Reborne Global Trust

Reborne Global Trust Evergreen Fund

VISION

Reborne Global Trust's vision is to develop an evergreen (self-sustaining) fund based on secured and donated assets to finance "seed money for equity" that results in the commercialization and deployment of sustainable and "disruptive" technologies and projects and corporations that will be viable global economic, humanitarian, social and environmental stewardship models that in replication may serve with positive effects for employment and improved quality of life in developed and emerging countries.

CORE VALUES

The Reborne Global Trust Evergreen Fund (RGT-EF) has a philosophy similar to the Unified Investment Strategy (UIS) recently adopted by the Center for Social Innovation, Graduate School of Business, Stanford University. This Creative Equilibrium model developed for organizations such as Reborne Global Trust focuses on creating financial, social, environmental and humanitarian values for measuring the success of a venture.

RGT-EF seeks Open Collaboration in defining and solving opportunities, as well as sharing the rewards and reinvesting the abundance while safeguarding IP and technology transfer.

RGT-EF considers Global Impact as part of its vision, not just technology changing but life enhancing and sometimes lifesaving impact. Solutions are sought that have macro and micro scale applications. Access to the technologies by the underserved and “have not” populations is an essential criteria for global impact. Companies that have been successful consistently for decades on a global scale such as IBM have adopted a Global Code of Ethics that serves as an example for the Reborne Global Trust Code of Conduct to establish, promote, administrate and be known for their Virtue and Integrity Based Ethics. The above mentioned Core Values will not stand the test of time without the binder of Virtue and Integrity Based Ethics.

The common match-point for RGT-EF partners, contributors and collaborators is the shared vision of Legacy Stewardship that lives beyond lifetime achievements and individual lifespans. The “Johnny Appleseed Confidential Concept” of planting seeds for orchards and forests we may never see is a Legacy Stewardship core value of RGT-EF.

FOCUS

The 4 areas of focus for the RGT-Evergreen Fund are currently the following:

Global Solutions for Energy

universal access to electricity and clean cooking fuels;
doubling the share of the world’s energy supplied by renewable sources from 18% to 36%, and
doubling the rate of improvement in energy efficiency.

Eighty-five countries have opted-in to this initiative, and many public, private and non-governmental actors are supporting its implementation.

Energy generation, transmission, storage and utilization of all forms of energy is now one of the major economic powers of all countries around the globe. Disruptive technologies are constantly fighting for their position in the marketplace. The risks are great but so are the potential rewards. One of the primary tasks of the RGT-Evergreen Fund is to search, identify, review and evaluate the disruptive, cutting edge energy technologies that could have global impact. The embryonic stage funding will select technologies that have passed the proof of concept and bench scale tests and are ready to move on to commercial prototype production. The established stage funding will select proven commercial prototypes that are ready for mass commercial production.

Reborne Global Trust Evergreen Fund supports the Global Solutions for Energy with a primary focus on unique, “disruptive”, and yet often simple embryonic technologies.

Global Solutions for Water

Access to safe water is measured by the number of people who have a reasonable means of getting an adequate amount of water that is safe for drinking, washing, and essential household activities, expressed as a percentage of the total population. It reflects the health of a country’s people and the country’s capacity to collect, clean, and distribute water to consumers.

Water is essential for life, yet more than 1.4 billion people in low- and middle-income countries and an additional 50 million people in high-income countries lack access to safe water for drinking, personal hygiene and domestic use. In addition, close to 2 billion people do not have access to adequate sanitation facilities.

Safe water includes treated surface water, as well as untreated but uncontaminated water from sources such as natural springs and sanitary wells. On average, a person needs about 20 liters of safe water each day to meet his or her metabolic, hygienic, and domestic needs. Without safe water, people cannot lead healthy, productive lives. For example, an estimated 900 million people suffer and approximately 2 million die from water-related diarrheal illnesses each year. Most, but not all, of these people live in low- and middle-income countries, and those at greatest risk are children and the elderly. Millions more people worldwide suffer from other water-related diseases, such as bilharzia, cholera, elephantiasis, and hookworm.

/Moreover, the rapid growth of cities throughout the world can strain the capacity of governments to provide adequate sanitary facilities, leaving inhabitants, especially the poor, to live amid unhealthy open sewage ditches. Untreated sewage also tends to contaminate the water reserves closest to the cities, forcing communities to pipe water from further and further away as cities expand. The competition for water use from residential, institutional, commercial, industrial, agricultural and recreational and ecosystem demands is placing a premium value on ingenuity and resourcefulness in being a good steward of water. Desalination, membrane distillation, reuse, recycling and resource recovery technologies are prime candidates for selection for RGT-EF.

Reborne Global Trust Evergreen Fund supports the Global Solutions for Water (Safe) with a primary focus on unique, “disruptive”, and yet often simple embryonic technologies.

Global Solutions for Life

Wellness Technologies for Food Production and Nutrition

Add global nutrition and food access to the RGT-EF area of focus to fight the epidemic of worldwide malnutrition. Today, twenty-five million children around the globe are malnourished due to food access issues. Malnutrition negatively effects proper physical and cognitive development. This leaves those with lesser access to education at an even higher vulnerability. Cognitive and physical development are essential for future success. Estimates are that more than 50 million children under the age of five suffer from chronic malnutrition. Each year, 3.5 million children die of malnutritionrelated causes.

Ironically however, obesity and under-nutrition affect billions of people and threaten a global health catastrophe. With the world’s population expected to reach nine billion by 2050 and food production stagnating, global food production will have to increase by an estimated 70 per cent to keep pace with increasing demand. As well, the food system will need to change dramatically to effectively deliver safer, more nutritious food to consumers.

Nearly one billion people, one out of six globally, lack access to adequate food and nutrition. By 2050, the global population will surpass nine billion people, and demand for agricultural products is expected to double.

In addition to increasing overall production, there is a growing focus on increasing the nutritional value of food produced and on understanding changing consumer food preferences as countries become more affluent.

Technology alone is not the answer, but can contribute to the solution. New disruptive technologies for food production, processing, storage, access and delivery and nutrition bio-availability may well be critical for meeting the human population needs in decades to come.

Wellness Technologies for Future Life Care

Recently, people have been paying more attention to the care of their health status. Patients’ frequent visit to hospitals for regular medical examination and consultation is inevitable. With the development of wearable and mobile healthcare technologies, healthcare cost and burden of frequent and inconvenient visits to the clinic can be alleviated and the quality of people's life can be enriched. Wellness technology is currently one of the hottest research topics in the area of smart and mobile device based new healthcare system focusing on the integration and cooperation of two fundamental disciplines (Information & Communication Technologies and Medical Sciences) that have a great impact on the current society. Continuous health status monitoring of individual’s physiological state and activity patterns, tracking of individual’s health-related activities, smart management of medical records, and care professionals activities are just some examples of system features.

The aim of wellness technology is to provide monitoring of individual’s physiological state, activity patterns, tracking of individual’s health-related activities, smart management of medical records, and care professionals activities with smart healthcare systems that would help users to strengthen their health promotion for future life care.

Potential wellness technologies include, but are not limited to:

Wearable and implantable sensors for healthcare
Wireless communications in wellness system
Activity and context recognition for wellness applications
Middleware for ubiquitous wellness system
Energy efficiency in health monitoring
Artificial intelligence and expert systems for healthcare
Human computer interaction, usability, and acceptability of wellness service
Home monitoring and ambient assisted applications for healthcare

Reborne Global Trust Evergreen Fund supports the Global Solutions for Life (Wellness) with a primary focus on unique, “disruptive”, and yet often simple embryonic technologies.

Global Solutions for Living

By 2030, 3 billion people, about 40% of the world's population, will need new housing and basic urban infrastructure and services . Breaking down the numbers translates to a current annual need for 14 million new houses and a conservative estimate of $420 billion in total investment needed. The urgency and magnitude of the need for affordable housing in the coming decades is clear.

The Housing Sector is a significant contributor to economic growth and has multiplier effects on the broader economy. Studies suggest that in the U.S., every dollar spent on housing generates as much as $1.60 in the wider economy.

Housing development creates jobs and supports economic inclusion. From direct to indirect jobs and skilled to unskilled jobs, the impact of housing on job creation is clear. In India, it is estimated that the impact of 2 million new affordable homes would be direct employment for 3 million people working in construction, indirect employment for 24 million people in linked industries and services (wood, steel, paint, electricity etc.), and a 2% growth in gross domestic product (GDP).

Despite these obvious benefits, there are still global constraints in building more affordable housing, both on the demand and supply side. Demand constraints are usually related to finance. Housing finance has very low penetration in emerging economies, typically less than 5% of the adult population has a loan to purchase housing, compared to 25-35% in U.S., Canada, and Western Europe. On the supply side, there are constraints related to land and property rights limiting the development of large scale affordable developments, and regulatory obstacles that present difficulties in registering land titles and/or outdated building codes and planning regulations.

However, there are technology breakthroughs for housing that both reduce the cost of housing while using more locally available materials, reducing energy consumption and providing healthier living environment.

Providing housing for 3 Billion people by 2030 is both a challenge and an opportunity. It is not an impossible feat, but one that can be overcome to develop technology systems that increase access to sustainable housing in the developing world, and create opportunities for affordable housing for all. Reborne Global Trust Evergreen Fund supports the Global Solution for Living (Housing) with a primary focus on unique, “disruptive”, and yet often simple embryonic technologies.

EVERGREEN FUNDING

Reborne Global Trust Evergreen Fund is not an Angel Investment Fund. It does not consider solicited proposals. The RGT Wisdom & Knowledge Council monitors the technologies in the four areas of focus by a combination of sophisticated data mining services and a network of legacy advisors. RGTEF may match identified technologies with compatible existing companies, combine several breakthrough technologies into viable licensed projects, or even be the catalyst for launching embryonic businesses.

The "seed money" for funding will not demand loan interest payments from the RGT-EF funded projects or companies but the principal must be scheduled to be paid back to RGT-EF as well as assigning a reasonable agreed percentage of equity and licensing rights to RGT-EF in order to continue the legacy growth and impact of the RGT-Evergreen Fund. ”.

Although RGT is a nonprofit, the intent is for the Trust development program to be self-sustaining and produce additional revenue to be able to support expansion of the "seed money for equity" program for replication on a global scale.