Pay It Forward
Innovation That Goes Beyond The Boardroom
We believe the work we do should extend beyond the lab and the boardroom.
While we partner with founders and businesses to help build and guide the next era, our intention is to ensure that the value, impact, and opportunity created through this work reach further, into communities, regions, and systems where access to technology, education, and opportunity remains limited.
We aim to be transparent about where we are, where we’re going, and how we get there. And as we are trusted to help shape and hold the dreams of others, it’s only right that we share our own.
“Think of an idea to change our world and put it into action” - Redacted actor, Pay It Forward (2000)
What we’re working toward
Pay It Forward is an integrated part of RHC’s work, ensuring that the innovation we help create contributes to an equitable and accessible future for all.
Our work focuses on three core areas that are also aligned to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals:
Tech for good: supporting solutions that address real-world challenges
Education: expanding access to skills, mentorship, and learning pathways
Equitable innovation: ensuring more people can participate in and benefit from technological progress
At its core, this is about one underlying idea: when we innovate, this innovation should reach beyond the boardroom.
Our Approach: Crawl, Walk, Run
To bring this vision to life, we apply the same strategic discipline we use with our clients, building this work sustainably and with intention.
This is how we plan to get there →
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We embed “pay it forward” directly into how we operate in our day-to-day.
A portion of revenue from client projects is held in reserves to support our future pay it forward ventures and initiatives.
Our For The Curious resources are freely available, offering tools, frameworks, thinking, and ideas that support independent innovation at any age or stage.
This ensures accessible impact while building a foundation of financial capacity, shared knowledge, and the structures that sustain our work.
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We focus on connecting ideas, people, and systems across different contexts.
Producing research and content that contributes to broader systems thinking and future-facing innovation
Building community and partnerships with people, organisations, researchers, and initiatives working across aligned domains
Developing early-stage concepts and ventures into real-world applications
Here we extend capability outward, linking insight, collaboration, and emerging solutions, so they can be tested and developed in context.
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Our North Star is to develop dedicated programs that deliver long-term, on-the-ground impact in developing regions.
Deliver hands-on work in developing regions by applying RHC’s strategic and advisory capabilities
Invest in local education ecosystems and access to our technological ventures.
The intention is not just to provide support or technology, but to ensure that those closest to the challenges have the resources, knowledge, and agency to shape their own solutions.
And by doing so, we hope to not only share our knowledge, but to learn from other regions of the world as well, to help build a more equitable and abundant Earth.
Looking Ahead
We’re sharing this because it matters to us that our work has meaning beyond immediate outcomes. It also matters that the organisations we work with understand what we’re personally working towards.
As we all grow and settle into building the next era, this page will evolve with us. We’ll share our progress, learnings and opportunities to get involved over time. But in the meantime, you can explore our first venture, The Water Project.
This is our commitment to build a future where innovation, knowledge, and opportunity are more widely shared, so that everyone can experience the ideas and dreams that land in their head.
If you have an idea, you can start your journey here.