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About Us

We’re working toward one goal: a country where everyone has a fair shot at wellbeing.

Mission Transition

In November 2024, FFI announced our intention to transition our mission outside of the organization to our network of champions and allies. While FFI’s operations will wind down by June 2025, we’re investing our resources to equip champions so they can carry the work forward – because building a country where everyone has a fair shot at wellbeing has always been bigger than FFI. We also hope to set an inspiring example of how to wind down with integrity and care. Sign up for our newsletter and follow us on LinkedIn for the latest news about this new phase for our mission.

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The Full Frame Initiative is a social change organization working to make the U.S. a country where everyone has a fair shot at wellbeing. FFI’s mission is grounded in three truths:

  • First, we’re all hardwired for wellbeing – the combination and balance of what’s essential for each of us to be whole, healthy, hopeful and resilient.
  • Second, we don’t all get the same access to wellbeing, and the result is deep inequities and gaps in thriving.
  • Third, we can fix this if we – government, neighbors, businesses and service agencies – put wellbeing equity at the center of the decisions we make, from big public policy, to how we build neighborhoods, to how police and neighbors interact.

From these three simple statements come whole new ways of understanding challenges, and ways to address them. FFI partners with changemakers across the country to reimagine what’s possible, and then to make that new vision a reality.

Hear more from Katya Fels Smyth, founder and CEO of FFI, who shares what inspired her to start this work and why it continues to be important.

Our Work

FFI and our partners work together to advance structural change, shift mental models and solve problems through a wellbeing orientation.

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Our Team

Meet the staff, Senior Fellows and Board of Executives that make our work possible.

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Our Partners

We work with decision-makers and people with influence in systems and communities, including those closest to the harm.

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