The Movement
People-led. 100 cities. 100 days. A civic founding to establish the Institute of Preemptology and its Queen Elizabeth II Centre in honour of the centenary she never reached.
A People’s Observance. A Civic Act.
Give 100 is a citizen-led Commonwealth founding observance. It is initiated, carried, and owned by those she served. For 100 days, across 100 cities on six continents, citizens give in her honour.
They offer time, learning, advocacy, resources, or service in any measure. The occasion is the centenary Queen Elizabeth II never reached. The purpose is permanent: to found the Institute of Preemptology and its Queen Elizabeth II Centre for Cervical Cancer Elimination.
Give 100 is a citizen-led observance — constituted by individuals, not states; carried by civic actors, not multilateral machinery — whose participants have concluded that the architecture of global health has a foundational flaw and are willing to act to correct it.
The flaw is structural. The world has built vast architectures to respond to disease but left prevention without an equivalent centre of gravity. Give 100 exists to establish that foundation.
This is a civic founding with permanent institutional consequence. Its authority is the same she exercised for 70 years: constancy of presence.
Her legacy belongs to those she served — not merely to the institutions that survived her. Give 100 is the people’s answer to the centenary she never reached.
The Rule of 100
Every element of this founding carries the number 100. The logic is one of reciprocity — a gesture returned. Queen Elizabeth II sent more than 100,000 birthday telegrams across 70 years. Give 100 returns that gesture, city by city, across a period of 100 days.
A Civic Movement
For the first time, citizens across continents — without governmental initiation — are acting in concert to build a permanent medical institution and establish a new clinical discipline.
Give 100 is carried by its participants. The physician-co-founders of preemptology spent two decades working toward making prevention universally accessible. The Sovereign Shield is the capital architecture through which that founding is secured. But the founders of the Institute itself are the 100 Founding Cities and the citizens who stand for them.
The movement operates through three levels of civic participation — each distinct, each essential. Citizens give in any measure. Cities provide their civic anchor. Champions activate and propagate.
Each of the 100 Founding Cities provides a civic anchor — a jurisdiction whose participation is formally recorded as part of the founding architecture.
Across 100 cities, citizens give time, learning, advocacy, resources, or service — in any measure, in her honour — during the 100-day observance.
Corporate, Civic, and Academic Champions propagate the observance, enkindle the Commonweal Candle, and convene civic gatherings within their jurisdictions.
Six Continents · One Commonwealth
The Commonwealth was the primary expression of the Queen’s upstream philosophy — a voluntary association held together by long investment, patient relationship-building, and the conviction that the work done before crisis is the work that matters. Give 100 begins there.
Africa Open Cities
- AbujaNigeria
- AccraGhana
- BanjulThe Gambia
- Cape TownSouth Africa
- Dar es Salaam · DodomaTanzania
- DurbanSouth Africa
- EnuguNigeria
- FreetownSierra Leone
- GaboroneBotswana
- JohannesburgSouth Africa
- KampalaUganda
- KigaliRwanda
- KumasiGhana
- LagosNigeria
- LibrevilleGabon
- LilongweMalawi
- LoméTogo
- LusakaZambia
- MaputoMozambique
- MaseruLesotho
- MbabaneEswatini
- NairobiKenya
- Port HarcourtNigeria
- Port LouisMauritius
- PretoriaSouth Africa
- VictoriaSeychelles
- WindhoekNamibia
- YaoundéCameroon
America (North) Open Cities
- BasseterreSt Kitts & Nevis
- BelmopanBelize
- BridgetownBarbados
- CalgaryCanada
- CastriesSt Lucia
- EdmontonCanada
- KingstonJamaica
- KingstownSt Vincent & Grenadines
- MontréalCanada
- NassauBahamas
- OttawaCanada
- Port of SpainTrinidad & Tobago
- RoseauDominica
- St George’sGrenada
- St John’sAntigua & Barbuda
- TorontoCanada
- VancouverCanada
America (South) Open Cities
- GeorgetownGuyana
Asia Open Cities
- Bandar Seri BegawanBrunei
- BangaloreIndia
- ChennaiIndia
- ChittagongBangladesh
- ColomboSri Lanka
- DhakaBangladesh
- HyderabadIndia
- IslamabadPakistan
- KarachiPakistan
- KolkataIndia
- Kuala LumpurMalaysia
- LahorePakistan
- MaléMaldives
- MumbaiIndia
- New DelhiIndia
- PenangMalaysia
- PutrajayaMalaysia
- SingaporeSingapore
- Sri J. KotteSri Lanka
Europe Open Cities
- BelfastUK
- BirminghamUK
- BristolUK
- CambridgeUK
- CanterburyUK
- CardiffUK
- EdinburghUK
- GlasgowUK
- LeedsUK
- LiverpoolUK
- LondonUK
- ManchesterUK
- NewcastleUK
- NicosiaCyprus
- OxfordUK
- SheffieldUK
- VallettaMalta
Oceania Open Cities
- AdelaideAustralia
- ApiaSamoa
- AucklandNew Zealand
- BrisbaneAustralia
- ChristchurchNew Zealand
- DunedinNew Zealand
- FunafutiTuvalu
- HoniaraSolomon Islands
- MelbourneAustralia
- NukuʻalofaTonga
- PerthAustralia
- Port MoresbyPapua New Guinea
- Port VilaVanuatu
- South TarawaKiribati
- SuvaFiji
- SydneyAustralia
- WellingtonNew Zealand
- YarenNauru
Born in Europe. Ignited in Asia-Pacific. Completed in North America. Built in Africa. The architecture of this founding is not ceremonial — it is structural.
Sydney leads the ignition on 13 June 2026 — first Commonwealth city to meet the centenary dawn. Toronto convenes the 100 Founding LAMPs on 21 September 2026 — one of the world’s most culturally diverse cities, a miniature Commonwealth where every nation shares a neighbourhood.
Why This Movement Exists
The machinery of cure is vast. Prevention is fragmented. Give 100 exists to establish the institution that will correct this — permanently.
Health systems do not lack prevention — they fragment it across specialties, programmes, and agencies. Impact is diluted. Accountability disappears. When no one owns the whole, prevention fails the people it is meant to protect.
There is no clinical discipline whose sole, protected mandate is to prevent disease across the full life course. No dedicated specialist. No defined accountability. Prevention remains a task distributed among those whose primary job is something else.
Give 100 exists to establish the Institute of Preemptology — the institution that assigns ownership of prevention, permanently, at scale. This is the civic rationale for the movement. The full disciplinary case is made elsewhere.
Prevention fails because no one owns it. The Institute of Preemptology assigns that ownership — permanently, measurably, and at scale.
What the Movement Builds
Give 100 establishes a permanent institution — one that creates a new clinical discipline, and its flagship bearing the name of the Queen whose legacy it honours.
The world’s first institute dedicated exclusively to the prevention of disease — establishing preemptology as a recognised clinical discipline with defined faculty, curriculum, and field delivery. The Institute assigns to medicine the upstream accountability that prevention has never had.
The Institute’s flagship programme — bearing the name of the monarch whose seven decades of patronage made her an emblem of the long-horizon institutional commitment that cervical cancer elimination requires. An entirely preventable cancer should not kill 350,000 women annually.
Three Dates. One Founding.
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The Centenary
The 100th birthday of Queen Elizabeth II — the centenary she never reached
City Champions are appointed across all 100 Founding Cities. Mayoral invitations are issued. The founding registry opens. GiveHundred.org goes live at midnight.
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The Ignition
Give 100 opens across the Commonwealth — at 10:00 local time, led by Sydney
The Official Birthday of the Sovereign — the Second Saturday in June. Sydney, as the first Commonwealth city to meet the centenary dawn, ignites the observance. The Commonweal Candle is lit across the 100 Founding Cities. The 100 days begin.
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The Founding
The 100 Founding LAMPs convene in Toronto. The Sovereign Shield closes. The Institute of Preemptology is established.
The UN International Day of Peace. The 100 Founding LAMPs, drawn from the 100 Founding Cities, convene in Toronto as the $100 million Sovereign Shield closes and the Institute of Preemptology and its Queen Elizabeth II Centre for Cervical Cancer Elimination are inaugurated.
The observance begins with the Sovereign and closes with Peace. Between them lies the work of preemption.
The Three Champions
Each city’s Century is structured around 100 named participants, led by three Champions — crown, town and gown. The Civic Champion hosts; the Corporate Champion convenes; the Academic Champion frames.
The Century deliberately reenacts the crown–town–gown civic order embodied in Queen Elizabeth II’s public hosting. In that tradition, civic legitimacy was conferred through welcome, presence and patronage: worthy causes were received by a host — the crown; advanced by their principal supporters — the town; and given purpose by the visionaries — the gown — who supplied their intellectual and institutional form.
Give 100 reconvenes that tradition — once, in the centenary year, across the Commonwealth.
The Century is convened once. The honour endures.
The Civic Champion is the host of the Century. She — and it is most often a she — embodies the Queen Elizabeth prototype: a leader of civic life who gives a worthy cause the dignity of her welcome and the weight of her presence. She is typically the leader of the city’s most influential women’s organisation, or the chair of a widely respected philanthropic foundation or civic body.
She does what the Queen did at Buckingham Palace: she opens the door.
The Corporate Champion convenes the Century. He or she is typically the elected Chair of the city’s pre-eminent Chamber of Commerce — the voice of its business community and the anchor of its enterprise leadership. The Corporate Champion brings the city’s institutional weight to the founding act.
The Century is convened once. The honour endures.
The Academic Champion frames the Century. This role is held by the physician-trustee of Givingtide International, the institutional steward of Give 100, who provides the intellectual and clinical foundation for the establishment of the Institute of Preemptology and its Queen Elizabeth II Centre for Cervical Cancer Elimination. Where possible, a reputable academic based in the city is invited to co-champion — bringing local scholarly authority to a global founding act.
A LAMP is the Lead Anchor Municipal Philanthropist: the city’s principal philanthropic honouree in the centenary year, recognised for exemplary generosity and deep social compassion.
Enter the Founding
Enter the discipline, the flagship, the full constitutional guide, and the case for participation. This is the point of entry.