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The Foundation conducts a broad range of programs and activities to promote an understanding of the factors in the social, genetic, biological, medical, psychological, physiological, cultural, technological, and ecological fields that may have an impact on human life during coming millennia.

To fulfill its mandate, the Foundation For the Future :

• Promotes public awareness of and education in futures issues.

• Convenes seminars, workshops, and symposia that focus on issues associated with the long-term future of humanity.

• Publishes scholarly works that address issues concerning the factors that will affect the future quality of human life.

• Awards the annual Kistler Prize (cash and gold medallion), the Walter P. Kistler Book Award (cash and certificate), the Walter P. Kistler Science Teacher of the Year Award (cash and certificate), and the Walter P. Kistler Science Documentary Film Award (cash and certificate).

• Provides financial support to scholars’ research through Research Grant Awards.

• Facilitates a Student Education Program that encourages young scholars to think about the future.

The Foundation’s benefactor and founding President is Walter Kistler. A Board of Trustees oversees all Foundation activities and is supported by an Executive Director, two Deputy Directors, and a small administrative staff.

The Foundation has assembled teams of prominent scholars and humanists to serve on the Foundation’s Board of Advisors and on the Kistler Prize Advisory Panel.

The Foundation is sustained in perpetuity by a permanent endowment.