Future Generations Graduate School
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| Motto | Empowering Communities to Shape their Futures |
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| Established | 2003 |
| President | Daniel C. Taylor |
| Location | Franklin, West Virginia, U.S. |
| Affiliations | Higher Learning Commission |
| Website | www |
Future Generations University (formerly Future Generations Graduate School) is a global graduate school that offers a Master of Arts in Applied Community Change. Future Generations grew out of Future Generations, an NGO that began in the early 1990s in response to a UNICEF sponsored review of community-based initiatives worldwide. In June of 2010 the school was accredited by its accrediting agency Higher Learning Commission.
In 1992, James P. Grant, then executive director of UNICEF, asked Daniel C. Taylor, co-founder of The Mountain Institute, and his father Carl E. Taylor, founding chair of the Department of International Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, to investigate why there was no correlation between the amount of money that UNICEF invested in sustainable development projects and the output that the projects achieved. The main issue that UNICEF faced was that they had many successful projects in specific communities, but fell short when they attempted to scale them up.
The Taylors founded an NGO called Future Generations in November of 1992 to address the questions of how to scale up local successes and how to sustain these successes using primarily local resources. They called the approach that they developed SEED-SCALE (Self Evaluation with Essential Data - Selecting Communities As Learning Examples). SEED-SCALE had three phases: (1) identifying a successful local project for social development; (2) transforming it into a community-based Action Learning Centre; and (3) a systematic process of facilitating community-to-community extension. SEED-SCALE fieldwork began in Tibet's Qomolangma National Nature Preserve. By 2012, Future Generations was working in China, Peru, India, Afghanistan, Canada, Haiti, and the United States.
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