OUR FOUNDATION
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RandomGood Foundation makes grants to people and organizations that are also "radically hopeful", even in the most unlikely places.
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We support grants that help give individuals and communities new skills, support education, and boost local economies.
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RandomGood Foundation also supports storytelling projects that convey important messages, regardless of potential commercial value or audience size.
RandomGood Foundation
Board Members
Randy Gebhardt
After a 30 year business career, Randy created RandomGood with the vision of improving quality of life and environmental conservation around the world, sparked by his passion as a wildlife photographer. Before launching RandomGood, Randy was an entrepreneur and consumer behavior expert. He co-founded Quantum Health, a Coordinated Health/Care company that uses behavioral science to help patients navigate the healthcare system. Randy spent 18 years as an international business strategy consultant and has co-authored two university textbooks on consumer behavior and marketing.
Christopher Gebhardt
Christopher is a leader in using storytelling to drive social impact, applying a strategic framework he developed at his impact agency/consultancy Stir and while serving as Participant Media's EVP for digital, brand, and business development. At Participant, he led the creation of digital communities and created impact agency/consultancy Tag, which had clients Disney, Intel, American Express, MacArthur Foundation, and Gates Foundation. Prior to Participant, he was a pioneer in branded entertainment at Pepsi, Ogilvy-where he was the head of emerging technology and innovation—and as co-founder of Integrated Entertainment Partners. He was also a consultant at PriceWaterhouseCoopers, and has an MBA from Northwestern’s Kellogg School. He is an Edmund Hillary Fellow and a fellow of the RSA. He teaches at UCLA’s Anderson School and served as Chair of the Ad Council Issue Advisory Board.
Angus Fraser
Angus is an ecologist with over 20 years of international experience leading and delivering multidisciplinary environmental management projects across culturally and ecologically diverse landscapes. Originally from Papua New Guinea, Angus has worked in Africa, the Middle East, Asia, and Australasia. He is passionate about environmental stewardship and the complexities associated with achieving conservation outcomes through the lenses of traditional owners, environmental managers, project sponsors, regulatory agencies, and other key stakeholders. As a photographer, Angus strives to capture the mood and character of people, habitats, and wildlife by exploring their relationships through imagery.
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Peter J. Hudson
Peter is the Former Director of the Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences and Willaman Professor of Biology at Pennsylvania State University. He is an internationally recognized research biologist, Fellow of the Royal Society, and member of the National Academy of Sciences. Peter’s love of biology, wildlife, and wildlife photography started at a young age. His research focuses on the ecology of wildlife diseases, especially those transmissible to humans. His research group uses a mixture of fieldwork, laboratory studies, and mathematical modeling to explore disease dynamics. Peter’s work has implications for the control of wildlife diseases and emerging zoonotic spillovers into the human population.
RANDOMGOOD FOUNDATION PROJECTS
A suspenseful look at the lengths people will go to gain freedom, Beyond Utopia follows various individuals as they attempt to flee North Korea, one of the most oppressive places on Earth, a land they grew up believing was a paradise.
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Remaining Native is a coming-of-age documentary told from the perspective of Ku Stevens, a 17-year-old Native American runner, struggling to navigate his dream of becoming a collegiate athlete as the memory of his great grandfather's escape from an Indian boarding school begins to connect past, present, and future.​​​​​​​
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A thirteen-year-old aspiring journalist investigates his father’s mysterious murder within the boundaries of one of Kenya’s largest wildlife conservancies. As a ravaging drought encroaches, his quest to find the killer shifts and an activist is born as the collateral damage of a warming world is revealed.
A timeless story intimately told through the voices of warriors and elders during their emotional rite of passage in 2022. ‘Maasai Eunoto’ follows the vanishing warrior passage to elder-hood revealing the hidden past & present of one of Africa’s most important, cultural initiation ceremonies.
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This riveting documentary chronicles the monumental task of curing cancer, as seen through the harrowing experiences of one young girl, her family, and a doctor on a mission.​​
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In this 7-part podcast series, we investigate the race to unlock age reversal and immortality in humans, new tools that can re-engineer entire species of animals and plants in nature, the inevitability of bioterrorists creating synthetic viruses, an underground movement of do-it-yourself biohackers who are setting up labs in their garages, how pop culture has informed the genomic revolution, and much more.
Mara Trails is an ecotourism and conservation organization that is committed to build awareness on the importance of conservation and to reconnect people with nature through the medium of photography and videography.
Deep in the jungles of Central Africa, pathogens lurk in animal species threatening to spill over into humans. In one corner of the forest, one man stands as a shield against the next pandemic that could paralyze the world.​
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Amid climate chaos, the Winnemem Wintu tribe fights to keep a sacred promise to return their ancestral, Winter-Run Chinook Salmon to the waters of California, just as the salmon runs across the world are collapsing. Guided by Chief Caleen, they must journey to New Zealand, where
miraculously, the genetic descendants
of their salmon survived.
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Amid climate chaos, the Winnemem Wintu tribe fights to keep a sacred promise to return their ancestral, Winter-Run Chinook Salmon to the waters of California, just as the salmon runs across the world are collapsing. Guided by Chief Caleen, they must journey to New Zealand, where
miraculously, the genetic descendants
of their salmon survived.
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Amid climate chaos, the Winnemem Wintu tribe fights to keep a sacred promise to return their ancestral, Winter-Run Chinook Salmon to the waters of California, just as the salmon runs across the world are collapsing. Guided by Chief Caleen, they must journey to New Zealand, where
miraculously, the genetic descendants
of their salmon survived.
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The Khwe Bushmen of northern Botswana have lived nomadically in the African bush for 100,000 years or more. They are the original people.
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