Beginning in 2023, Imaginable Futures partnered with Dr. London Moore and her team to undergo an organization-wide JEDI audit. This is the first of three blogs where we’ll share our learnings and tak…
As a sector we talk a lot about systems change work, but what’s not talked about often enough is how advocacy can help transform the systems we hope to impact.
This International Women’s Day, we are reminded of the importance of addressing the systemic challenges and barriers that women and girls face, and creating a more equal world for everyone.
Neste post, destacamos algumas das lideranças femininas que estão trabalhando para criar um futuro próspero.
As leaders around the world gather for the 2023 UNGA and Sustainable Development Summit, this is a moment to reflect on the progress made towards its 17 Global goals.
How might one measure growing confidence among youth? Or the strength of emerging relationships between racial equity leaders and education policymakers We share our approach to measuring impact.
Earlier this year we partnered with the Center for Effective Philanthropy (CEP) to gather feedback from our partner organizations, both non-profit grantees and for-profit investees, using their Gran…
Watch this conversation between our Amy Klement and Desy Osunsade, where they reflect on our JEDI journey, how we learned from our missteps, found new opportunities and made adjustments to make forwa…
Imagine distinguishes itself by providing offline digital solutions for children in Africa without connectivity. Here are 3 ways Imagine successfully met the needs of learners during the pandemic.
IF’s Amy Klement and our partners at the Gates Foundation, Kapor Center and Strada Education share investment approaches in philanthropy that drive impact and target inequities at SXSW Edu.
With two years behind us, we remain steadfast to the vision we imagined when we first launched our organization. Amy Klement shares the future we imagine for learners and their families.
Today's challenges call for creative investment strategies in philanthropy. Imaginable Futures is mentioned in this article in the Stanford Social Innovation Review for our innovative approach.
Amy Klement interviews with Forbes to share how Imaginable Futures is diving deeper and collaborating with partners to address systematic inequities that perpetuate barriers for learners.
For philanthropy to drive sustainable change, we need to rethink traditional models that are too often top-down and risk perpetuating the same systems of oppression they seek to transform.
One year after we made a commitment to use our power to dismantle systemic racism, we share the peaks and valleys of our JEDI journey and how we’re holding ourselves accountable.
At Imaginable Futures, we won’t pretend that we know what all of those solutions might be. But, we are committed to working together to find out. And we know this starts with listening.
When our philanthropic investment firm launched last year, we could never have anticipated the year that was 2020. Here’s how our values guided us in 2020 and the learnings we’re taking into 2021.
Amy Klement and Erin Simmons share our Learning Reimagined: Radical Thinking for Equitable Futures report and invite you explore drivers of change, early signals of hope and future scenarios.
In Part 2, Amy Klement, shares the investments Imaginable Futures has made both within its current portfolio as well as new investments that will help those in need.
In this two-part series, Amy Klement shares how she is looking at the education landscape and how Imaginable Futures might best help learners around the world against the current crisis.
With the global COVID-19 pandemic impacting all our lives – and the lives of our families and communities around the world – we are thinking of you, what you may need and how we can best assist.
For International Women's Day, we honor our Imaginable Futures portfolio and the incredible women who have persevered to be part of the solutions for learners and their families.
At Imaginable Futures, we carry the whole-child philosophy into how we interact with entrepreneurs. Call it our “whole entrepreneur” philosophy.
We’re thrilled to share that after seven years as Omidyar Network’s Education initiative, today we launch as Imaginable Futures, an independent global philanthropic investment firm focused on the fut…
More than 800 million children and young people will lack the basic skills or qualifications needed for the modern workforce. Disruption is needed to address this challenge, and the answer can’t be m…
Jessica and I are both parents of young children, and as we go into each day, we do our best to listen to our kids to help guide them to learn and grow. What they are thinking, how they are feeling, …
This week, the 73rd session of the UN General Assembly opened, and global leaders are actively discussing our progress toward the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Across the US and around the world, education technology, or “edtech,” has been under attack.
Education technology (also known as “edtech”) too often seems like a luxury found only in well-off communities. But while it does have the potential to exacerbate inequities in education, it can act…
Despite progress over the past 20 years to increase access to education around the globe, we remain in a global learning crisis. According to the UNESCO Institute for Statistics, more than 617 millio…
During Women’s History Month, we want to celebrate women we feel fortunate to work with every day who are pursuing big, bold visions to create positive change for millions of children and families in…
For millions of young Americans, a four-year college degree is the gateway to a modern career. Many others, though, want or need the chance to pursue a rewarding career path sooner and are looking fo…
One million of the best jobs in America may go unfilled if our children don’t learn to code. And even for those who will not become professional coders, computer literacy and the basic logic and crit…
At Omidyar Network, we believe there are few more direct pathways to opportunity than education. High-quality education can have a greater impact on a young person’s development, livelihood, economic…