Global innovation & impact platform

Which initiative can permanently change the system?

Seven answers we are working on

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Initiative Health

AI-enabled healthcare systems.

A doctor and nurse reviewing a case together in a hospital
A clinician and patient looking at records on a tablet
A clinician showing test results to a patient on a tablet

By the numbers

7

Initiatives live

2026

Year established

3

Clients served

3

Regions served

Africa · Europe · USA

What TGIF is

We design, convene, and scale high-impact initiatives.

Tamegue Global Initiative Foundation is a global innovation and impact platform. We take on the challenges that matter most to humanity and work them through technology, strategic partnerships, and sustainable development.

Most foundations organise around sectors. Sectors describe how institutions are built. They do not describe how problems actually behave. A child locked out of a clinic is also locked out of a classroom, a job market, and a food system.

So we organise around initiatives instead. An initiative crosses whatever lines it has to cross to move the outcome. Seven of them are live. Each carries its own advisory council, its own partners, its own funding, and its own published results.

The TGIF model

Sectors describe institutions. Initiatives describe outcomes.

The difference is not a naming exercise. It changes who sits on the council, where the money comes from, and what counts as finished.

The usual structure

Organised by sector

Each department owns a slice. Problems that sit between slices belong to nobody.

Health department
Education department
Agriculture department
Technology department
Environment department

The index

Seven initiatives

Open any one to see how it is built. Every initiative carries the same four-part record, so a funder can compare them on the same terms.

Why TGIF

Eight disciplines, one table

Cross-sector work fails when nobody in the room can speak all the languages involved. Very few nonprofit founders combine this range, and it is the reason TGIF can hold an initiative together end to end rather than handing it off.

Healthcare interoperability
Artificial intelligence
Cloud infrastructure
Cybersecurity
One initiative,
held end to end
Design · Convene · Scale
Government technology
International development
Diaspora engagement
Entrepreneurship

Leadership

Who carries the work

Jules Pericles Tamegue, Chair & Chief Executive Officer

Chair & Chief Executive Officer

Jules Pericles Tamegue

Chair and Chief Executive Officer of TGIF, and Founder and Managing Director of JT Holdings Group LLC — a U.S.-based technology, infrastructure and strategic advisory company working across the United States and Africa.

Chrystelle Tamegue, Chief Operating Officer

Chief Operating Officer

Chrystelle Tamegue

Brings more than 14 years of project and programme management and technology experience to the nonprofit sector, and runs the operating side of every initiative.

Patience Emeni, Board of Directors

Board of Directors

Patience Emeni

An international development consultant with expertise in stakeholder engagement, government relations and business development, providing strategic leadership at Mhealth4Africa.

Eitel Batet, Board of Directors

Board of Directors

Eitel Batet

A technology enthusiast with hands-on experience across IT networking, QA testing, front-end development and customer service, and the founder of Iterate LLC.

Convene with us

Bring us an initiative

We work with governments, health systems, funders, universities, technology partners, and diaspora networks. Tell us the outcome you want to move and which of the seven it sits closest to.

If it does not fit any of them cleanly, that is often the more interesting conversation.

Guided intake

Tell us what you are bringing

Nine short steps. You are only asked the questions that apply to the path you pick, so a media request never sees a procurement question and a funder never sees a speaker brief.

  • 6–10minutes
  • 9steps
  • Savedas you go

Start from where you are

Start the guided intake

Not sure which path fits? Start anyway — the first step has a short helper that points you at the closest one. Your answers stay in your browser until you submit them.