Where people, ideas, and capital converge for impact
KLBRTF World
The Foundation for Collaborative Impact
KLBRTF is a mission-led organization advancing wellbeing-centred impact for people, planet, and future generations.
We work across sectors and geographies to co-create with communities, designing, testing, and scaling initiatives that prioritise wellbeing, equity, and long-term impact.
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What Is KLBRTF?
Our name speaks volumes. KLBRTF is pronounced Collaborative, condensed into the essence of what makes collaboration happen, and flourish. KLBRTF is The Foundation for Collaborative Impact.
Rooted in experience. Designed for what’s next.
OUR STORY
KLBRTF is a mission-driven platform for collaboration where ideas, capital, and communities come together to address complex social, economic, and planetary challenges.
KLBRTF builds on over a decade of ecosystem-building work through Impact Hub Kuala Lumpur, and more than 100 years of collective impact experience from its founding team.
Over the past ten years, we have worked alongside entrepreneurs, institutions, communities, and partners to empower individuals, support impactful enterprises, and nurture inclusive communities.
This chapter marks a conscious transition - honouring what has been built, while creating space for what is emerging.
Why Now?
We are entering a moment shaped by profound shifts:
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- a growing global trust deficit
- changing power dynamics affecting humanity and nature
- rapid technological acceleration, including artificial intelligence
- and a renewed call to return to our humanity, wisdom, and ancestral intelligence
KLBRTF emerges in response to these challenges and opportunities - creating platforms for collaboration, learning, and collective action.
KLBRTF: “Kickstart Livelihoods, Build Resilience, Transform Futures.”
Our Vision and Mission Statement
Our Vision: A world where collaboration becomes the foundation for wellbeing, resilience, and shared futures.
Our Mission: To kickstart livelihoods, build resilience, and transform futures by enabling trust-based collaboration across people, capital, and ideas
Our Pillars for
Collaborative Impact
KLBRTF works with Kollaborators - changemakers, partners and champions aligned with our purpose and values.
We prioritise long-term relationships, shared ownership, and collective outcomes over short-term transactions.
KLBRTF Experiences
Our convenings, summits, gatherings, and immersions engine that fosters dialogue, learning, and connection - turning ideas into shared action.
KLBRTF Labs
​Our “collaboratory” and engine for innovation, experimentation, and systems change. We bring together partners across corporate, startup, community, and institutional ecosystems.
KLBRTF Capital
Our engine for joint fundraising and innovative financing models to support both KLBRTF initiatives and our Kollaborators.
The Work that Shaped Us.
Ten Years of Learning, Building and Impact
Programmes and Initiatives co-created with changemakers, communities and partners
 Together We Can! |  Climate Solutions Lab |  Human Library |
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 MY x Change Dialogue Series |  ASEAN Impact Challenge |  Cartier Women's Initiative |
 VIP FellowshipVolunteering for International Professionals (VIP) |  Hearth Summit Malaysia |  Garden of Opportunities |
 Majalah Didik |  Investment Readiness Programme |  GRACE PilotGreening Aquaculture MSMEs through Circular Economy (GRACE) pilot project |
 Design For Change |
Those We've Built With
