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My take on the future
Season's Greetings!
I'm Milton Chen, and I've had a long career opening the doors of learning to children through programs and platforms like Sesame Street from Sesame Workshop in New York, KQED's educational services here in the Bay Area, and Edutopia.org, produced by the George Lucas Educational Foundation. Now I'm asking you to help me open another door—the door to a Future for Good.
Please join me in supporting IFTF's 2016 Future for Good family with a tax-free, end-of-year gift.
Three years ago, I had the opportunity to join the inaugural class for IFTF's Future for Good Fellows—six smart, committed, and self-directed social inventors all working creatively to make a Future for Good. Each year since then, IFTF has become a home to six more of these visionary change-makers. IFTF invests in each of us—in our individual visions. But it needs your help to bring those visions to life. Will you invest, too?
Please sponsor a 2016 Future for Good Fellow.
My own vision of a Future for Good is all about ED-YOU-CATION. It's about putting every young person and every adult at the center of their own learning ecosystem, powering their own learning using technology and social networks to create learning communities. I brought this vision into focus through my Future for Good fellowship by recording the stories of extreme learners, as you can see in this video:
Other Future for Good fellows have tackled all kinds of urgent futures, from human rights and the future of organized crime to sustainable food systems and portable benefits for on-demand workers. The Future for Goodfellowship not only gives us the opportunity to work on our individual passions--it also gives us the skills to project those passions into a future that can be better for everyone.
Open the door to the next class of Future for Good Fellows with your gift.
And have a great 2016!
Milton Chen
2013 Future for Good Fellow
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.