Incubator
The world needs someone looking around the corner to recognize tomorrow’s solutions—today.
The Incubator is where the U.S. Chamber Foundation pilots bold ideas to tackle pressing challenges. We identify emerging issues, test innovative approaches, and help businesses and communities prepare for the future.
Innovation: Our Greatest Asset
Through our Innovation Model, we move ideas from concept to impact:
- Spot emerging challenges before they become crises
- Pilot bold solutions with partners across business, government, and communities
- Scale what works to create lasting change
Our focus areas are constantly changing, and we welcome ideas from partners. Sample topics include:
- Artificial Intelligence
- Nanotech
- Quantum Computing
- Pandemic Preparedness
- Bioterrorism and Biosecurity
- Misinformation
Spotlight
Geopolitical Shift: Corporate America's Growing Focus on Global Risk
U.S. businesses operate in a world of evolving international policies and heightened geopolitical tension. Our analysis of corporate financial reports and earnings calls reveals accelerated concern.
High Stakes: A Framework for Geopolitical Risk Management
This report provides a data-based assessment of how U.S. companies perceive geopolitical risk and articulates a recommended decision-making process and framework to manage such risk.
Programs
Innovation Scholars
Launched in 2023, our two-year, full-time program offers a unique early career experience through an intellectually stimulating environment at the intersection of business and government.
Judicial Fellowship Program
Launched in 2024, our two-week program offers an immersive professional exchange and residential learning opportunity for foreign judges and magistrates who are passionate about strengthening legal systems.
Insights
- Emerging Issues
Winning the Race for Quantum SupremacyIn recognition of World Quantum Day, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation, in partnership with the Boston Consulting Group, shares a high-level summary of significant findings from a war game conducted with U.S. public and private sector leaders.
By Kelsey Margey
- Emerging Issues
AI Judging AI: Top 4 AI Chatbots Evaluate Themselves
By Melissa Mendizabal
Legacy Program
The Civic Trust
The Civic Trust® is a nonpartisan educational initiative dedicated to enhancing civic literacy, skills, and participation across schools, workplaces, and communities. Through programs like the National Civics Bee®, we partner with state and local chambers, businesses, policymakers, and community leaders to offer dynamic opportunities.
Latest Content
- U.S. businesses operate in a world of evolving international policies and heightened geopolitical tension. Our analysis of corporate financial reports and earnings calls reveals accelerated concern.
- This report provides a data-based assessment of how U.S. companies perceive geopolitical risk and articulates a recommended decision-making process and framework to manage such risk.
- In our annual impact report, you’ll see not just what we’ve accomplished, but where we’re going—and how we’re shaping a stronger, more resilient future together.
- Presented in partnership with The Presidential Precinct, the Judicial Fellowship Program is a professional exchange and residential learning experience designed to strengthen the legal systems in foreign countries by building a cadre of judicial leaders from around the world.
- Innovation Scholar Moon Nguyen reflects on the transformative power of volunteerism and the journeys that inspire it.
- Failure, when viewed through the right lens, becomes a strategic asset. On this International Day for Failure, we reflect on how businesses have learned from setbacks, turning them into opportunities for growth and transformation.
- Twenty judges and magistrates from 13 countries arrive in the nation’s capital for intensive program focused on upholding the rule of law
- In early October, this initiative will bring together 20 judges and magistrates from 13 countries across 5 regions of the world to Washington, D.C., and Virginia for a rigorous two-week program focused on upholding the rule of law.
- Just like rules in a sport or board game, rule of law creates impartiality, predictability, and accountability. Together with the Presidential Precinct, we launched the Judicial Fellowship Program, a concerted effort to fight corruption and strengthen rule of law globally.
- Peer feedback is important, especially for our AI-powered colleagues. We had AI chatbots evaluate each other's responses to determine the capabilities and creative limits of the four most popular AI chatbots. By having the tools assess each other, we uncovered strengths, limits, and insights into their 'personalities,' biases, and self-awareness.
