The Why Foundation is a nonprofit organization based in Copenhagen that produces and distributes social justice–oriented documentary films world-wide.
[1][2][3] It was founded the name Steps International by Nick Fraser and Mette Hoffmann Meyer[4] in 2004 and renamed in 2014.
[7] The foundation also organizes screenings for schoolkids around the world, showing its films dubbed or subtitled in local languages.
[8][9] From 2004 the foundation was headed by CEO Don Edkins, he was succeeded by Danish documentary filmmaker Christoffer Guldbrandsen [da] in 2014.
[4] In 2013 the foundation won a Peabody award, under its former name, Steps International, for its series Why Poverty?