information provided can be guaranteed to be for the specific purpose of carrying forward the charitable intent of all of the associated non-profit portal partners.

The Foundation’s charitable intent is to provide the tools for any charitable organization or individual to assess, effectively manage and functionally utilize available information in ways never before available. The Foundation’s grants to the Community Foundation Silicon Valley and the National Council on Science and the Environment, as well as its loans to ManyOne, demonstrate its commitment to the educational and humanitarian purposes of non-profit stewards as they develop highly effective internet portals using the ManyOne platform. The ManyOne platform provides non-profit organizations with a means to collaborate among themselves and with others for the ultimate benefit of all.

The Foundation also supports Climate Future Group in raising awareness about market-driven solutions to global warming. CFG owns a royalty interest in the Climate Clean certification label, which is currently under development. The Climate Clean label proposes to offset the carbon footprint of any product, e.g., automobiles and clothing, through carbon offset trading on the Chicago Climate Exchange.


History of the Foundation

The funds with which the foundation was established came from First Idaho Bank, which survived the Great Depression and went on to thrive during the middle part of the twentieth century. The Foundation initially had a local focus under its founder, Robert G. Hemingway. Upon Robert’s death in 1968, direction of The Foundation was assumed by Robert’s daughter Susan Hemingway. Susan’s focus expanded to more regional projects, including homeless shelters, children’s programs and a decade-long relationship with Prosthetics Outreach Foundation (POF). POF manufactures and distributes state-of-the-art prosthetic limbs in the Third World, with a particular focus in Viet Nam. Upon Susan’s death in 2002, Susan’s son Craig assumed stewardship of the Foundation. Craig has shifted the focus of the Foundation to projects with global impact, as described in the Projects section of this website.


Biographies

Craig Caviezel is the sole member of the administrative committee for the Robert G. Hemingway Foundation. He assumed this responsibility from his mother Susan G. Hemingway upon her passing in 2002. From a young age Craig has been fascinated with the exploration and actualization of human potential. Through his participation in athletics, he maximized his own performance through conscious visualization, relaxation and moving meditation. He went on to explore maximizing performance in other areas of human endeavor, which led to the creation of several for-profit and non-profit businesses. Fatherhood and three boys removed him from the pursuit of these interests until recent events called him to take on the stewardship of the Foundation. Since becoming director, the Foundation has taken a radical shift in mission away from supporting primarily local and regional charities. The Foundation is currently focused on producing the optimum beneficial impact on humanity globally to the degree that the Foundation’s limited assets will allow. Besides the Foundation, Craig’s passions include raising his three sons with his partner Jen; rock climbing; and continuing to evolve his own consciousness so as to better be of service to the co-creation of the best of all possible worlds.

Ben Mates is a long-time student of holism, metaphysics, and spirituality. Ben has a BA in English from the University of Utah and a Legal Assistant Certificate from Westminster College in Salt Lake City. Ben’s work experience includes four years in Sao Paulo, Brazil as an English teacher, two years as a paralegal in a personal injury law firm, and nine years as a regulatory analyst in the interstate natural gas pipeline business. Ben lives in Salt Lake City, takes frequent bicycle rides into local canyons, enjoys skiing and hiking in the mountains around Salt Lake. He is a vegetarian and a vegetable gardener. Ben is a long-time member and organizer of food co-ops, food buying clubs and community-supported agriculture. Ben is married and has two teenage children. He has participated in the annual Bioneers Conference for the last five years.