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ICONIQ Impact Announces Grantees of Collaborative Philanthropy Fund Aiming to Mobilize $200M for Youth Mental Health and Wellbeing

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ICONIQ Impact’s Youth Mental Wellbeing Co-Lab is supporting 25 organizations that are addressing youth anxiety and depression around the world.

NEW YORK, March 5, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Today, ICONIQ Impact, ICONIQ Capital’s platform for collaborative philanthropy, announced the grantees of the Youth Mental Wellbeing Co-Lab—a collaborative philanthropy fund that aims to mobilize $200 million to support organizations addressing youth anxiety and depression around the world.

The Co-Lab is kicking off with $112 million in donations from eight philanthropic donors and will support 25 grantee organizations with unrestricted funding over five years.

“This Co-Lab is boldly supporting organizations addressing critical but often neglected areas of youth mental health, like ensuring culturally responsive care for underserved populations and teaching young people how to build healthy relationships with technology,” says Xin Liu, philanthropist and anchor donor to the Youth Mental Wellbeing Co-Lab. “We’re encouraging other philanthropists to join us in this effort because we have an opportunity and a responsibility to empower the most vital and powerful force this world has—its young people.”

The mental health and wellbeing of young people around the world has been declining for nearly two decades. Roughly 20% of youth globally struggle with anxiety, and nearly one in four experience symptoms of depression. Mental health and policy experts agree that global trends like a worsening climate, financial inequity, social media use, and more have created a bleak present—and future—for young people around the world. This is particularly true for young people in the Global South, who often deal with compounding crises like extreme poverty, conflict, and forced migration.

Despite an increased need for support, only 2% of government health funding globally is directed toward mental health, leaving many young people without the care they need. Youth mental health and wellbeing is a prime space for support; every dollar given toward scaling interventions for depression and anxiety returns four times its value in terms of improved health and productivity.

It’s against this backdrop that ICONIQ Impact—alongside Xin Liu and other philanthropists in the ICONIQ community—launched the Youth Mental Wellbeing Co-Lab, which will support organizations focused on reducing youth anxiety and depression by (1) giving young people agency, (2) helping them foster a sense of community and belonging, and (3) building their resilience.

Giving young people agency: Economic inequity, climate anxiety, political turmoil, and other societal scale challenges can leave young people feeling powerless and like they lack the ability to control their own circumstances and futures. Co-Lab grantees will help give youth the power and support they need to affect change in their own lives, within their communities, and across society.For example, Co-Lab grantee Force of Nature helps young people turn their “eco-anxiety” into climate change activism. In its flagship training program, youth participants develop public speaking skills, learn to advise influential figures such as corporate and government leaders, and gain the ability to lead climate advocacy training programs for their peers.Helping young people build a sense of community and belonging: Despite being more connected than ever, young people today experience higher levels of loneliness and isolation than any other generation. Co-Lab grantees will help youth cultivate meaningful connections with peers, find a sense of belonging in their chosen communities, and build a purposeful life.Co-Lab grantee OurHerd is a storytelling app powered by the youth mental health organization batyr that connects young people with peers experiencing similar mental health challenges in a safe, monitored space. The platform’s peer-to-peer storytelling model helps foster a sense of community among youth and lets them know they are not alone. It also shares quantitative and qualitative data with decision-makers in government and mental healthcare systems to help ensure young people’s ideas and voices are considered when making policy and programming decisions.Building young people’s resilience: Societal-scale problems and individual crises—like family conflict, poverty, chronic illness, and more—can overwhelm young people, leading to emotional distress and poor mental health. Co-Lab grantees will help build young people’s resilience so they can better withstand hardships, failures, and adversity, reducing the likelihood of long-term mental health issues.Co-Lab grantee Roca, Inc. helps young people escape cycles of incarceration and poverty by providing direct mental health support to those impacted by violence in the United States. It also instructs the institutions that surround underserved young people—like police forces, child protective services, and court systems—on how to effectively support young people’s mental health in these circumstances.

A full list of the 25 grantees can be found here. The Co-Lab will fund organizations across the United States and the Global South. Organizations in the Global South will receive roughly 60% of the Co-Lab’s total funding.

“Building up an individual’s agency, resilience, and sense of belonging from a young age is foundational to their mental wellbeing over the course of their life,” says Matti Navellou, head of ICONIQ Impact. “We are determined to support our grantees in getting these formative tools into the hands of today’s youth and creating new pathways for them to shape their own futures.”

The Youth Mental Wellbeing Co-Lab sought input from a youth advisory group, which provided critical feedback, insights, and recommendations on the grantee organizations considered for funding. The group consisted of youth representatives from nearly every continent, reflecting a diverse range of genders, ethnicities, and mental health expertise, including research, policy development, and program implementation.

The Co-Lab is currently supported by eight philanthropic donors, who, over the course of several months, have collectively learned about the global youth mental health and wellbeing space from subject-matter experts and have worked alongside them and ICONIQ Impact to source, diligence, and select the Co-Lab’s 25 grantee organizations.

To date, ICONIQ Impact has mobilized $112 million for this effort and is inviting additional philanthropists to join this donor community. Philanthropists interested in learning more about or providing additional funding for the Youth Mental Wellbeing Co-Lab should contact ICONIQ Impact at iconiqimpact@iconiqcapital.com.

ABOUT ICONIQ IMPACT:

ICONIQ Impact is ICONIQ Capital’s platform for collaborative philanthropy. We convene our extraordinary community to tackle some of the world’s most complex challenges. Guided by experts and impacted groups, our model lowers the barriers to philanthropy, encourages collective action, and prioritizes learning and equity at each step. We focus our philanthropy on areas where we believe it can be catalytic and where we see an opportunity to inspire additional funding from philanthropists, governments, and the private sector. This means supporting unproven solutions that have the potential to be transformative, such as a new technology, an overlooked approach, or a locally led organization.

ICONIQ Impact Co-Labs are collaborative philanthropy funds addressing urgent challenges facing the world today. Each Co-Lab enables donors to maximize their efficiency through co-funding while learning from experts and leaders of impacted communities.1

Xin Liu is the co-founder and president of the Enlight Foundation, as well as the director and co-founder of the Xinhe Foundation (previously Xinping Foundation) in China. Her philanthropy is focused on creating equal educational opportunities for children in developing countries, supporting action-driven research that advances education, and investing in young social entrepreneurs and leaders. Xin is an award-winning photojournalist whose work has been published in both the United States and China. She began her career as a writer and photojournalist for China Youth Daily, where she documented women’s and children’s schooling conditions throughout the mainland. She was later invited to join the Baltimore Sun and has subsequently had her work published in the Miami Herald, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Palm Beach Post, China for Time magazine, Newsweek, Fortune magazine, and more. Through her work, Xin was exposed to education inequality across China and the United States and developed a strong belief that rural poverty can be alleviated through strengthening communities, improving and increasing access to early education, and investing in the next generation.

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1 ICONIQ Impact serves as a philanthropic advisor to the third-party sponsoring the Co-Lab and receives compensation for its advice.

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NUH WINS GOLD AT IHF AWARDS 2026 FOR GREEN OPERATING THEATRE PROGRAMME

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 NUH won Gold and received an Honourable Mention for its sustainability efforts at the International Hospital Federation Awards 2026, alongside presentations of its green surgical initiatives, digital health and organisational improvement initiatives at the World Hospital Congress.

SINGAPORE, Oct. 21, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — The National University Hospital (NUH) has won the Gold Award (Low Carbon Healthcare) for its Green Operating Theatre programme at the International Hospital Federation (IHF) Awards 2026. The hospital also received an Honourable Mention (Hospital Sustainability Acceleration) for its system-wide approach to embedding sustainability across healthcare delivery and hospital operations.

The awards were presented at the 49th World Hospital Congress in Seoul, where NUH is also sharing other initiatives in environmental sustainability, digital health and organisational improvement.

Professor Aymeric Lim, Chief Executive Officer of NUH, said: “Healthcare must become more sustainable without compromising patient care. Our teams have shown that simple, practical changes on the ground, from the way we run our operating theatres to how we use resources, can make a real difference. This recognition belongs to the multi-disciplinary teams and partners who turned ideas into everyday practice, and who continue to improve how we care for our patients.”

Advancing low-carbon healthcare by reducing the environmental impact of surgical care

NUH’s Green Operating Theatre (OT) programme began with efforts to reduce the use of high-carbon anaesthetic gases. What started as a targeted decarbonisation initiative has since grown into a hospital-wide programme that brings together clinicians, nurses, operations teams and facilities staff to drive sustainability across surgical practices, resource use, waste management and energy management.

The programme has achieved a 99 per cent reduction in the use of desflurane, a high-carbon anaesthetic gas, and delivered annual energy savings of about 660,000 kWh by optimising operating theatre ventilation during non-operating hours.

Surgical teams redesigned instrument sets used for high-volume knee replacement procedures to better reflect routine requirements, reducing emissions by almost 10,000 kg CO2e annually while also cutting water use and sterilisation workload. Efforts have also been made to reduce unnecessary consumables and expand medical recycling streams.

Collectively, these initiatives have generated valuable insights that NUH has actively shared through inter-cluster platforms and collaborations, helping to inform the adoption of low-carbon practices across Singapore’s public healthcare system.

Embedding sustainability into everyday healthcare delivery

NUH received an Honourable Mention for its organisation-wide approach to embedding sustainability into hospital planning and operations.

Guided by the IHF Sustainability Accelerator Tool, NUH integrated sustainability into leadership oversight, strategic planning and everyday decision-making, strengthening efforts in Appropriate Value-based Care, virtual care, procurement, workforce engagement and environmental stewardship.

This system-wide approach to advancing a sustainable healthcare system has been recognised internationally. In 2025, NUH became the first hospital worldwide to receive the Joint Commission International-Geneva Sustainability Centre’s Healthcare Sustainability Certification. This year, it was the only hospital in Singapore to be accorded the highest 5-Leaf distinction in Newsweek-Statista’s World’s Greenest Hospitals index.

A new model of rehabilitation care

Recognised as one of the top three healthcare innovations selected for the International Hospital Federation’s i-to-i Innovation Hub Awards 2026, the NUH Virtual Rehabilitation Centre (VRC) is helping to extend rehabilitation beyond hospital walls.

Developed as a virtual-first rehabilitation ecosystem, the VRC combines personalised patient education, self-management tools, AI-enabled telerehabilitation, remote monitoring and digital rehabilitation pathways to support patients throughout their recovery journey. By enabling rehabilitation to continue beyond traditional clinic visits, the VRC improves access to care, strengthens patient participation in recovery and allows therapists to focus their attention on patients with more complex rehabilitation needs. The digital home exercise programme, for instance, supports around 2,000 patients and records about 21,000 logins each month, freeing up the equivalent of 66 physiotherapist workdays annually for direct patient care.

The innovation demonstrates how technology can be used not simply to digitise existing services, but to transform how rehabilitation is delivered at scale.

Helping doctors work smarter with electronic medical records

NUH also presented results from its Great Epic Transformation (GET) programme at the 49th World Hospital Congress in Seoul. The hospital-wide programme trained specialist doctors to personalise their Epic electronic medical record (EMR) workflows, using customised note templates, order sets and shortcuts to work more efficiently.

Nine months after training, participating doctors spent 10.2 per cent less time in the EMR each day, equivalent to more than 33 hours saved per doctor annually, while time spent placing orders fell by 26.5 per cent. Twelve of 13 efficiency measures improved across both medical and surgical specialties. Based on annual estimates, the overall efficiency gains are valued at more than S$91 million a year.

The programme is being extended to allied health professionals and pharmacists across NUHS, with a target of reaching more than 2,000 healthcare professionals by the end of 2026.

About the National University Hospital (NUH)­

The National University Hospital (NUH) is Singapore’s university hospital. While the hospital at Kent Ridge first received its patients on 24 June 1985, our legacy started from 1905, the date of the founding of what is today the NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine. NUH is the principal teaching hospital of the medical school.

Our unique identity as a university hospital is a key attraction for healthcare professionals who aspire to do more than practise tertiary medical care. We offer an environment where research and teaching are an integral part of medicine, and continue to shape medicine and transform care for the community we care for.

We are an academic medical centre with over 1,200 beds, serving more than one million patients a year with over 50 medical, surgical and dental specialties. NUH is the only public and not-for-profit hospital in Singapore to provide trusted care for adults, women and children under one roof, including the only paediatric kidney and liver transplant programme in the country.

The NUH is a key member of the National University Health System (NUHS), one of three public healthcare clusters in Singapore. For more information, visit www.nuh.com.sg

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NEXCOM NGFW platforms secure growing traffic across modern academic networks

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TAIPEI, Oct. 21, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — NEXCOM, a leading supplier of network appliances, is helping academic institutions strengthen network security as digital learning expands across cloud platforms, AI-powered tools, remote access, and connected campus services.

As educational environments become more distributed, academic networks must support growing traffic and diverse connections while protecting sensitive data and maintaining reliable access to learning resources. NEXCOM’s Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW) platforms provide a centralized security layer for inspecting and controlling traffic across campus and remote environments.

Learn more about securing digital learning environments in the joint case study.

Centralized Security for Digital Learning

On campus, NGFW platforms can inspect traffic between academic networks and external resources as students and faculty access learning platforms and web services. For remote users, secure VPN connectivity supports authorized access to internal resources while enabling centralized security policies.

“Every new digital service in education adds value for students and educators, but it also adds traffic, connections, and another layer of security responsibility,” says Allan Chiu, VP of Networking and Communication Solutions at NEXCOM. “The challenge is making sure security keeps pace without slowing down the learning experience. NEXCOM’s NGFW platforms provide the performance and scalability needed to secure modern, highly distributed academic networks.”

Scalable Platforms for Network Security

NEXCOM’s portfolio provides scalable platforms for firewall, edge security, secure remote access, and demanding network security workloads. Key platforms include:

NSA 7160R: A 2U high-performance security platform powered by dual Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors, with eight PCIe 5.0 expansion slots and throughput of up to 1.6 Tbps.FTA 5190: A compact 1U edge server powered by Intel Xeon 6 SoC technology, designed for reliable connectivity and security at the network edge.

About NEXCOM

Founded in 1992 and headquartered in Taipei, Taiwan, NEXCOM is shaping the future of AI-powered networking with its software-defined solutions. Through its Network and Communication Solutions (NCS) unit, NEXCOM delivers cutting-edge platforms for Cybersecurity, OT Security, SD-WAN, SASE, Load Balancing, 5G uCPE, edge AI, and more. NCS specializes in professional design and manufacturing services, enabling reliable and scalable network infrastructures for businesses of all sizes. With a focus on innovation, NEXCOM’s solutions empower customers worldwide to build resilient, high-performance networks tailored to the demands of tomorrow’s connectivity challenges.

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Forrester’s 2027 B2B Go-To-Market Predictions: AI Agents Will Influence 75% Of B2B Purchase Decisions

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To remain competitive, providers must strengthen customer trust, substantiate value claims, and offer human expertise and guidance

SINGAPORE, Oct. 22, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — According to Forrester’s (Nasdaq: FORR) 2027 B2B go-to-market predictions, business buyers will increasingly deploy AI agents to handle tasks across the buying process, from supplier discovery and information gathering to contract-renewal analysis. While truly autonomous buying will remain concentrated in high-volume, low-risk, and repeatable purchases, the ubiquity of these agents will require providers to ensure that their systems and sellers can respond with speed, accuracy, and consistency.

Forrester’s B2B Predictions reports, covering topics including B2B go-to-market strategy, business buyers, and content and creative, offer forward-looking insights to help executives and their teams anticipate change, reduce uncertainty, and make confident decisions ahead of market shifts. Key highlights from the 2027 B2B go-to-market predictions include:

Buyers will double their human interactions to validate AI-generated recommendations. As AI becomes the primary interface for researching products and providers, buyers will encounter more AI-generated recommendations, synthetic content, automated outreach, and agent-mediated interactions. Since AI cannot fully judge service provider fit, feasibility, trust, or accountability, buyers will require conversations with provider teams and trusted third parties including analysts, customer references, and partners to confirm and validate buying decisions.Two-thirds of providers will lose deals because buyers cannot verify claims. Buyers already use AI-assisted search and analysis tools to gather information about products and vendors, synthesize provider claims, and fact check. As the reliance on these capabilities continue to advance, go-to-market teams will need to act fast to restructure content discovery for AI tools, including providing credible and consistent proof points that AI tools can index and validate.Most CMOs will cut programs or accept reduced capacity after overestimating AI gains. As pressure intensifies to reduce personnel costs with AI, marketing leaders will eliminate as many as 25% of roles in anticipation of productivity gains that fail to meet expectations. As a result, they will have to choose between cutting program budgets to restore capacity through rehiring, contractors, or agency support or accept reduced execution with a smaller team. In either case, lower campaign investment, weaker execution, or both will reduce marketing’s overall value contribution.

“In 2027, the defining challenge for B2B go-to-market leaders will be to make deliberate choices about what to automate and where human judgment still matters,” said Sharyn Leaver, chief research officer at Forrester. “As AI becomes ubiquitous across the buying process, B2B leaders that pair AI-driven speed and convenience with transparency, control, and trust will extract the most value from AI.”

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Download Forrester’s 2027 Predictions guide for B2B go-to-market.Register for Forrester’s webinar exploring the key trends reshaping B2B go-to-market strategies in 2027.Learn how to turn these predictions into action through Forrester’s global B2B events and research programs.

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Forrester (Nasdaq: FORR) is one of the most influential research and advisory firms in the world. We empower leaders in technology, customer experience, digital, marketing, revenue, and product functions to make confident decisions in an AI-driven world and accelerate growth through customer obsession. Our unique research and continuous guidance model helps executives and their teams achieve their initiatives and outcomes faster and with confidence. To learn more, visit Forrester.com.

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