IMPACT WEEK: Dialogues and Action Towards a Coherence and New Future

Exactly 45 days ago when we gathered in Singapore for IMPACT WEEK 2025, the energy felt different. It was not just another conference of panels, speeches, and handshakes. It was something more alive — a coalition of ideas in motion, a glimpse of what happens when financiers and investors sit alongside impact project developers, and when family offices listen to the voices of youth. The question in the room was not “how much can we raise, or what impact project to support” but something deeper: what is it all for, if we our collective well-being is not uplifted?

This change in outlook shift matters. It shows that the impact movement is growing beyond its transactional roots and into a living ecosystem of purpose, coherence, and interdependence. For the NO.17 Foundation , a organisation still new to the world but rooted in decades of stewardship by the Tsao Pao Chee and Chavalit Frederick Tsao , this is exactly the terrain we were created to serve.

IMPACT WEEK is created to serve and build this coherence ecosystem. We have started our inaugural week welcoming more than 4,000 participants across philanthropy, business, academia, government, and civil society and convened over 200 sessions creating our mandate to serve.

IMPACT WEEK and Understanding the role of NO.17

IMPACT WEEK moved NO.17 from a “mystery to mandate" As we continue to build NO.17 our mandate is clear: we are here to stitch what is fragmented, to host coherence across capital, culture, governance, and community. Unlike traditional philanthropy that writes cheques or advocacy that campaigns from the outside, NO.17 is stepping into the role of orchestrator and building systemic transformation: mobilising capital flows as a value chain rather than isolated pools, scoping innovative approaches and building a coalition that catalytically implement project portfolios for long-term impact. Our task is not only to deploy capital, but to redefine relationship to wealth itself as an expression of care, regeneration, and collective well-being for all.

What IMPACT WEEK has Revealed

IMPACT WEEK 2025 revealed a decisive shift from conversation to coherence, from pledges to portfolios. Across the week, 8 landmark commitments signaled that the architecture of the well-being economy is beginning to take form.

The Impact Partners Coalition united 16 institutions from Temasek Foundation and GAEA (WEF) to OceanX and NO.17 Foundation under one shared covenant: to weave finance, education, nature restoration, and governance into a single system of transformation. The TPC–Climate KIC Asia Roadmap now embed this spirit through collaborative action in climate, health, and education, while the 99 for Humanity Initiative reimagines philanthropy through architectures of collective capital.

At the structural level, WEGA—the Well-being & EESG Alliance between TPC and NUS—places well-being at the heart of economic measurement, shifting EESG from compliance to consciousness. The US$ 75 million Ocean Fund, the region’s largest, redefines finance as a vessel of regeneration. New initiatives the UN SDSN GBA–ASEAN Alliance and the Social Transformation Project at Fengshan translate these principles into practice: linking cities, communities, and families into one ecosystem for flourishing of life for all.

Taken together, these announcements show that Asia is not following global trends it is shaping them. IMPACT WEEK revealed that the future economy will be built not through competition, but through co-stewardship, coherence, care and love the cornerstones of a new civilisation of well-being.

The Next Building Blocks of Transformation

As IMPACT WEEK moves everyone from intention to execution, the challenge before us is not merely to sustain momentum, but to deepen coherence. The following five building blocks offer pathways to embed well-being and systemic transformation into the fabric of how Asia and the world creates, collaborates, and invests.

• Asia’s Leadership as Convener: Building East–West Synergy: Asia’s heritage of balance, interdependence, and stewardship gives it a unique cultural logic to bridge divided systems. The region’s convening power lies not only in its markets but in its mindset the ability to hold paradoxes of growth and grace, technology and tradition. By positioning Singapore as collaborative “point of coherence,” NO.17 can enable East–West capital, culture, and consciousness to meet not as opposites, but as complementary forces designing a shared future.
• Voices from the Impact Achievers: Designing Through Diversity: The next phase of the well-being economy must be shaped by those creating real change on the ground the innovators, youth, local communities, educators, and social entrepreneurs who represent humanity’s living intelligence. Rather than consultation, we must move toward co-creation: integrating lived wisdom into boardrooms, metrics, and policies. NO.17 will build a thought leadership that will ensures these wisdoms and solutions inform systemic transformation.
• Innovation Beyond Disruption: Creating Adaptive Systems: True innovation is not about disruption it is about integration. The call ahead is to move beyond “tech for scale” toward innovation for coherence: regenerative finance models, community-driven enterprises, circular economies, and digital infrastructures that embed ethics and inclusion by design. Innovation must serve as the connective tissue between purpose and practice, allowing systems to evolve organically rather than fracture repeatedly.
• Culture at the Heart of Change: Building the Mindset for a Well-being Economy: Finance alone cannot transform systems culture must flow alongside capital. The new economy demands storytellers, artists, educators, and cultural architects who can shift narratives from competition to care, from extraction to regeneration. NO.17 aims to nurture a cultural movements that make the invisible values of love, trust, and stewardship visible through imagination because mindsets change long before markets do.
• Building with Radical Honesty: Practicing Coherence in Action: Achieving tangible Impact work cannot thrive in illusion. Radical honesty naming what is hard, what is uncertain, and what is unfinished creates the conditions for true coherence. This means transparent governance, feedback loops across partners, and humility in learning from failure. By practicing honesty as a collective discipline, we turn vulnerability into trust, and trust into the architecture of system change and transformation.

NO.17 will move these building blocks forward as we continue to build our expertise and our team in future.

The Community who made IMPACT WEEK possible

None of this would have been possible without the constellation of partners, collaborators, and team members who supporting in creation of IMPACT WEEK. From key coalition members Temasek Foundation Philanthropy Asia Alliance Climate KIC Catalyst Now Global Citizen OceanX Re:wild NUS Centre for Governance and Sustainability (CGS) Stewardship Asia Centre Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME) FBN (Family Business Network) The Global Impact Investing Network World Economic Forum GAEA; All Session partners Resilient Cities Network SecondMuse Sustainable Finance Initiative Sunway University Synergos The Carbon Trust The Nature Conservancy Tsao Family Office Pte. Ltd. TSAO FAMILY FOUNDATION Unearthodox Center for Sustainable Finance and Private Wealth B Lab Co-Axis AVPN WWF WBCSD – World Business Council for Sustainable Development Yindii JPMorganChase Club of Rome and many more. With special thanks to all sponsors Barclays Private Bank J.P. Morgan Private Bank Citi UOB UBS KKR and all partner led events which happen during IMPACT WEEK.

Our ever so a dynamic team of champions who work tirelessly, but always with a smile Sook Yee Tai Alice Ong Gavin Lum @Esther Sihui Li Matthew Ling Camille Wong Hongrui Wu Sam Chau @Mei Yen

Our key group of advisors and supporter Luis Alvarado Martinez Kirsten Dunlop Fredrik Galtung Omid Aschari Hai T. Yvonne Leung Boon Heong Ng Shaun Seow Ashley Brooks Michael Sheldrick Lawrence Loh Melody Song Amit Bouri @Mark Dalio Rajeev Peshawaria Alexis du Roy de Blicquy Andrew Bryson

A Call to Join

The task ahead is not NO.17's alone. NO.17 is here to help and provide the stitching, structuring, and orchestration that turns fragments into coherence. As NO.17's team continues to grow from strength to strength.

We are here to work with everyone whose intention are aligned with actions. From convenings to creating platforms to financing to capital flows to implementation. To family offices, foundations, entrepreneurs, and next-generation leaders: the well-being economy cannot be built without you. The NO.17 is building a Team for the Planet a coalition that all of us must nurture together.

If you or your organisation would like to co-create with us, we welcome you to join the NO.17 team as we bring the spirit of IMPACT WEEK to Davos 2026 and prepare for next year’s cycle. Reach out to us and let’s build this movement together.