The Movement
People-led. 100 Commonwealth Cities. One observance year. A civic founding to establish the Institute of Preemptology and its Queen Elizabeth II Centre for Cervical Cancer Elimination 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. Across one observance year, in 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, carried by civic actors, and organised through Commonwealth cities.
Its premise is structural: the world has built vast systems for responding to disease, while prevention still lacks an equivalent centre of gravity. Give 100 exists to establish that centre through the Institute of Preemptology.
This is a civic founding with permanent institutional consequence. Its authority rests on constancy of presence — the same quiet force Queen Elizabeth II embodied across 70 years of service.
Her legacy belongs to those she served. 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 Commonwealth observance year.
A Civic Movement
For the first time, citizens across continents 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, with the 100 Founding Cities and the citizens who stand for them forming the civic foundation of the Institute.
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 — throughout the observance year.
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. Opened with the Commonwealth dawn. Sealed in Toronto. Built in Africa. The architecture of this founding is civic, continental, and structural.
Sydney is among the first Commonwealth cities to meet the dawn of the International Day of Peace — opening the observance on 21 September 2026. Toronto hosts the final Semidon on 21 September 2027, convening the 100 Founding LAMPs — 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 contain many prevention activities, but these are scattered across specialties, programmes, and agencies. Impact is diluted when responsibility is dispersed and no single discipline holds the whole.
Prevention needs a protected clinical home: a discipline with defined specialists, clear accountability, and responsibility across the full life course.
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.
The Institute of Preemptology gives prevention 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.
Countdown. Opening. Observance. Culmination.
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The Centenary · Countdown Begins
The 100th birthday of Queen Elizabeth II — the centenary she never reached
GiveHundred.org is unveiled and the five-month countdown begins. This is a period of mobilisation, not the opening of Semidons. City Champions are appointed across the 100 Commonwealth Cities, mayoral invitations are issued, the founding registry opens, and each City prepares its Opening Semidon.
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The Opening · International Day of Peace
Give 100 formally opens with an Opening Semidon in each of the 100 Commonwealth Cities
On the UN International Day of Peace, the observance opens across the Commonwealth. Each of the 100 Cities convenes its Opening Semidon and the Commonweal Candle is enkindled. The Sovereign Shield observance year begins; the first Semidons take place now, and none before.
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–The Observance Year · The Sovereign Shield
Each City aims to convene at least 100 additional Semidons during the observance year
Across the Sovereign Shield observance year, the 100 Cities carry the founding forward — convening Semidons in her honour and advancing the US$100 million for the founding of the Institute of Preemptology, including its Queen Elizabeth II Centre for Cervical Cancer Elimination.
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The Culmination · International Day of Peace
The Sovereign Shield culminates with the final Semidon in Toronto for the 100 Founding LAMPs
On the International Day of Peace, the final Semidon convenes in Toronto — the 100 Founding LAMPs, one drawn from each of the 100 Commonwealth Cities, gathering as the Sovereign Shield is fulfilled and the founding of the Institute of Preemptology and its Queen Elizabeth II Centre for Cervical Cancer Elimination is sealed.
The countdown begins with the Sovereign’s centenary; the observance opens 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.