The Nine Categories
One hundred seats, filled in order by published data — each city counted once. In the Inaugural Year, 2027, Givingtide initiates the founding of Chapters in one hundred cities. The hundred are chosen in nine categories by published data, applied in the order given: each city is counted once, and a category runs down its ranking until it holds its number of cities not already seated, so that a city carries the title of the category that seated it. For a nation-level category the seat is the nation’s most populous city; where that city is already seated, its capital; where both are seated, the seat passes to the next nation in the ranking. The Hundred Invited Cities are distinguished only by their invitation. From 1 January 2027 any city in the world may apply, every city passes the same readiness gate on the same terms, and any city that constitutes its Chapter during 2027 is an Inaugural City, invited or not. The work in each city is the same: to constitute a Give 100 Chapter and to establish the Three Instruments of Peace—GIVA, Preemptology and the Centory—in the International Decade of Strengthening of Peace for Future Generations, 2027–2036.The lists below reproduce Schedule B of the Give 100 Charter, computed on 19 September 2026 from the tables then current. Where Schedule B itself marks a dataset or computation provisional, that status is retained here.
A city marked † may apply under the Charter when a Chapter can be constituted there.
I
The Megacities
10 Seats
II
The Cities of First Claim
10 Seats
III
The Cities of Enterprise
10 Seats
IV
The Cities of Learning
20 Seats
V
The Cities of the Giving Nations
10 Seats
VI
The Cities of Inclusion
10 Seats
VII
The Cities of the Generous Citizens
10 Seats
VIII
The Sentinel Cities
10 Seats
IX
The Cities of the Full Life
10 Seats
The Chapter at Enugu, as the seat of the Institute of Preemptology, is founded without invitation and stands outside the Hundred Invited Cities. It does not consume one of the one hundred invited seats.
How the Hundred Works
The Hundred Invited Cities are a constitutional instrument, and six distinctions govern how the register is read. Each rests on the Charter.
The Three Instruments of Peace—GIVA, Preemptology and the Centory—are installed together at the Global Founding Semidon, convened at the International Headquarters in Oslo on Founding GoodTuesday, the Day of Account and the International Day of Peace, 21 September 2027; the Institute’s own founding semidon is convened at Enugu the same day. A semidon is a cause-seeding gathering, convened to awaken, organise or multiply support for a worthy cause.
Invitation, not monopoly The same gate for every city Invitation
The Hundred Invited Cities are distinguished by one thing only: they are invited. From 1 January 2027 any city in the world may apply, and every city passes the same gate on the same terms. A standing admissions panel, constituted at the opening of the Inaugural Year, applies the published conditions and hears the contested cases that reach Givingtide International. Invitation confers no constitutional status and no precedence.
Nine categories, one count How the hundred are chosen Count
Each city is counted once. The nine categories are applied in the order given, and a category runs down its ranking until it holds its number of cities not already seated, so that a city carries the title of the category that seated it and not every category for which it would qualify. For a nation-level category the seat is the nation’s most populous city; where that city is already seated, its capital; where both are seated, the seat passes to the next nation in the ranking. The rule is mechanical, and no seat rests on a judgement about which city deserves it. Cities and nations already seated are shown in brackets in their true ranking positions, a ranking stripped of them being a misdescription of the standing of the rest.
The Readiness Gate Five published conditions Gate
A city constitutes when it meets the published conditions: a Founding Commission in place; a registered address and the constitutional instruments settled; five Centorians elected and approved, being the number that constitutes a Centory; not fewer than twenty registered GIVAs; and one semidon convened. Cities pass at their own pace, and the conditions are the same for an invited city and for one that comes forward on its own application.
Inaugural City is the 2027 status What constituting confers Status
A city becomes an Inaugural City by constituting its Chapter during 2027, whether it was among the Hundred Invited Cities or came forward on its own application. Appearance in the register confers nothing by itself. The Decade opens and registration opens on 1 January 2027; Givingtide Day falls on 11 January; Founding GoodTuesday, the Day of Account and the International Day of Peace, falls on 21 September; the Founding Hundred Days run from 22 September to 30 December; and on 31 December 2027 the Founding Year closes and Inaugural City status closes with it.
Enugu stands outside the Hundred Seat of the Institute Enugu
The Chapter at Enugu, as the seat of the Institute of Preemptology, is founded without invitation and stands outside the Hundred Invited Cities, consuming none of the one hundred invited seats. Its first Founding Commissioners and City Centory Curators were appointed on 21 September 2026, in the sitting at which the Charter was adopted, and begin work on 1 January 2027.
Every city is the horizon Three numbers of the Decade Horizon
Three numbers state the ambition. In every year of the Decade, Givingtide seeks to initiate the formation of Chapters in one hundred cities, by the appointment of Founding Commissioners and City Centory Curators, each year’s hundred drawn by the same nine categories running down their rankings past cities already founded, together with the cities that have applied; and Givingtide seeks the constitution of twenty Chapters in every year, the year’s count being announced on the Day of Account with the count of semidons. Every city on earth is the horizon. The Hundred Invited Cities of 2027 are an inaugural invitation and not a ceiling.
One hundred cities receive the inaugural invitation. From 1 January 2027 every city in the world may apply, and all pass the same readiness gate on the same terms; every city that constitutes its Chapter during the Inaugural Year is an Inaugural City. Every city on earth is the horizon.
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