Tuesday, January 21, 2025 | 3pm ET / 2pm CT / 1pm MT / 12pm PT 

Sponsored by: Melville Charitable Trust
Co-Hosted by: Fund for Housing and Opportunity

The housing justice movement is at a pivotal moment and despite efforts, little has changed for those who are unhoused or living in undignified housing. And the coming years holds little promise for low-income households. As economic inequity, racism, and climate change continue to shape our communities, it’s essential for nonprofit and foundation leaders to take a proactive stance. The future can be different—for your organization and the families you serve—if we take deliberate action today. 

Join us for "Now is the Time to be a Future-Focused Leader," a webinar with philanthropic futurist Trista Harris, President of FutureGood. As we enter a new political environment, this powerful program will help nonprofit and foundation leaders resist strictly reacting to the harmful challenges we know are ahead and instead focus on proactive actions that build a just future for all. Join us for this unique opportunity to explore how your leadership can co-create and shape the future of housing justice. We’re encouraging funders to invite their grantees working in housing justice and intersecting issues so they can also benefit from this experience as well.

This webinar is generously sponsored by the Melville Charitable Trust and co-hosted by Funders Together to End Homelessness and the Fund for Housing and Opportunity. These three organizations welcome their grantees, members, and grantees of their members to participate in this webinar.  

Learning Objectives 

• Develop a future-focused mindset so you’re ready to lead in uncertain times. 
• Understand key trends impacting housing justice and what they mean for your community. 
• Learn practical futurism tools and strategies to apply in your daily work. 

Speakers

• Trista Harris, President, FutureGood
• Susan Thomas, President, Melville Charitable Trust
  
  

About Futurism & FutureGood 

What Is Futurism? 

Nonprofits, foundations, and social purpose businesses are working to solve some of society’s toughest challenges. Futurism is a valuable tool that helps us see what is coming next and improve the future through better decision-making. The government, military, and private sector all use tools of futurism to strengthen their ability to understand what is coming next. It’s time for people in the social sector to take advantage of those same tools and to be an active voice in the spaces and places where the future is being created. 

Approaching your work through the lens of futurism can increase your capacity and ability to solve social problems so you can become more valuable to your organization and community. 

• Concentrate your attention on the problems where you can have the largest impact. 
• Influence greater change on the issues you are most passionate about. 
• Create consensus within groups by helping others see a clear path forward. 
• Establish a vision of long-term success that people can buy into. 

About FutureGood and Trista Harris 

FutureGood was founded by Trista Harris, a world-renowned philanthropic futurist who is passionate about empowering organizations by providing the tools, framework, and guidance necessary to create their ideal future. Her groundbreaking work has been featured in Forbes, CNN, The New York Times, The Chronicle of Philanthropy, and many social sector blogs. Trista has dedicated her entire career to the social sector, starting at the age of 15 as a summer parks assistant. Prior to her work at FutureGood, she served as President of the Minnesota Council on Foundations, a thriving grant-making community that awards over $1.5 billion annually. She was also the Executive Director of the Headwaters Foundation for Justice and a Program Officer at Minnesota Philanthropy Partners. 

Webinar Eligibility & Registration  

Please register for this webinar using the button below. You will receive your unique Zoom link once a staff person has approved your registration. Please note that the registration process will ask you to provide information identify who invited you to participate in this webinar.  

Please note: Participation in this webinar is limited to:  

• Grantees and funder partners of Melville Charitable Trust 
• Members Funders Together to End Homelessness and their grantees 
• Steering Committee Members of the Fund for Housing and Opportunity and their grantees 
• Grantees of the Fund for Housing and Opportunity
• Philanthropy-Serving Organization (PSO) partners of Funders Together to End Homelessness and Fund for Housing and Opportunity

Technology 

This webinar will take place via Zoom Webinar. Registration will be open until January 20, 2025 at 5pm ET. If you do not receive your Zoom link or have technical issues logging into this call, please reach out to Stephanie Chan at [email protected]. 

This webinar will last 1 hour.