The Social Contract
Vision & Foundations
The Vision
These are tempestuous times when the country is divided as never before in modern history and when the premises of the social contract are being put to the test by the challenges of the 21st century. In that context, the Gerald Huff Fund for Humanity, in collaboration with the Othering and Belonging Institute at UC Berkeley and facilitated by the Consensus Building Institute, brought together a distinguished, diverse group of organizational leaders and academics to craft a vision where:
- All Americans experience economic security and belonging, even as automation and AI continue to transform the labor market and the nature of work; and
- The benefits of security and belonging arise from new and renewed social and economic bonds among citizens, businesses, governments, and communities.
Liberatory Education
Embraced Identities
Enabling Technology
Communities of Belonging
Healthy Planet
Healthy Democracy
The participants
This vision reflects a year of preparation and dialogue among a diverse group of 16 leaders in economic and social policy, social activism, religion and spirituality, worker agency and voice, automation and the workplace, innovation in education, and place-based community development.
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The Continuing Dialogue
Convening of Interdisciplinary Group of Distinguished Experts Develops A Vision for What Our Society Should be a Generation From Now
Automation, Opportunity, and Belonging: Vision and Foundations for a Better Society is intended to spark and inform dialogue on long term goals for social change among activists, philanthropists, and business and government leaders. September 07, 2021 01:27 PM Eastern Daylight Time SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Today, the Gerald Huff Fund for Humanity in
Podcast: On Developing a Vision for a Better Society
Gisele Huff, education policy specialist and president of the Gerald Huff Fund for Humanity, along with john a. powell, director of UC Berkeley’s Othering & Belonging Institute, talk about the motivations and process behind the soon-to-be-released report, “Convening on Automation, Opportunity, and Belonging: Vision and Foundations for a Better Society.”