Resources
History and Mission
- The Lemelson Foundation overview
- Jerome Lemelson biography
- Jerome Lemelson video
- 2004 Report: Celebrating Ten Years of Improving Lives Through Invention
- Mission-Related Investing Statement
Strategy and Grantmaking Documents
- Five-Year Strategy: 2009-2013
- Grantmaking Guidelines
- Program Related Investing Strategy
- Recognition & Mentoring Program (RAMP) Concept Note
- Invention for Sustainable Development Program Strategy
- Technology Dissemination Strategy
Articles
- From Idea to Impact: Funding Invention for Sustainability, Innovations, winter 2006
- Social Entrepreneurship Yields High Returns, Far East Economic Review, April 2007
- "By the Grace of Invention: How Individuals Power Development", Innovations, Special Edition for Tech4Society, 2010
Lemelson Foundation Programs, Partners and Grantees
- Acumen Fund
- African American Male Achievers Network (A-MAN)
- Appropriate Infrastructure Development Group (AIDG)
- Aquaya Institute
- Ashoka-Lemelson Fellowship Program
- Aspen Institute - Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs (ANDE)
- Benetech
- Calvert Social Investment Foundation
- CAMBIA
- Centre for Rural Technology, Nepal
- Centro de Especialização em Fonoaudiologia Clínica (CEFAC)
- Centurion Systems - IEEE Kenya
- Climate Solutions
- Clinton Global Initiative
- CONDESAN
- Conversion Sound
- Cooper Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution - Design for the Other 90%
- Crossroads Community Outreach Foundation
- D.light Design
- Design that Matters
- Development Finance Forum
- E+Co
- Earth School Educational Foundation - Carbon Nation
- EARTH University
- East County One Stop (ECOS) - Microenterprise Inventor’s Program of Oregon (MIPO)
- East Meets West
- Ecotrust
- Embrace Global
- Emergence BioEnergy
- EnterpriseWorks Worldwide (EWW)
- Envirofit International
- Farmers Conservation Alliance
- Foundation for Geothermal Innovation
- Freeplay Foundation
- Grantmakers of Oregon and Southwest Washington
- GRUPO
- Gujarat Mahila Housing SEWA Trust
- Hampshire College & the Lemelson Assistive Technology Development Center (LATDC)
- Hillsboro High School
- IDEAAS
- IIT Madras
- Illahee
- Institut Pertanian Bogor
- International Development Enterprises (IDE), India
- International Development Enterprises (IDE), USA
- KickStart
- Lex Mundi Pro Bono Foundation
- Living Goods
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology - International Development Initiative
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Lemelson MIT Program
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology - MITE2S
- Mercy Corps
- MIT Press - Innovations
- M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation
- National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance (NCIIA)
- NESsT
- OptiOpia
- Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (OMSI)
- PlayPumps International - Water For All
- Portland Development Commission
- Portland State University Foundation - Oregon MESA
- Program for Appropriate Technologies in Health (PATH)
- Project Get Ready
- RAMP India
- RAMP Indonesia
- RAMP Peru
- Rocky Mountain Institute - Smart Garage Summit
- Rosemary Anderson High School
- Root Capital
- RSF Social Finance
- Sambotha
- Saturday Academy
- Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship
- SELCO Solar Light Pvt. Ltd.
- Sevak Solutions
- Smithsonian Institution - The Jerome & Dorothy Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation
- Stanford BioDesign
- StrawJet
- Sustainable Harvest Coffee Importers
- Sustainable Northwest
- Sustainability Institute
- Tech Start Foundation
- University of Nevada, Reno - Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention, Innovation and Entrepreneurship (LCIIE)
- Villgro
- WGBH Educational Foundation - Design Squad
- World Affairs Council of Oregon
- World Wildlife Fund (Smart Gear)
- Worldbike
- Yayasan Inovasi Teknologi