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Causes: Community Health Systems, Community Improvement & Capacity Building, Environment, Health, Natural Resources Conservation & Protection, Unknown
Mission: Future generations teaches and enables a process for equitable community change that integrates environmental conservation with development.
Programs: Rural america programs: future generations organized a series of outreach services began for community capacity building around computer literacy. This program grew into supportive services for u. S. Veteran families, especially homeless military veterans, with funds coming from the department of veterans affairs.
provide grant funds to eligible graduate school alumni to continue to work in areas in which they were trained. 90% of students received scholarship support as they come from disadvantage communities in now 34 countries.
provide grant funds to sister organizations in china and haiti to assist with administering their respective programs. China: partnerships continued with future generations china. The primary activity was collaboration to support environmental action and protection of the watershed by a village that is located adjacent to the major water supply for beijing, china's national capital. The secondary activity was to continue the long-standing support to the pendeba society and its community-based work within the qomonlangma (mt everest) national nature preserve. Haiti: the country of haiti encounters natural disasters at a higher frequency than is common to other countries, especially hurricanes and earthquakes. Future generations haiti focused on building community resilience and skills among especially the urban poor so that otherwise forgotten citizens will be able on their own to address the challenges that come on this unfortunately frequent basis.