Committed to our global environment, we have a special focus on the air we breathe
Global warming is exacerbating air pollution and vice versa, creating a dangerous cycle that impacts human health and the planet. Climate change is intensifying wildfires and altering weather patterns, leading to more severe air pollution episodes. This, in turn, contributes to further climate change through the release of pollutants and greenhouse gasses.
Next Breath is a charity that aims to foster advances in the cleaning of air. The organization especially serves to help the 1.6 billion children who are at the greatest health risk due to dirty air. Led by Lorie Karnath, founding editor of Molecular Frontiers Journal, and Xaviere Masson founding director of the World Frontiers Forum, Next Breath is collaborating with other nonprofit and for-profit organizations to provide educational tools as well as to bring simple and accessible non-therapeutic means of cleaner air to the kids who need them most.
Around 1 billion children are today in multidimensional poverty. Polluted air and the Covid-19 pandemic have made their breaths precarious. They need our help. We are committed to bettering the lives of children by improving the air they breathe. Next Breath operates exclusively for charitable, benevolent, and educational purposes within the meaning of section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. The purposes of this corporation include promoting global health and hygiene through education, advocacy, and in particular, fostering access to protection against respiratory disease for school-age children and their learning environments around the world, by providing technology, information and resources, fundraising and making grants consistent with the corporation’s charitable mission.
Congratulations to Pr Omar Yaghi who was awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, shared with Richard Robson and Susumu Kitagawa, for the development of metal–organic frameworks.
Here is a link to an interview conducted by our co-founder and president, Dr. Lorie Karnath for the Molecular Frontiers Journal work.
Also a photo taken at UC Berkeley with our President Lorie Karnath, and students during our 2023 Conference focused on the nature of Water.
Next Breath Student Competition: Winners announced
From Water to Air; Student Solutions for a Clearer, Cleaner, Future
The best way to help ensure a sustainable pathway forward is to be part of the solution.
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you can also mail your donation to:
Next Breath
18 Bow Street, #273
Somerville, MA 02143