A Commonwealth centenary observance
Give 100
A people-led Commonwealth centenary observance, prepared through a five-month countdown, opened through Opening Semidons across 100 Commonwealth Cities, and carried through a Year of Peace to establish the Institute of Preemptology, incorporating the Queen Elizabeth II Centre for Cervical Cancer Elimination.
Give 100 is a public observance conducted in institutional form. It honours the centenary of Queen Elizabeth II by mobilising 100 Commonwealth Cities to establish the Institute of Preemptology, incorporating the Queen Elizabeth II Centre for Cervical Cancer Elimination (QE2C). The observance is the civic means; the institution is the enduring consequence. The Sovereign Shield supplies the founding capital that makes it permanent.
Before the Year of Peace: a five-month countdown from Queen Elizabeth II’s centenary to the Opening Semidons.
Three functions, one founding purpose
Give 100 operates through three structural functions: an observance that marks the centenary, an institutional founding process that establishes permanent capacity, and a stewardship structure that holds what is built in trust for the populations it will serve.
The Observance
A people-led Commonwealth centenary observance prepared through a five-month countdown, formally opened on the International Day of Peace 2026, and carried through a full Year of Peace across 100 Commonwealth Cities. The observance is the public expression of the founding: distributed, civic, and structured around a single institutional objective.
The Founding
The Founding is the institutional work through which Give 100 capitalises the Institute of Preemptology, incorporating QE2C, the training pipeline, mobile health systems, Preemptive Health Zones, and the founding institutional infrastructure of the IoP.
The Stewardship
The founding capital is held in independent fiduciary custody. Givingtide International is the institutional steward of the observance. Stewardship is the structure that ensures the founding holds.
A centenary rendered in institutional form
Queen Elizabeth II gave a lifetime to duty, continuity, and service across the Commonwealth. Her centenary calls for a response shaped by those qualities — disciplined, useful, and built to last.
Give 100 treats the centenary as a mandate to found: permanent institutional capacity befitting a life of that consequence. What the centenary occasions, the institution outlasts.
For over seventy years, the Queen practised a consistent logic: acting before crisis, sustaining institutions before urgency, and shaping outcomes before fracture. The Institute of Preemptology now gives clinical form to that logic. She marked longevity — sending a message to every centenarian — and the Institute now works to make that longevity common.
The centenary, honoured in her own spirit, does not just look back. It builds what endures.
The highest form of remembrance is creation.
One permanent institution
The founding purpose is to establish one institute and its flagship centre. Both are named here in full, as they will appear in the founding registry.
The Institute of Preemptology
The Institute of Preemptology is the world’s first institution dedicated exclusively to the prevention of disease. Its mandate is to develop the discipline of preemptology, train its practitioners, generate its evidence base, and organise prevention as a defined, accountable field of medicine — with a protected mandate and individual physician accountability for a defined population.
The Queen Elizabeth II Centre for Cervical Cancer Elimination
The Queen Elizabeth II Centre for Cervical Cancer Elimination is the Institute’s flagship programme: a focused institutional drive to eliminate a cancer that is preventable, detectable, and still too often fatal where prevention systems are absent. The Centre gives the founding moral clarity, operational focus, and immediate human consequence.
The initiative capitalises a defined institutional build: the Institute of Preemptology, incorporating QE2C, the training pipeline, mobile health systems, Preemptive Health Zones, and the founding institutional infrastructure of the IoP. The observance opens on 21 September 2026 and culminates on 21 September 2027.
Prevention is not absent. It is fragmented.
Modern health systems do not lack prevention. They disperse it across specialties, programmes, departments, and public-health structures — which means responsibility is diluted even where good intentions are present.
The result is familiar: late detection, fragmented pathways, preventable suffering, and a burden that falls heaviest on people with the least time, money, and institutional access.
Preemptology is the institutional correction. It gives prevention a defined home, a dedicated logic, and a professional identity organised around acting before disease becomes crisis. The Institute assigns to prevention the single-point accountability existing systems have never structurally provided.
A defined discipline
A defined field with training, standards, methods, and accountability for outcomes within a defined population.
A protected mandate
Prevention is the sole, protected function of the preemptologist.
A scalable model
The Institute exists to prove, refine, and extend a prevention system designed to be deployed far beyond its first site.
The first flagship because the case is clear
The Institute of Preemptology is built for whole-person prevention. Within that mandate, one disease is given emphasis. Cervical cancer is the Institute’s flagship work because it is fully preventable, operationally tractable, and structurally diagnostic of health-system failure. This is a disease the world already knows how to prevent, screen for, and treat early — yet it continues to kill at scale precisely where prevention is not institutionally owned.
The initiative begins where the ethical case is strongest: with a cancer that should not still be claiming lives for want of organised prevention. The Queen Elizabeth II Centre for Cervical Cancer Elimination demonstrates what becomes possible when prevention is given permanent structure, a defined mandate, and measurable accountability.
Cervical cancer persists, in part, because the women it kills are overlooked. The Queen’s reign made women visible. The Centre’s royal name is alignment: a visible promise that preventable deaths in women end here.
From countdown to culmination
Queen Elizabeth II’s 100th birthday begins the five-month countdown. givehundred.org is unveiled. Founding Commissions, Champions, Beacons, hosts, institutions, Citizens, LAMPs, and LAMP Companions begin preparatory mobilisation across the 100 Commonwealth Cities.
On the International Day of Peace, Give 100 formally opens with Opening Semidons in the 100 Commonwealth Cities. These are the first Semidons of the observance. Each City begins its Year of Peace commitment under the Sovereign Shield.
Across the observance year, each City aims to convene at least 100 additional Semidons. These Semidons seed gifts, pledges, volunteers, advocacy, solidarity, partnerships, public commitment, institutional alignment, and local Givingtide structures.
On the International Day of Peace 2027, the Sovereign Shield culminates with the final Semidon in Toronto for 100 LAMPs. The culmination marks the completion of the Give 100 observance year and the handover into the continuing institutional life of Givingtide and the Institute of Preemptology.
Prepared in a centenary year. Opened on the International Day of Peace. Carried through a Year of Peace. Culminating in a permanent shield.
Champions, cities, and a single institutional objective
Give 100 proceeds through cities. Each participating City prepares during the countdown, opens the observance through an Opening Semidon on 21 September 2026, and then aims to convene at least 100 additional Semidons during the Year of Peace. The Semidon is the repeatable unit of mobilisation through which each City seeds gifts, pledges, volunteers, advocacy, partnerships, public commitment, institutional alignment, and durable local Givingtide structures.
Each city’s participation is led by three Champions — crown, town and gown. The Civic Champion hosts; the Corporate Champion convenes; the Academic Champion frames. The role is catalytic. Champions carry the founding logic of the initiative into their cities and help prepare the civic field for Semidons, LAMP nominations, institutional participation, and local Givingtide formation.
Prospective Lead Anchor Municipal Philanthropists — LAMPs — may be nominated through the city process, from which LAMPs and LAMP Companions are identified for the city’s Semidons and for the final Semidon in Toronto on 21 September 2027.
The initiative is distributed by city, but unified by one founding objective.
The observance culminates. The institution remains.
This centenary tribute serves a defining and enduring purpose: the establishment of the Institute of Preemptology and, within it, QE2C — a Centre honouring Queen Elizabeth II through the elimination of cervical cancer, a preventable disease that still claims lives at scale. The Sovereign Shield opens a Year of Peace and culminates in a permanent institutional shield.
Commonwealth-wide in scope. Foundational in purpose. Preventive in consequence.