Host a Remaking Philanthropy Workshop Today How can you use foresight to gain insights that will enable you to make better, more impactful decisions today? Our Remaking Philanthropy Workshop will immerse your organization in the future and help you build new pathways toward greater resilience and innovation.
Our forecasting and facilitation can help your organization: • Think broadly to gain an “outside-in” perspective on long-term forces and trends shaping the future • Anticipate opportunities for new impact and service offerings • Gain agile positioning by questioning your assumptions and systematically considering alternative futures • Jump-start strategic thinking by immersing you in future possibilities and identifying flexible long-term actions
Philanthropy
• Prototype new offerings that leverage your expertise while aligning with the future
Sample Agenda
networked action for social impact
M orning S essio n
After n oon S ession
Envisioning the Future
Making the Future
Deep Dive into the Future of Philanthropy
Futures Bootcamp
IFTF researchers will give you a tour of the Future of Philanthropy map, unpacking the big future forces, supporting signals from the present, and provocative tensions relevant to your organization.
Think of this as a bootcamp for new ways to get things done in the next decade. Working in small groups and paired with experts, we will identify, experiment, and get our hands dirty with leading-edge tools for remaking social impact activity. Expect surprises and creative chaos in this immersive crash-course on the future of philanthropic experience.
Engaging the Second Curve We will bring in several of the most compelling and bright social innovators from our network to present and describe their projects, ethos, and methods in an interactive session to draw greater insights from on-the-ground stories of futures in action.
The Future of
Second-Curve Prototypes Working with creative future templates, we will make our scenarios come to life, and create, together with your team, an IFTF specialty: provocative artifacts-from-the-future based in 2019. These Second-Curve artifacts from the future will inform your strategy and action steps you can take today, as well as in the near future.
Envision. Align. Mobilize. The world is undergoing a massive transformation, with technologies enabling individuals and groups to accomplish the kinds of things previously possible only through large organizations or not at all. This transformation will disrupt many institutions, from governments to corporations to non-profits—and organized philanthropy will not be immune. Existing philanthropic organizations will face the challenge of envisioning a more open future, aligning their work with more impactful
Future of Philanthropy Team
innovations, and mobilizing society toward social good in the coming decade.
Marina Gorbis Executive Director
David Pescovitz Research Director
Bettina Warburg Public Foresight Strategist
mgorbis@iftf.org @mgorbis
dpescovitz@iftf.org
bwarburg@iftf.org @bwarburg
In order to develop this resilience, Institute for the Future (IFTF) has identified a set of future forces—disruptions that will transform our daily lives—that are dramatically reshaping the world of philanthropy. We know this research is revealing a whole new landscape of philanthropy that we are calling “second curve of philanthropy”. This map and IFTF’s processes can help keep your organization relevant and aligned with greater social impact in the new ecology of
About the Institute for the Future The Institute for the Future is an independent, non-profit research organization based in Silicon Valley, California. We have a 45-year track record of pioneering tools and methods for building foresight—indeed, we are the world’s first and oldest organization dedicated to bringing the skills and benefits of future forecasting to the public.
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Philanthropy
top down vs
Resource sharing community aiming to limit self-storage of products and reduce durable consumer goods people need to purchase.
Rally.org
emergent
do512blog.com
Actify—Wave of Action
Future Force
Indiegogo.com
Social enterprise dividing large projects into internet-based microwork opportunities for people living in poverty.
Choosing roles and tasks, and executing them—with little or no organizational structure—to innovate solutions.
Radical Transparency The exposure, intended or not, of all financial data, processes behind decisions, reputation evaluations, and metrics of success will disrupt traditional relationships between donors and beneficiaries.
Future Force
Oak Forest Library
Leaderless global community transforming inactive spaces into cultural centers for civic experimentation.
Using data streams and predictive analytics to coordinate and optimize how people, resources, and tasks are routed and utilized for maximum impact.
facebook.com/freespace.io
immediate
scale
speed
tempered vs
GiveDirectly Nonprofit organization offering unconditional cash transfers via mobile devices to people living in extreme poverty.
Donors Choose
[ freespace ]
Algorithmic Coordination
transformative
Future Force
Platform listing events and social activism activities for people around the world to protest corruption, rally around solutions, and take part in alternative systems. waveofaction.org
Ad-hocracy
Samasource
incremental vs
GiveDirectly
Motherboard.vice.com
Matternet
Utilizing a variety of non-traditional currencies, from Bitcoin and in-game credits to time or neighborhood “bucks,” as alternatives to centralized legal tender.
i m pa c t
Storytelling platform for individuals and organizations to fundraise for causes through the crowd.
Flexible and lightweight drone transportation network piloted in extreme environments for disaster relief and in-time resource coordination.
Mobile technology platform rewarding emerging market users with mobile airtime for engaging with brands, surveys, and research.
Yerdle
Multi-currency
Rally.org
Leveraging robust online platforms for collection and aggregation of all kinds of resources—from money to brainpower to surplus goods —for creating value.
Jana
participatory
Future Force
Crowdpower
tacit
e27.co
Governance
Rolling Jubilee
process
deliberate vs
explicit vs
Future Force
Rolling Jubilee Anonymous forgiveness of debt bought on the secondary market through crowd-sourced funds.
ME T RICS
Future Forces in
This map will orient you to the future forces dramatically reshaping philanthropy. Surrounding the future forces are signals: present-day examples that serve as signposts pointing toward the future. The IFTF Philanthropy Team can help you develop the foresight to understand the future forces and to draw out the insights and actions that will keep your organization relevant in the coming decade.
one vs
multiple
Platform designed to allow individuals to donate directly to public school classroom projects.
Host a Remaking Philanthropy Workshop Today How can you use foresight to gain insights that will enable you to make better, more impactful decisions today? Our Remaking Philanthropy Workshop will immerse your organization in the future and help you build new pathways toward greater resilience and innovation.
Our forecasting and facilitation can help your organization: • Think broadly to gain an “outside-in” perspective on long-term forces and trends shaping the future • Anticipate opportunities for new impact and service offerings • Gain agile positioning by questioning your assumptions and systematically considering alternative futures • Jump-start strategic thinking by immersing you in future possibilities and identifying flexible long-term actions
Philanthropy
• Prototype new offerings that leverage your expertise while aligning with the future
Sample Agenda
networked action for social impact
M orning S essio n
After n oon S ession
Envisioning the Future
Making the Future
Deep Dive into the Future of Philanthropy
Futures Bootcamp
IFTF researchers will give you a tour of the Future of Philanthropy map, unpacking the big future forces, supporting signals from the present, and provocative tensions relevant to your organization.
Think of this as a bootcamp for new ways to get things done in the next decade. Working in small groups and paired with experts, we will identify, experiment, and get our hands dirty with leading-edge tools for remaking social impact activity. Expect surprises and creative chaos in this immersive crash-course on the future of philanthropic experience.
Engaging the Second Curve We will bring in several of the most compelling and bright social innovators from our network to present and describe their projects, ethos, and methods in an interactive session to draw greater insights from on-the-ground stories of futures in action.
The Future of
Second-Curve Prototypes Working with creative future templates, we will make our scenarios come to life, and create, together with your team, an IFTF specialty: provocative artifacts-from-the-future based in 2019. These Second-Curve artifacts from the future will inform your strategy and action steps you can take today, as well as in the near future.
Envision. Align. Mobilize. The world is undergoing a massive transformation, with technologies enabling individuals and groups to accomplish the kinds of things previously possible only through large organizations or not at all. This transformation will disrupt many institutions, from governments to corporations to non-profits—and organized philanthropy will not be immune. Existing philanthropic organizations will face the challenge of envisioning a more open future, aligning their work with more impactful
Future of Philanthropy Team
innovations, and mobilizing society toward social good in the coming decade.
Marina Gorbis Executive Director
David Pescovitz Research Director
Bettina Warburg Public Foresight Strategist
mgorbis@iftf.org @mgorbis
dpescovitz@iftf.org
bwarburg@iftf.org @bwarburg
In order to develop this resilience, Institute for the Future (IFTF) has identified a set of future forces—disruptions that will transform our daily lives—that are dramatically reshaping the world of philanthropy. We know this research is revealing a whole new landscape of philanthropy that we are calling “second curve of philanthropy”. This map and IFTF’s processes can help keep your organization relevant and aligned with greater social impact in the new ecology of
About the Institute for the Future The Institute for the Future is an independent, non-profit research organization based in Silicon Valley, California. We have a 45-year track record of pioneering tools and methods for building foresight—indeed, we are the world’s first and oldest organization dedicated to bringing the skills and benefits of future forecasting to the public.
philanthropy in the coming decade. 201 Hamilton Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 94301 650-854-6322 | www.iftf.org
@iftf © 2014 Institute for the Future. All rights reserved. All brands and trademarks remain the property of their respective owners. Reproduction is prohibited without written consent. SR-1722