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Facing the Future's mission is to develop young people’s capacity and commitment to create thriving, sustainable and peaceful local and global communties.

We do this by providing educators with the tools and resources they need to ignite their students’ interest in complex global issues while helping them achieve academically. Our approach is positive and solutions-oriented, and our business model is systemic and leveraged: Facing the Future programming reaches hundreds of thousands of students each year at a cost of less than $2 per student.

Programming Designed to Help Students

• Understand global issues and sustainability in a way that shows the connections between population, environment, consumption, poverty, conflict, and other global issues
• Develop a global perspective
• Learn critical thinking skills
• Be inspired to take personal action

Climate change. Population growth. Poverty. Environmental degradation. Conflict. Global health crises. Intractable global problems? We don’t think so. At Facing the Future we believe in the transformative power of widespread, systemic education to improve lives and communities, both locally and globally. Our positive, solutions-based programming is designed by and for teachers, and effectively brings critical thinking about global issues to students in every walk of life. We work within the education system to help teachers help students achieve academic success, while preparing them to create and maintain positive, healthy and sustainability communities. We provide curriculum, teacher workshops, and service learning opportunities used by teachers, schools, and districts in all 50 states and over 50 countries.

By 2020, Facing the Future programming will reach over 12.5 million students each year.


We empower teachers with the resources they need to ignite their students’ interest in complex global issues while helping them achieve academically. Our approach is positive and solutions-oriented, and our business model is systemic and leveraged: Facing the Future programming reaches hundreds of thousands of students each year at a cost of less than $2 per student.

In a world where the lives of our neighbors next door are inextricably linked to those of our neighbors abroad, students need to understand the linkages between local and global issues, and how they can personally help to build positive local and global communities

Our Approach
Learn about our strategic objectives, the metrics by which we evaluate our success, and our plan for reaching 12.5 million students per year by 2020.

Our Team
Meet our staff, board, advisory council, and volunteers.

Our Issues
Delve into the complex global and local issues we address and how we address them.

Our Supporters
See who has invested in creating a world in which the next generation is equipped to solve the complex issues they will face.