Founder and CEO Dr. Mollie Marti started the grassroots resilience work in 2011 in her Iowa community with the aim of stopping an active suicide contagion that resulted in the loss of several young lives. As word of her local efforts got out, requests for help from other communities came pouring in. So, Mollie established the nonprofit National Resilience Institute (NRI) which later transformed into Worldmaker International, with a mission to help individuals and communities build their capacity to prepare for, adapt to and grow through adversity.