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Video: Abundant Futures / Live, “Investing in Futures”

MASS Design Group's Katie Swenson convenes a panel with expertise in philanthropy, including Wagner Founder and President Charlotte Wagner, to ask how bold investments can shift expectations, bend markets, and move policy toward a society where belonging is the norm, not the exception.

Watch the panel.

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Announcing Wagner Foundation 2025 Grantee Partners

Wagner Foundation is pleased to highlight the 129 organizations we proudly partnered with in 2025 in pursuit of healthier communities and a more just, vibrant world.

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Wagner Foundation Founder and President Charlotte Wagner and Deputy Director Caroline Easley visit Nyamirama Youth Center, Rwanda in 2019 with Toni Habinshuti, then-Deputy Executive Director of grantee partner Partners In Health Rwanda and speak with a healthcare worker at the Center. Photo: Denyse K. Uwera

20 Years On: What Time Has Taught Me

In honor of Wagner Foundation’s 20th anniversary, Founder and President Charlotte Wagner shares lessons from two decades of partnering to build healthier communities and a more just, vibrant world.

By Charlotte Wagner, Wagner Foundation