Columbia World Projects
Columbia World Projects mobilizes the university’s researchers and scholars to collaborate with governments, non-profits, businesses, and communities to seek new insights and pursue policies and solutions to global challenges.
Columbia World Projects was established with one ambition: To pursue research that is timely and can inform discourse or solutions.
By spearheading transformational convenings, catalytic social impact projects, and training programs for emerging social impact leaders, Columbia World Projects is moving the needle by bringing together thinkers and doers to make change.
We pair Columbia’s researchers, faculty, and students with changemakers in the field to advance fresh insights and co-create solutions that are grounded in scholarship — and built to last. Through hands-on projects, cross-sector partnerships, and policy-driven research, we’re closing the gap between knowledge and action.
More Than a Think Tank. A Get-It-Done Tank.
We are not just generating ideas, we are testing them, scaling them — and learning from the results. From improving wastewater systems to building climate resilience, from rethinking political economy to expanding access to education for displaced students, every Columbia World Project is designed to make a tangible difference.
