The Connection Map
Curricula and guides that help people recognize their own relational patterns — how they attach, communicate, and trust.
Relational Literacy · EducationSupport the Science
The research and education we produce is given back to the public, freely. Your support is what keeps it that way — rigorous, open, and available to everyone.
Why Give
Relational skill is rarely taught. We are changing that.
Loneliness is now understood as a public-health crisis — with effects on the body compared to smoking. Yet almost no one is taught how connection actually works.
We treat connection as a subject of rigorous study and open education: research the public can read, and curricula the public can learn from. Unlike advice, our findings are published on a nondiscriminatory basis and belong to everyone.
Philanthropy is what makes that possible. Because the work is given away rather than sold, it depends on people who believe relational intelligence should be a shared human literacy — not a product.
Where Your Support Goes
Four bodies of work, all released to the public.
Curricula and guides that help people recognize their own relational patterns — how they attach, communicate, and trust.
Relational Literacy · EducationTurning the distance between what we intend and how we act into a tool for growth — a mirror, not a verdict.
Behavioral Self-UnderstandingPopulation-level research on de-identified, consented data into what predicts connection and lasting stability. Published openly.
Public-Interest ScienceStudy and teaching of trust, consent, and emotional safety — so closeness is never bought at the cost of harm.
Relational Safety · ResearchWays to Give
Every gift keeps the science open.
Fund a specific study, guide, or workshop. Every contribution is put directly toward research and public education.
Recurring support gives the work continuity — the steadiest way to keep open research and education alive year over year.
Underwrite an entire program or a multi-year research line. We’ll build the partnership around the questions you care about.
Make relational literacy part of what you leave behind. We can work with you and your advisors on planned gifts.
The Institute is a proposed 501(c)(3) with tax-exempt status pending. We are not yet accepting donations. Register your intent below and we’ll be in touch the moment tax-deductible giving opens — and confirm your preferred way to give.
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The Institute is a proposed 501(c)(3) with tax-exempt status pending. We can’t receive donations yet — this note simply registers your intent, and we’ll follow up the moment tax-deductible giving opens.