Bonds of Union aims to serve as the innovation engine to confront persistent

challenges facing the health and continued prosperity of our democratic republic. We develop, incubate, and implement bold ideas that yield meaningful social benefit in vulnerable communities and disadvantaged regions across the country. Bonds of Union is working to build a national aR&D infrastructure that leverages higher education institutions across different regions of the U.S. Each of Bonds of Union’s regional offices will be focused on a narrow, well-defined set of challenges facing the health and prosperity of our country. BoU identifies the best and the brightest to dedicate their intellectual energy to solve an important national challenge. Teams are comprised of leaders from for-profit, nonprofit, and government entities who dedicate expertise, knowledge, and know-how to support specific projects. Students from partnering higher education institutions also participate alongside BoU’s expert, cross-sector teams as a core component of theiracademic work. Faculty from partnering universities and from across the country collaborate with our team across the entire spectrum of BoU’s R&D life cycle.

Bonds of Union’s national strategy develops higher education partners across nine regions. Within a given region, we will have university partners that are central to how BoU executes its R&D efforts. Here is how it works: