The Ralston Semler Foundation is the mentor and catalyst for educational, cultural, environmental and strategic projects. It conceives, projects and implements them from a self-sustaining standpoint. It currently works on four different but synergistic fronts:
Lumiar Institute – democratic education at two schools (São Paulo and Campos do Jordão).
DNA Brazil Institute – a think-tank that promotes strategic studies for Brazil.
Habitat dos Mellos (Mellos’ Habitat) – a social, cultural and environmental project.
Festival dos Mellos (Mellos’ Festival) – a multi-cultural festival.
Lumiar Institute
Mellos’ Habitat
The Lumiar Institute is a centre for studies holding debates, research and reflections on democratic education during childhood and adolescence.
The intention here is to create a model that can be easily replicated of what the “first world” would be like when adapted to the Brazilian reality, based on which the Ralston Semler Foundation developed the Mellos’ Habitat.
Thinking about and rethinking the country’s vocation. Illuminate the main strategic issues for Brazilian development. Create a forum of the best minds in the country on an interdisciplinary and unique basis. This is the mission of the DNA Brazil Institute.
A multi-cultural festival with debates, music, dance and theater at the Mellos’ Festival, which is held in the Mellos district (Campos do Jordão) and in the neighboring cities of Santo Antônio do Pinhal and São Bento do Sapucaí.
