The world’s needs are vast. So is its greatest resource: young people with the will to change it. Since 2007 we have found those leaders and given their work room to grow.
For generations the Luce and Dudley families have given themselves to youth, education, and the slow work of social improvement, at home and around the world. This foundation carries that forward.
We do it through grants, centers, awards, and publications, and through the young people we choose to believe in early. The aim is simple. Lift the worst of what the world does to its young, and celebrate the best they are capable of, especially in the arts.
Humanitarian care, journalism, publishing. Different work, one conviction: a young life supported early can change the world it grows into.
A look at the young people, the schools, and the milestone the foundation and its family marked together in 2024.
The work runs on grants, centers, awards, and exchanges, each built to find young leaders early and help their work take hold.
Our flagship. We find emerging leaders driving real change, and stand behind them.
Regional homes for education, mentorship, and the daily work of raising leaders.
Young leaders crossing borders to learn from one another, and bring it home.
A fellowship for scholars who take the mission into their own communities.
In twenty-five years the work has grown into a family of institutions: a humanitarian nonprofit, a newsroom, a publishing house, each making the others stronger.
Ending orphanages by strengthening families, with education, healthcare, and care that keeps children where they belong.
News, culture, and editorial that connect the world, and report the good being done across it.
Books for young readers built on compassion, courage, stewardship, and hope. One hundred titles and counting.
From a family record reaching back to 1620 to a vision for 2050, one thread runs through it all: lifting the generation that comes next.
Four centuries of Luce and Dudley history, the roots the Family Archives now preserve.
The humanitarian work begins, ending orphanages by strengthening families.
The James Jay Dudley Luce Foundation is established to back young global leaders.
The newsletter begins, carrying the work to a widening circle of supporters.
A quarter century of service to young leaders, celebrated.
Project 2050: preserve the legacy, build the future, educate the next generation.
One plan for the next quarter century: preserve what has been built, grow what is working, and teach the generation that comes after us.
Archives, oral histories, and decades of records, digitized into one searchable home before they are lost.
Expand the digital ecosystem, put real governance in place, and make The Stewardship Report the voice of it all.
Grow Luce Publications into a library that teaches compassion, courage, stewardship, and global citizenship.
Your gift funds the grants, centers, awards, and exchanges behind every young leader we back. Give once, or give as you are able.
Our monthly letter on the people and programs advancing young global leadership. Subscribe, and follow the work as it grows.