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Bold goals, refined strategy: Foundation takes new approaches to fulfilling its mission
September 10, 2021During one of the most challenging years that many of us have ever faced, Blue Shield of California Foundation has seized...Read more »
California Future of Work Commission Report: A new social compact for work and workers
March 3, 2021Through its work, the Future of Work Commission identified critical challenges for California to address for work and...Read more »
How Children’s Council of San Francisco is turning family and neighbor child care workers into thriving small business owners
February 16, 2021After a successful first year, Children’s Council’s Family Child Care Business Incubator is expanding to secure the...Read more »
Connecting the dots: Improving child care workers’ conditions leads to better health, economic stability, and greater equity
November 6, 2020
New grants support Californians whose ‘new normal’ in the pandemic is intolerable
April 15, 2020When I came to the Foundation just a few weeks ago, I was energized to help achieve our bold goal: to make California the...Read more »
The Future of Gender Norms: Generating New Narratives of Transformational Change
January 3, 2020If you had just six words to describe your vision of the future of gender, what would they be? This is the question that...Read more »
Intersections of Futures Thinking and Afrofuturist Visioning: A memo from an Afrofuturist Festival
January 3, 2020Institute for the Future, with support from the Blue Shield of...Read more »
Equitable Futures: from Foresight to Insight to Action
January 3, 2020A more equitable future begins with more equitable participation in imagining the future. To engage people worldwide in...Read more »
How many spirits live in a BART station? And other questions about othering and belonging
May 15, 2019Earlier this year, I was late to work, flying down the stairs of the San Bruno BART station to the underground passenger...Read more »
Report: The Economics of Child Abuse: A Study of California
March 15, 2019In 2017, one out of every 19 children were reported as victims of maltreatment in California. Signs of child maltreatment...Read more »