ABOUT US
Building a Culture of Care Together
We work to make care not only a personal responsibility, but a systemic value embedded in society. Through a new model of civil society organizing grounded in the ethics of care, we expand our collective imagination of care and bring together individuals, communities, and institutions to redesign alternative futures. By making invisible care work visible through research, data, and storytelling, we create new possibilities for connection, solidarity, and collective flourishing.
Mission & Vision
Shaping Today for the Future We Want to Live In
We seek to move care beyond the narrative of individual sacrifice and reposition it as essential social infrastructure at the heart of collective wellbeing. Drawing on solidarity, design, and technology, we develop new forms of living, working, and organizing that emerge from our shared care needs.
By recognizing and valuing invisible care work, supporting institutions to adopt more care-centered and equitable practices, and strengthening cultures of mutual support, we work toward a future where every person has access to safe, sustainable, and dignified networks of care.
Our Community
Meet the Co-Nurturers of İhtimam
We are a multidisciplinary community connected by a shared ethics of care. Together, we cultivate the İhtimam ecosystem by contributing our expertise, supporting one another’s wellbeing, and creating the conditions for collective learning and transformation.
Join the Care Network
Weaving Networks of Care Together
Practice Care in Everyday Life
Bring care into your daily habits and relationships. Share the restorative power of care generously with yourself and those around you.
Contribute to the Care Library
Share what care means to you, or contribute stories and experiences that inspire you. Together, we can expand our collective imagination of care.
Collaborate
With Us
Become a strategic partner in our institutional initiatives and help bring care-centered systemic change into your organization, or field of work.
Join the
Care CoP
Contribute your expertise, knowledge, wisdom, humor, joy and energy to our ecosystem and become part of the core community shaping the future of care.
Our Strategy
2026 Strategy
Our strategy outlines how we understand the role of care in social and institutional transformation, the operational model we are building, and the goals that guide our work in the years ahead. We invite you to explore our strategy and join us in creating a more caring future.