Building the Future Preparedness Index--Add your voice!

Bumped. --Mike

Ever wondered why young people, despite being the “Future Majority”, aren’t really asked to help imagine and build the future they’ll inherit? I’ve thought about it a lot and it’s unacceptable. That’s why I started Young People First last December. YPF is all about building systems and tools that help young people become a more future-oriented, powerful constituency. We want to push the debate out past the next election, toward what kind of world we’ll inhabit when we’re our parents’ age.

To this end, YPF is building the Future Preparedness Index. The FPI measures how well America is moving toward the type of country we need to be in 25 years. A number of great organizations, like Mobilize.org, Black Youth Vote, Roosevelt Institution, and Student Association for Voter Empowerment (a full list of partners is below), are already helping us build this tool.

Now we need your help. Let us know what issues you think are most important from a Future Preparedness perspective. Your input is important for helping us build the Future Preparedness Index into something that will help our politics address our country’s most difficult problems. Here’s the questionnaire: http://www.youngpeoplefirst.org.

Future Preparedness Index partners: Mobilize.org, Roosevelt Institution, Student Association for Voter Empowerment, Black Youth Vote, CIRCLE, Generation Engage, Concord Coalition, Youth Entitlements Summit, National Conference on Citizenship, HeadCount, Truman National Security Project, and Sierra Club.