Our Mission
The Logical Foundation’s mission is to End Poverty and Distribute Prosperity with Universal Basic Income.
Our Story
Imagine a world where everyone has the freedom and dignity to pursue their dreams, free from the fear of poverty. That’s the world we want to create at The Logical Foundation.
We are a team of passionate and visionary individuals who believe in the power of basic income to transform lives. Basic income is a simple idea: give people cash, no strings attached, and let them decide how to use it. It’s a disruptive technology for helping people, as evidenced by over three hundred rigorous studies that show its positive impacts on nutrition, education, income, health, and many other outcomes.
We started The Logical Foundation in 2022 after our founder, Michael Simm, realized that the unparalleled power of basic income could change the world. He sought advice from nonprofit and business professionals such as Stuart Turgel, Rodney Houston, Carol Farabee, and Andrew Simm, and from passionate community members with lived experience like Gareth Gilsdorf. Together, they designed a system to unleash the disruptive potential of basic income across the nonprofit sector without relying on unpredictable government action.
We launched the most cost-effective anti-poverty program ever run in Arizona in 2024, providing basic income to homeless Arizonans who used it to get off the streets. We are expanding our program for bigger effects and better scalability.
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