About

The Foundation for American Innovation champions the technology, talent, and ideas essential to American prosperity, security, and flourishing.

FAI was founded with a unique vision: Advance a more perfect union between technology and the American republic. We are a collection of builders, hackers, policy wonks, and founders; our work is rooted in an optimistic vision for the future, one in which our technologies align to serve human ends–strong institutions, economic prosperity, and robust national security–not the other way around.

Realizing this future requires far tighter coupling between innovators and policymakers than exists today. FAI works to make that possible. We help policymakers become more effective stewards of innovation, and we equip technologists and founders to better understand, engage with, and ultimately improve the machinery of governance. Our work spans the domains most critical to the vitality of the American republic: artificial intelligence; governance and state capacity; energy and infrastructure; technology and telecommunications; science and innovation; defense and national security; and education.

Our outputs span impact-driven research, sharp commentary, legislative engagement, and technical tools that translate ideas into practice. We convene policymakers, technologists, and civil society leaders through events in major tech hubs across the country. And we run talent-development programs to ensure the next generation of public leaders has the domain expertise required to govern in a digital era.

The Foundation for American Innovation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, established in Silicon Valley in 2014 as Lincoln Labs. Today, we are a national organization with primary offices in Washington, D.C.

Our major supporters have included the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, the Diana Davis Spencer Foundation, the Walton Family Foundation, the Sarah Scaife Foundation, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, Arnold Ventures, the Arthur N. Rupe Foundation, the Miles Foundation, the Stand Together Trust, the Beth and Ravenel Curry Foundation, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, the Searle Freedom Trust, the Silicon Valley Community Foundation, the Ethereum Foundation, the Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web, the Proton Foundation, and many others.

If you would like to support our work, please consider donating here.