How to Participate — Give 100
The Charge

How to
Participate

The civic charge of Give 100.
Give 100 is entered not by affiliation, but by participation.
Its charge is simple: to give something of use — in any measure, in her honour — whether to a cause of one’s choosing, or toward the founding of the Institute of Preemptology.

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The Charge

P.E.A.C.E. —
The Charge to a Champion

As a Champion of Give 100, you are called to embody P.E.A.C.E. through five distinct acts during the Give 100 observance year.

P Propagate

Propagate Give 100 — inviting Commonwealth citizens to give in any measure, in Queen Elizabeth II’s honour, whether to a cause of their choosing or toward the founding of the Institute of Preemptology.

E Enkindle

Enkindle the observance by honouring the Opening Semidon on International Day of Peace 2026, and by sustaining the light of peace, service, and prevention throughout the observance year.

A Advocate

Advocate for Preemptology — the discipline of eliminating the preventable aspect of disease — through speeches, writings, and civic discourse during the observance year.

C Convene

Convene a Semidon — a cause-seeding gathering to awaken, organise, or multiply support for the Give 100 cause — after the formal opening of the observance on International Day of Peace 2026. Convening is a Champion act; citizens participate by giving what may be given.

E Enlist

Enlist by nominating or helping identify LAMPs and LAMP Companions who can carry the light of generosity forward and ensure continuity across generations in the City.

Through these five acts — to Propagate, Enkindle, Advocate, Convene, and Enlist — you give form to P.E.A.C.E. across the Commonwealth.

The Founding Instrument

The LAMP
Structure

The Founding is powered by a structured identification process. Its instrument is the Lead Anchor Municipal Philanthropist — the LAMP: each City’s leading light and beacon of generosity.

Each City ultimately has one Founding LAMP, who carries the City’s civic light toward the culminating Semidon in Toronto. Each City may also have two LAMP Companions — companion lights who sustain and extend the City’s participation throughout the observance year.

This is not donor segmentation. It is a structured identification process — curated, assayed, and institutionally consequential.

Nominations

Champions may nominate leading philanthropists native to or resident in or near their City, across three streams of civic leadership. Nominations are strictly confidential and flow into a curation and assay process through which one Founding LAMP and up to two LAMP Companions are identified per City.

  • Male Leadership Representing the strength of united philanthropy.
  • Female Leadership Representing the visible leadership of women, with the Queen as its exemplar.
  • Youth Leadership (under 40) Representing the inheritors entrusted to sustain Preemptology across generations.
Curation and Assay

Givingtide curates and assays nominations during the pre-observance mobilisation period, evaluating nominees across three dimensions:

Philanthropic Velocity Scale, consistency, and trajectory of giving.
Alignment Demonstrated commitment to health, education, or poverty elimination.
Convening Authority The capacity to activate peer networks within their City.
Outcome
100 Founding LAMPs
200 LAMP Companions
Full capacity 100 Cities at full ceremonial capacity
Civic Participation

General
Participation

Citizens are not asked to perform institutional roles. Citizens participate by giving what may be given.

They are not required to become Champions, conveners, or institutional stewards. They are asked only to give something useful — in any measure, in her honour.

Citizens participate not by title, but by contribution.

Throughout the Give 100 observance year, from International Day of Peace 2026 to International Day of Peace 2027, citizens across 100 Commonwealth Cities give in whatever form is honest to their means and their moment. There is no minimum. There is no hierarchy of contribution. What matters is that one gives — and that in giving, one becomes part of the Founding.

Citizens may also invite one person. That single act of invitation is how the observance travels — City by City, person by person — in the same spirit as the telegrams she sent, one by one, for 70 years.

The Charge in Practice

What May
Be Given

Give time. Give learning. Give advocacy.
Give resources. Give service. Give anything, in any measure, in her honour.

I Time

Hours of presence. Volunteer effort. The gift of attention and labour, offered in any organised form during the observance year.

II Learning

Knowledge shared. Skills transferred. Capacity built within communities and institutions toward the discipline of Preemptology.

III Advocacy

Voice lent. Platform offered. Discourse directed — in civic forums, in media, in professional networks — toward the recognition of preventive medicine as a formal discipline.

IV Resources

Material support in any form. Financial contribution is one expression of resource — neither its governing grammar nor its most consequential form. Any material gift, in any measure, is honoured.

V Service

Professional capability placed in service of the Founding. Medical skill, legal expertise, institutional knowledge — offered in organised form, toward a cause that will outlast the offering.

A person may give money. But money appears here as one possible form of resources — not the governing grammar of participation. Give in whatever form is honest to your means and your moment.

The Final Charge

The Sovereign Shield opens once.

The Commonwealth is invited once.

The question is only whether your City’s lamp is lit.

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