Emerging Issues

The challenges communities will grapple with in the future don’t typically overlap with the challenges they face right now. The world needs someone who’s looking around the corner to recognize, examine, and evaluate tomorrow’s solutions—today.
Geopolitical Shift: Corporate America's Growing Focus on Global Risk
Report
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
Report
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
Through our incubator pilots, we source, vet, and nurture cutting-edge solutions for the problems of tomorrow.
Working in concert with other Foundation programs and business partners, we develop theories of change and test new approaches to challenges across a spectrum of disciplines, including geopolitical risk, democracy and capitalism, and business-led solutions to wicked problems.
Latest Content
- In 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.The American Communities Project, based at Michigan State University, is a three-year effort to study the nation's fraying political, cultural, and socioeconomic fabric.Innovation is at the core of the U.S. Chamber Foundation’s mission. In honor of Innovation Day on February 16th, Kelsey Margey, manager of strategy and innovation, shares a summary of the corporate trends shaping the landscape in 2024.In our annual impact report, you will see how we are translating our bold new vision into action by organizing around proven capabilities in civics and democracy, disaster resilience, education, and workforce.The world is facing a "polycrisis" of interconnected challenges, including economic instability, geopolitical tensions, and extreme weather.American companies constitute unparalleled strategic assets. Through pioneering R&D and commercialization, the genius of U.S. enterprise drives global innovation. Strength abroad requires nurturing strength at home. Policymakers must recognize business of all sizes as fundamental to national security and, according to Edelman’s Trust Barometer, stewards of public trust.As the world pivots towards a future that demands adaptability and diverse skill sets, the U.S. Chamber Foundation’s annual Talent Forward summit emerges as a cornerstone event that embodies the pursuit of a more prepared, agile, and prosperous workforce.U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation President Carolyn Cawley issued the following statement today on the release of the 2022 NAEP U.S. history and civics results, also known as the Nation's Report Card.Today, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation announced the launch of the 2023 National Civics Bee, a national competition designed to inspire young Americans to become better informed about American democracy, to engage respectfully and constructively in the community, and to build greater trust in others and institutions.








