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Posted on Wed, 2012 – 01 – 25 12:01

Organization, Position and Person Profile

THE MISSION

Future Generations teaches and enables a process for
equitable community change that integrates
environmental conservation with social development.

THE POSITION

The Executive Director is the Chief Executive Officer of two organizations, the Civil Society Organization and the Graduate School. This position offers the opportunity to take the helm of both organizations and lead them. The Civil Society Organization has been recently re-cast as an Incubator of Social Change Innovations. The accredited Graduate School of Applied Community Change is the arm that extends the innovations through creating a global base of continuing research and very applied action. The Executive Director will ensure that the organization’s strategic goals are achieved by providing leadership and management. The two organizations seek a person with collaborative leadership style, willing to take innovation seriously, utilizing a management style of delegation, and possessing organizational and fundraising skills.

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Future Generations Graduate School Video spotlights community empowerment

Posted on Mon, 2012 – 01 – 23 15:59

Watch a new video featuring the Future Generations Graduate School Master's Degree program in Applied Community Change and Conservation.

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View from the Top of Mount Everest

Posted on Thu, 2011 – 11 – 03 15:12

When Dan'l Taylor, Executive Director of Future Generations and Future Generations Graduate School, saw this full screen panorama from the top of Mount Everest—he was deeply moved, saying:  "For 270 degrees of view in this photo, to as far as the eye can see, it was such a privilege to be the lead person in creating the two major national parks in two countries that protected the Mount Everest ecosystem.

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Faculty member, Daniel Taylor, completes new book: "Empowerment on an Unstable Planet"

Posted on Thu, 2011 – 10 – 27 11:06

For $35, you can order hardcover copies of "Empowerment on an Unstable Planet: From Seeds of Human Energy to a Scale of Global Chang from Future Generations." To purchase, please call 304-358-2000 or e-mail Rebecca Vaus at becky@future.org. 

Donate $100, and receive a signed book by the authors: Carl, Daniel and Jesse Oak Taylor. 

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John Hopkins Public Health Magazine features video of Dr. Carl Taylor on "The Origins of International Health"

Posted on Thu, 2011 – 10 – 20 10:49

As part of their Online Extra's section, John Hopkins Public Health Magazine recently featured a video on the late Dr. Carl Taylor on "The Origins of International Health."

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Aljazeera features Peruvian Women's Action Groups and Soccer Leagues

Posted on Thu, 2011 – 08 – 25 17:17

A Woman Leader, Juana Estrada, trained by Future Generations Peru in maternal and child health, created a women's soccer league in rural Cusco that has the added benefit of bringing together older and younger women from remote villages to gain health knowledge and discuss shared challenges.

View the video on Aljazeera's website>.

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Community Management Improves Rural Primary Health Center

Posted on Tue, 2011 – 08 – 16 11:26



In East Siang District of Arunachal Pradesh, India, near the mouth of the Brahmaputra River in the town of Sille, a primary health center serves six major rural villages and a growing migrant population of more than 10,000 people. The surrounding indigenous population is within a 12km walk over difficult terrain to the primary health center, which was seldom used and was in such a dilapidated condition that curative and preventative care was practically non-existent.

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Grad School Welcomes Director of Alumni Continuing Education

Posted on Tue, 2011 – 08 – 16 09:52

From the Himalayan state of Bhutan, Lham joins the Graduate School staff as Director of Alumni Continuing Education. A 2009 graduate of the Master's program, she will work with the alumni and their communities, a vital part of Future Generations global network of partners, to promote their continued success and life-long education. Working with the Dean, Lham will foster relations between prospective students and Future Generations increasing number of alumni.

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Forbes.com features Future Generations Graduate School

Posted on Thu, 2011 – 07 – 21 12:28

On July 20, 2011, a press conference on Capitol Hill announced a Microsoft donation of $2 million in software for non-profit organizations in Appalachia. The Future Generations Graduate School received approximately $70,000 in software donations to be used in public computer centers based in volunteer fire departments across West Virginia.

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Graduate School Accepts Next Class of Students

Posted on Mon, 2011 – 07 – 11 13:38

On June 1, 2011, Future Generations Graduate School accepted 27 candidates into our next Master’s Degree class to start in January 2012. The next class represents 16 countries, including: Ethiopia, Afghanistan, Malawi, Uganda, Haiti, Guyana, Namibia, Ghana, USA, South Africa, Nigeria, Rwanda, Zambia, Kenya, Bolivia, and Nepal. 

With each class our program gets stronger and this class will be no exception. The Future Generations Graduate School student is highly motivated, academically strong, and active on the front lines of creative social change.

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