How Can I Get Involved with PSF?
There is a moment most people have at least once in their lives. You read something, watch something, or witness something — and you feel it. That quiet but insistent pull toward action. The sense that you could be doing more. That the world needs something from you specifically, and that you have been waiting too long to offer it. If you are reading this, you are probably having that moment right now. The good news is that getting involved with the Problem Solver Foundation does not require you to quit your job, move to a new city, or have a grand plan already figured out. It requires something simpler, and in many ways harder: the decision to start.
Start Where You Are
The first thing to understand about PSF is that involvement does not have a single shape. There is no standard entry point, no minimum qualification, no audition. Some people come to PSF with a specific problem they have been trying to solve for years — and they are looking for community, tools, and support to go further. Others arrive with energy and willingness, but without a clear direction yet. Both are welcome. Both are needed. PSF's approach begins with a simple question: what problems do you already care about?
Not the problems you think you should care about. Not the ones that sound impressive at dinner parties. The ones that actually keep you up at night. The ones you find yourself thinking about on your commute, in the shower, in the quiet moments between tasks.
That is your starting point. That is where your contribution lives.
Join the Community
At its core, PSF is a community — and communities grow one member at a time.
When you join PSF, you enter a network of people who share a fundamental orientation toward the world: that problems are not permanent, that solutions are possible, and that ordinary people have the capacity to create extraordinary change.
Inside that network, you will find people working across every sector imaginable — education, health, technology, environment, economics, arts, policy. What connects them is not their field. It is their commitment to engagement over indifference. Being part of this community means contributing your perspective, learning from others, and showing up — even when progress is slow, even when the path is unclear, even when the work is unglamorous.
Contribute Your Skills
Every problem solver brings something different to the table. And PSF is built on the understanding that diverse skills, applied toward meaningful problems, compound in ways that no single discipline ever could. Are you a designer? Help communicate complex ideas in ways that move people. Are you a developer? Build tools that give other problem solvers more leverage. Are you an educator? Create frameworks that help others think more clearly about the challenges they face. Are you a connector — someone who knows everyone and sees patterns across different worlds? That skill is rarer and more valuable than most people realize. There is no hierarchy of useful skills at PSF. There is only the question of how yours can be directed toward something that matters.
Support the Mission
Building a movement toward one billion problem solvers by 2035 takes more than goodwill. It takes resources — time, energy, and yes, financial support. If you believe in what PSF is building, one of the most direct ways to contribute is to help sustain it. That might mean becoming a regular supporter, funding a specific initiative, or helping connect PSF with organizations and individuals who share its values.
Every contribution — at every level — extends the reach of the work. It funds communities in places that need them most. It develops tools that make problem solvers more effective. It keeps the infrastructure of this movement alive and growing.
Bring PSF to Your World
Perhaps the most powerful thing you can do is not join PSF — it is bring PSF into the spaces you already occupy.
Talk about it with your colleagues. Introduce the ideas to your students. Share the mission with your network. Start a local chapter in your city. Propose a partnership with your organization. Movements do not scale from the center out. They scale from the edges in — through people who care enough to carry the idea into rooms where it has never been heard before. You are already in rooms that PSF has not reached yet. That is not a coincidence. That is an opportunity.
The Only Real Requirement
There are no perfect problem solvers. There are only people who decided to engage — imperfectly, persistently, and with genuine care for outcomes that matter.
If that describes you, or if it describes the person you want to become, then you are already most of the way there.
The rest is just showing up.
Ready to be part of the solution?
Join the PSF community and help solve the world's toughest challenges.
Written by
Haniel Rolemberg
