Martin Luther King famously envisioned the ideal of a “beloved community” as a place not only desegregated by law but one integrated in spirit, a place where people of all walks, all beliefs, and all races live and work peacefully side by side. Nearly sixty years...
What will citizenship of the future look like? Will global issues like climate change, food security, and human migration project us into greater global cooperation? Will this cooperation manifest as global conceptions of citizenship? Or, might we retract our sense...
Project Update (August 2019): This project has now produced and published a discussion guide: “Mental Health Matters: Promoting Good Mental Health in our Communities.” You can download a PDF copy (16 pages/1.1 MB) of this discussion guide by clicking on either...
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Project Manager: Sue Goodney Lea Whitney Houston sings in The Greatest Love of All (1985) that “the children are our future.” What, though, is the future of childhood? What does it mean, in our society, to be a child-- or to have a childhood? And what might it...
Editor - Adolf Gundersen The retirement project discussions explored retirement as an area of public policy concern. This project and its group discussions explored–and developed multiple and contrasting ideas and responses to--some important underlying concerns...
Editor - Adolf Gundersen The education project discussions explored the nature of education and learning, asking--and attempting to answer in different ways--a number of key, foundational questions, including-- What do we want education to achieve for individuals?...
Project Managers – Jack Byrd, Jr. and Jeff Prudhomme This Project Discussion is representative of IF’s ongoing developmental approach to our discussion processes. This project is different from our other Project Discussions in a few key respects: there were 2...
Project Manager – Dennis Boyer What if citizens had an opportunity to reinvent the world of work? This project arose not only from the sense that our hopes and expectations for our work were not always met by existing employment relations and human resources, but...
Project Manager –Jeff Prudhomme What if, through the use of genetic technologies, all children could be born without disabilities? What if they were required to be? Or what if these choices were only open to the wealthy? What if your entire personal genome could...
