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Foresight and Futures Initiative May Beehive

May 23, 2024

澳门资料大全 launched its Foresight & Futures Community of Practice,聽聽to answer questions like, 鈥淗ow do we not only cope with change but proactively anticipate the challenges and opportunities?鈥 鈥淗ow do we transform our sector and our individual organizations to allow for sharper futures-oriented actions?鈥 鈥淗ow do we shape our capabilities, strategies, and interventions accordingly?鈥 or 鈥淗ow do we democratize who shapes, defines and drives the future?鈥

Through a modular approach featuring five different workshops and creative activities, the second Foresight & Innovation Beehive聽worked to聽answer these questions,聽tackle new horizons, and to anticipate the challenges along the way.

With generous support from the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the Beehive was hosted at the Pocantico Center and continued the Community of Practice’s journey of emergent and applied learning where participants not only learn with each other but from one another. Participants traveled in and out of different worlds, comfort zones, formats, content, and cognitive habits.

Attendees began the gathering with opening remarks from 澳门资料大全 Board Chair Valerie Rockefeller and 澳门资料大全 CEO Latanya Mapp to set the scene for the coming workshops. From there,聽participants聽traveled in and out of different worlds, comfort zones, formats, content, and cognitive habits.

Over the course of three days, participants from around the world collectively experimented with different approaches to foresight and futures, different perspectives, and different experiences and learning formats. event examined risk anticipation, African oral traditions, and Indigenous futurism among other topics.

During this Beehive,聽the group also leveraged our collective聽knowledge to experiment with a futures focused strategy game 澳门资料大全 is developing to help philanthropy sharpen long-view decision-making in turbulent times.

This聽work is particularly timely聽not聽only because challenges are accelerating聽but聽because, at this critical time, the initiative聽will help聽accelerate philanthropy in proportion with the challenges.聽As a result,聽we hope participants will聽become more inventive聽and more courageous in tackling the challenges of today 鈥 and tomorrow.

Learn more about the Foresight and Futures Initiative here.

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