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Happy holidays!
I’m Jane McGonigal. You may know me as the author of games and books like Reality Is Broken and SuperBetter. You may not know that I’m also a research director at Institute for the Future. And I’m on a quest this holiday season to raise funding for the Institute’s most inspiring program.
It’s called Future for Good, and I’m writing to invite you to support the program with a tax-deductible end-of-year gift.
Every year, IFTF selects six Future for Good Fellows to tackle the biggest challenges of the future. They’re real-world superheroes: practical visionaries who are working to create fresh, imaginative solutions to the very real and urgent futures we face.
The Future for Good Fellows each have their own unique superpower—but they also have one important thing in common: Whether neuroscientists, entrepreneurs, activists, or journalists, they are some of the most creative and boundary-pushing people you’ll ever meet. Make a tax-free gift now.
Every year, our six Future for Good Fellows come to IFTF to combine their superpowers. Over a four-month period each year, they create new visions of the future, and design new actions for the collective good. They have achieved wide recognition and helped inform policy at the highest levels, such as:
MILTON CHEN documented the innovations of extreme learners as a Future for Good Fellow and just won the President’s Prize at the NHK Japan Award Ceremony—the most prestigious international award for education.
NATALIE FOSTER, a co-founder of the Peers organization for on-demand workers, launched the Positive Platforms convening at IFTF this fall and was invited to bring those ideas to the White House Summit on Worker Voice.
ARIEL WALDMAN has worked as an independent scientist to organize Science Hack Days around the world and was honored by the White House Office of Science and Technology as a Citizen Science Champion of Change.
The Future for Good program is already having a big impact. But it needs more allies—like you. IFTF invests each year to create this superteam of explorers and inventors, but it needs your gift to help tap the imagination of the world’s most creative social problem-solvers.
Join us on this urgent adventure. Give today to the Future for Good.
See you in 2016!
Jane McGonigal
Director of Game Research + Development
Institute for the Future
Institute for the Future, founded in 1968, is an independent 501(c)(3) nonprofit research and consulting organization based in Palo Alto, California. IFTF explores a wide range of future possibilities, connecting humanity's biggest challenges with the greatest opportunities for transformation. We are living in a time of urgent futures—developments and opportunities with such extraordinary potential for changing the human landscape that we must pursue them now.