Philanthropy and digital civil society: Blueprint 2025

Like its 15 predecessors, this year’s Blueprint includes essays and buzzwords. What it doesn’t include is a set of predictions for the year 2025. As I outlined last year, I no longer think we have the insight to make such timed
calls. As I said then, “Our means of analysis, from decentralized networks of futurists doing their work in public to opaque algorithms buried inside institutions, are also in flux. When both the variables and the equations are new, then the predictions—and their timing—are far too uncertain to make claims of next month, next year, next decade.” It seems likely that 2025 will bring massive, structural changes to nature, governments, borders, and economies. Instead of predictions, I’m including a section called Keeping prior conversations going, where I check in on big questions and themes that have run through the Blueprint series and offer them as topics for continuing
conversation. I hope these ideas prove meaningful within the context of your work and with the partners and colleagues with whom you pursue your mission.

Lucy Bernholz

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