December 2025 - The Future is Restorative
Dec 11, 2025
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The Future is RestorativeDecember 2025FutureGood is a consultancy focused on helping visionary leaders build a better future. Through DEI consulting, strategic visioning, keynotes, retreats, and online learning, FutureGood helps thought leaders (like you!) to deploy futurism. |
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We’re thrilled to welcome Jen Mayer to FutureGood as a Visioning Strategist. Jen helps leaders and teams deepen connection, strengthen alignment, and turn bold ideas into action. With extensive experience in coaching, facilitation, and systems-change work, she has guided organizations across philanthropy, healthcare, tech, and media. We’re excited to bring her insight, creativity, and leadership to our clients and the futures we are shaping together. |
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FutureGood Friends and Clients in the News |
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Jess Solomon, FutureGood Studio alum, has been selected for the 2025–26 CLLCTIVLY Drs. Elmer & Joanne Martin Social Impact Fellowship. She’s using this opportunity to develop a new project that brings together Baltimore comedians, organizers, and public health researchers to shift harmful narratives about the city through humor. |
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Janiece Evans-Page, the chief executive officer of Tides, calls out the escalating attacks on Black philanthropy on Essence.com, underscoring a simple truth: strengthening Black institution-building is essential to democracy and to the generations of Black leaders and communities who depend on it. Read more> |
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Diane Yentel, President and CEO of the National Council of Nonprofits, used her keynote for Shelterforce's 50th anniversary to offer a clear call: this is not a time to soften our language. It is a time for courage and solidarity. Learn more here> |
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New! FutureGood Events Calendar |
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We’ve launched a brand-new events calendar on the FutureGood website — your go-to hub for all upcoming workshops, talks, webinar. The page gives you an overview of what’s ahead in our virtual work together. Click any live link to learn more and explore registration options. All events take place online, and we’ll continue adding to this list throughout the year you can easily see what’s ahead and stay connected to everything happening across FutureGood. |
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FutureGood Visioning Strategist Jerry Hawkins Wins Emmy with KERA |
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We are proud to celebrate FutureGood Visioning Strategist Jerry Hawkins for his work on the Emmy-winning KERA documentary series “Recovering The Stories: Exploring the History and Resilience in Dallas Communities.” The series highlights six Dallas communities, sharing stories of resilience in the face of gentrification, racial injustice, and police brutality. Jerry’s decades-long work in historical preservation and community leadership has been central to the project’s impact. The series is now streaming on PBS website. |
How Can Philanthropy Use Futurism to Change the World? |
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How can philanthropy use futurism to create lasting change? In this episode of Liberty Hill Foundation’s Conversations from the Frontlines, Trista Harris—author, futurist, and President of FutureGood—shares how the social sector can look beyond short-term fixes and design bold, future-ready solutions. Trista talks about practical tools nonprofits and foundations can use to anticipate what’s coming, spot emerging trends, and build strategies that shape a more just and equitable tomorrow. Listen here> |
Solidarity Philanthropy |
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The new report points toward a future where the philanthropic sector acts as a unified community that strengthens movements and shifts resources toward long term change. It calls for funders, donors, and partners to work side by side with social movements to reshape how philanthropy operates from the inside. The message is clear, the path to collective liberation will be built by people who choose to imagine a better future together and take coordinated action to bring it to life. Read report here> |
New Center for Effective Philanthropy Report |
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NEW CEP research from CEP: While AI use is widespread at both foundations and nonprofits, how often are funders providing support — financial or otherwise — for nonprofits implement AI? What are leaders' top concerns about the technology? Are foundations and nonprofits having conversations about the development and deployment of AI to promote fairness, inclusivity, and justice? |
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With Gratitude |
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FutureGood wants to extend thanks to our colleagues in the social sector who have referred our services. We appreciate you! |
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Mary (Winzenburg) Uran Executive Director, |
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