Education & Students
Help expand learning, educational technology, tutoring, and opportunity.
American Innovation & Opportunity Fund
Fundraise for American innovation.
You can do almost anything to help a good idea become real—from organizing a community challenge to bringing coworkers, friends, or family together.
Whatever you choose, the money you raise supports verified projects solving real problems and expanding opportunity in communities across America.
Why fundraise?
Good ideas need a way forward.
Some of America’s most important ideas begin with people who don’t have the resources to pursue them.
A teacher sees a better way to help students learn. A rural community needs expertise to solve a local infrastructure problem. A researcher has a promising approach to an overlooked disease. A student wants to protect an ecosystem in their hometown. A small organization knows exactly what its community needs but cannot afford the technology to build it.
Talent and good ideas are everywhere. Opportunity isn’t.
The American Innovation & Opportunity Fund helps close that gap by putting funding, expertise, technology, compute, equipment, and other resources behind promising public-benefit projects.
When you fundraise, you bring your own community into that work.
Choose your cause
Choose what you’re fighting for.
Direct your fundraiser toward an area that matters to you, or let AFAI apply the funds where they can have the greatest impact.
Health & Human Potential
Support projects using science and technology to improve health and people’s lives.
Rural America
Back locally led projects addressing challenges and opportunities in rural communities.
Environment & Resilience
Support solutions involving water, agriculture, conservation, energy, waste, and community resilience.
Accessibility & Independence
Help develop technologies and solutions that enable more people to participate fully in everyday life.
Science & Discovery
Give researchers and communities the resources to investigate important questions and test promising ideas.
Opportunity for All
Let AFAI direct the funds to high-impact projects where resources are most needed.
How it works
Turn your community’s energy into opportunity.
01
Start your fundraiser
Choose what you want to support. Set a goal, add a photo, and tell people why the cause matters to you. It only takes a few minutes.
02
Bring people together
Invite friends, family, classmates, coworkers, customers, or your community to participate. Every contribution helps give promising ideas the resources to move forward.
03
See what you helped make possible
Funds support eligible projects through the American Innovation & Opportunity Fund. We’ll share the work, the people behind it, and evidence of what the funding helped accomplish.
Start with what matters to you
Help a promising idea become real.
Tell us what you want to support and how you would like to bring people together.