IAF vice president Eric Meade presented a paper on the future of microfinance impact assessment to an audience in Glasgow, UK that included Grameen Bank founder and Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus. Click here for the paper.
SELECTED PROJECTS
Foresight Seminars
Foresight Seminars on Capitol Hill for Policy-Makers and Staff
For three decades, IAF has brought the future to Capitol Hill through foresight briefings and seminars designed to help policy-makers and their staff explore the long-term consequences of policy decisions.
Foresight Seminars on Capitol Hill for Policy-Makers and Staff
For three decades, IAF has brought the future to Capitol Hill through foresight briefings and seminars designed to help policy-makers and their staff explore the long-term consequences of policy decisions.
Healthcare Futures
Scenarios of the U.S. Healthcare System in the Year 2019
IAF has developed a set of four distinct scenarios of the U.S. healthcare system a decade from now, and has used these scenarios to facilitate strategic discussions for leading healthcare systems and organizations. IAF continues to update these scenarios based on the ongoing national policy discussion.
Scenarios of the U.S. Healthcare System in the Year 2019
IAF has developed a set of four distinct scenarios of the U.S. healthcare system a decade from now, and has used these scenarios to facilitate strategic discussions for leading healthcare systems and organizations. IAF continues to update these scenarios based on the ongoing national policy discussion.
Learning Innovation
Center for Education and Learning Innovation
IAF’s Center for Education and Learning Innovation is a positive and challenging force for improving education systems, methods and outcomes to meet the needs of next-generation global citizens.
Center for Education and Learning Innovation
IAF’s Center for Education and Learning Innovation is a positive and challenging force for improving education systems, methods and outcomes to meet the needs of next-generation global citizens.
Pro-Poor Foresight
Foresight to Accelerate and Enhance Pro-Poor Development Opportunities
In March 2009, IAF facilitated a Rockefeller Foundation conference on how futures tools can be used on behalf of the world’s poor. This is just part of IAF’s ongoing efforts to use foresight to identify opportunities to accelerate global development.
Foresight to Accelerate and Enhance Pro-Poor Development Opportunities
In March 2009, IAF facilitated a Rockefeller Foundation conference on how futures tools can be used on behalf of the world’s poor. This is just part of IAF’s ongoing efforts to use foresight to identify opportunities to accelerate global development.
Health Disparities
IAF’s Disparity Reducing Advances (DRA) Project
The Disparity Reducing Advances Project (the DRA Project) is a multi-year, multi-stakeholder project to identify the most promising advances for bringing health gains to the poor and underserved and accelerating the development and deployment of these advances to reduce disparities.
IAF’s Disparity Reducing Advances (DRA) Project
The Disparity Reducing Advances Project (the DRA Project) is a multi-year, multi-stakeholder project to identify the most promising advances for bringing health gains to the poor and underserved and accelerating the development and deployment of these advances to reduce disparities.
ABOUT US
The Institute for Alternative Futures (IAF) is a leader in the creation of preferred futures. Since its founding in 1977 by Clement Bezold, Alvin Toffler and James Dator, IAF has helped organizations monitor trends, explore future possibilities and create the futures they prefer. IAF draws on a robust selection of futures methodologies, such as environmental scans, forecasts, scenarios, visioning and its own "aspirational futures" technique. Past clients include the World Health Organization, the Department of Health and Human Services, the Environmental Protection Agency, AARP, and the American Cancer Society. IAF is a 501(c)3 non-profit research and education organization. IAF has also worked with a wide range of leading multinational corporations through its for-profit subsidiary, Alternative Futures, Associates (AFA). View our brochure here and for more information, write to futurist@altfutures.org or call us at 703.684.5880.
NEWS & EVENTS
IAF futurist addresses microfinance conference
IAF and Altarum Institute co-sponsor policy roundtable
On June 17, 2010, IAF's Jonathan Peck joined Catherine DeAngelis and Sheila Burke on a panel moderated by Robert Kelch on “From Right to Responsibility: What Does the 'American Experience' Mean for the Success of Health Care Reform?”
IAF completes pro-poor scenario toolkit
With support from the Rockefeller Foundation, IAF has created a toolkit for communities, countries and regions to develop pro-poor scenarios and action agendas around the world.
