Children’s & Women’s Health

Futures Without Violence

FUTURES is transforming social norms around child abuse and domestic violence, bullying and sexual assault. Its holistic approach includes training professionals to improve responses to violence and abuse, education and advocacy at the highest levels of decision making to ensure legal protections for those vulnerable to violence, and campaigns that empower individuals and organizations to end violence against women and children around the world. FUTURES bravely works cross-spectrum, from direct engagement to advocacy. By engaging children, teens, college students, athletic coaches, men, workplaces, health care providers, universities, and government in its education efforts, FUTURES is an even more powerful advocate at the policy level because of its evidence-based and practical understanding of how to move the needle.

“...unless we prevent and heal childhood trauma, no community can be healthy, nor can the people in it prosper and thrive.”

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“A pioneering philanthropist, Lisa is a thoughtful, strategic thinker who affects every bit as much change with her ideas as with the support she provides. She has provided essential guidance and support on critically important issues, including stopping child trauma, building resilience among those who have experienced it, and helping children and families heal. Her compassion and vision have helped us create powerful new strategies through our national Changing Minds Initiative, which prevents and heals childhood trauma, and our Allin4Kids Initiative, which empowers Bay Area communities to prevent childhood adversity, promote healthy childhood development, and address the punishing inequities exposed by the pandemic. Lisa is one of our most treasured allies and friends.”

—Esta Soler, President and Founder, FUTURES WITHOUT VIOLENCE