FUTURE NOW (ORGANIZATION):
An Inventory of Its Records at the Minnesota Historical Society
Manuscripts Collection
OVERVIEW
| Creator: | Future Now (Organization), creator. | |
| Title: | Organizational records. | |
| Dates: | 1982-2014. | |
| Language: | Materials in English. | |
| Abstract: | Administrative and client files of a Twin Cities-based consulting firm working to advance progressive issues through the training of and consultation with members of local environmental, neighborhood, cooperative, social justice, and similar organizations. | |
| Quantity: | 8.7 cubic feet (8 boxes and 38 folders in 1 partial box). | |
| Location: | See Detailed Description for shelf locations. |
HISTORICAL NOTE
Future Now: A Training Collective, was a worker-owned cooperative established in 1984 to strengthen movements and organizations working on progressive and liberal issues through training and consultation. Clientele included social change and advocacy organizations, including those for battered women, food cooperatives, back-to-the-land communities, nonprofits serving Hmong and Lao immigrants, environment, peace and justice, and disability rights. Many of the client organizations were faith-based. Principals included Betsy Raasch-Gilman, Will Pipkin, and Erika Thorne. By 2002 most activities had ceased, although an online presence existed until 2006.
SCOPE AND CONTENTS
Materials in the collection include annual reports, articles of incorporation, bylaws, financial statements, minutes, administrative files, and client and potential client files.
Client files are the heart of the collection, and include descriptions of the project at hand; information about the client organization's mission, finances, and history; minutes of the organizations' meetings; agreements with Future Now for the provision of services to the group; correspondence; and reports produced by Future Now at the conclusion of the projects. Organizations represented in the files include such groups as Advocating Change Together, Central Minnesota Task Force on Battered Women, Educators for Social Responsibility, the Land Stewardship Project, Marcy Park Housing Co-Op, McDonough Organization with Respect and Equality for People (MORE), Powderhorn Co-Op, Saint Paul Neighborhood Network, the Seward Cafe, Whittier Cooperative, Women Against Military Madness, and the Women's Alliance of Hmong and Lao.
ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION
Availability:
The collection is open for research use.
Preferred Citation:
[Indicate the cited item and/or series here]. Future Now (Organization). Organizational records. Minnesota Historical Society.
See the Chicago Manual of Style for additional examples.
Accession Information:
Accession number: 16,726; 17,433
Processing Information:
Processed by: David B. Peterson, March 2013. Addition by David B. Peterson, April 2022.
Catalog ID number: 990076594700104294
DETAILED DESCRIPTION
| Box | |||||||||||
| 147.D.15.8F | 1 | Historical sketch, 2012. | |||||||||
| This narrative was written by Betsy Raasch-Gilman, one of the principals of the organization. | |||||||||||
| Governance documents: | |||||||||||
| Annual reports, 1991-1993. | |||||||||||
| Includes research paper by Kate Segrin on the organization. | |||||||||||
| Financial statements, 1991-1995. | |||||||||||
| Articles of incorporation and bylaws, 1985-1994. | |||||||||||
| Meeting minutes and memoranda, 1985-1999. 12 folders. | |||||||||||
| Administrative files, general: | |||||||||||
| Book sales, 1996-1998. 2 folders. | |||||||||||
| Business services, 1997. | |||||||||||
| Central purchasing, 1993-1996. | |||||||||||
| Contracts, 1990-1995. | |||||||||||
| Correspondence, 1989-1994. 2 folders. | |||||||||||
| Facilitating workshop, 1988. | |||||||||||
| Fund raising, 1991-1996. 5 folders. | |||||||||||
| GIG reviews, 1992-1994. | |||||||||||
| Includes lists of reviews and projects. | |||||||||||
| Glow Lines, 1991-1995. | |||||||||||
| Insurance policies, 1992-1998. | |||||||||||
| Intake forms, 1990s. 2 folders. | |||||||||||
| Legal documents, 1991-1995. | |||||||||||
| Lists, 1987-1993. | |||||||||||
| Long range planning, 1989-1992. | |||||||||||
| Marketing plans, 1989-1997. | |||||||||||
| Mediation gigs, 1991-1997. | |||||||||||
| New Thing minutes, 1999. | |||||||||||
| Non-profit gag rule, 1995. | |||||||||||
| Non-violence, Persian Gulf, 1991. | |||||||||||
| Non-violent pledge of resistance workshop, 1982-1986. | |||||||||||
| Note paper, undated and 1995. | |||||||||||
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| 147.D.15.9B | 2 | Office move, 1994. | |||||||||
| Persian Gulf war activities, 1991. | |||||||||||
| Personnel, 1994. | |||||||||||
| Promotions, 1990s. | |||||||||||
| Rate cards, approximately 1996. | |||||||||||
| Recent client lists, 1992-1998. | |||||||||||
| Resumes/biographies, 1990s. | |||||||||||
| Retreat/conference sites, 1990s. | |||||||||||
| Small Business certifications, 1992-1998. | |||||||||||
| Administrative files, organizations/individuals: | |||||||||||
| Anti-Homophobia Education Network, 1988-1990. | |||||||||||
| Bigelow Foundation, 1995. | |||||||||||
| Eve Borenstein, 1996-1998. | |||||||||||
| Brown & Company, 1997-1998. | |||||||||||
| Consultant Exchange, 1997. | |||||||||||
| Environmental Support Center, 1991-1997. | |||||||||||
| Facilitators' Group, 1998. | |||||||||||
| Funding Exchange, 1994. | |||||||||||
| Growing Communities for Peace, 1996. | |||||||||||
| Headwaters Fund, 1990-1998. | |||||||||||
| Mediation Services, 1998. | |||||||||||
| Midwest Institute for Social Transformation, 1993-1998. | |||||||||||
| Midwest Council on Foundations, 1993. | |||||||||||
| Minnesota Facilitators' Network, 1994. | |||||||||||
| Minnesota Futures Fund, 1998. | |||||||||||
| Minnesota Nonprofit Assistance Fund, 1994. | |||||||||||
| Miscellaneous colleagues, 1991-1997. | |||||||||||
| Miscellaneous funders, 1993-1998. | |||||||||||
| Movement Builders, 1992. | |||||||||||
| National Conference on Peacemaking and Conflict Resolution, 1994-1995. | |||||||||||
| North Country Development Fund, 1992-1994. | |||||||||||
| Nonviolence International, 1993-1994. | |||||||||||
| Peace Development Fund, 1997. | |||||||||||
| Social Movement Empowerment Project, 1989-1994. | |||||||||||
| Training for Change, 1999. | |||||||||||
| United for a Fair Economy/Share the Wealth, 1996. | |||||||||||
| Client files, 1980s-1990s: | |||||||||||
| A-Ca. 19 folders. | |||||||||||
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| 147.D.15.10F | 3 | Ce-Fn. 44 folders. | |||||||||
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| 147.D.16.1B | 4 | Fr-Ne. 44 folders. | |||||||||
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| 147.D.16.2F | 5 | No-Se. 51 folders. | |||||||||
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| 147.D.16.3B | 6 | Si-Wa. 44 folders. | |||||||||
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| 147.D.16.4F | 7 | Wo. 9 folders. | |||||||||
| Potential client files, A-Y, 1980s-1990s. 94 folders. | |||||||||||
| Project CREATE, 1993-1995. 2 folders. | |||||||||||
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| 145.L.15.4F | 8 | Client Files 1999-2004: | |||||||||
| ACT, 2008-2009. 6 folders. | |||||||||||
| Active RVA. | |||||||||||
| Activism for the long haul: Skills for organizing. | |||||||||||
| Association for India's Development. | |||||||||||
| Bancroft Neighborhood Association. | |||||||||||
| Campus Progress TSAT. | |||||||||||
| Citizen Action of Indiana. | |||||||||||
| Citizens for Election Integrity. | |||||||||||
| CASE-MN. | |||||||||||
| Central Circle Co-operatives. | |||||||||||
| Clouds in Water board of directors. | |||||||||||
| Community rights. | |||||||||||
| Counter-Recruitment Curriculum. | |||||||||||
| Deep Democracy Conference. | |||||||||||
| District 13 Parks and Recreation Committee. | |||||||||||
| Engaging Empire Conference. | |||||||||||
| Episcopal women companions. | |||||||||||
| Family and children's services. | |||||||||||
| Featherstone Farm team building retreat, 2009. | |||||||||||
| Fishing treaty rights, 2010. | |||||||||||
| Food and medicine. | |||||||||||
| FWD-MN. | |||||||||||
| Greenpeace, 2011. | |||||||||||
| Growing Grounds. | |||||||||||
| G-8 trainings, 2008. | |||||||||||
| Having an activist life. | |||||||||||
| How to Teach Theory workshop. | |||||||||||
| Hub Bike Co-Op. | |||||||||||
| Independent thought and social action. | |||||||||||
| Labor Education Service (University of Minnesota). | |||||||||||
| Latinola Economic Development Corporation. | |||||||||||
| Longfellow Neighborhood Association. | |||||||||||
| Macalester College class. | |||||||||||
| Minnesota Alliance of Peacemakers. | |||||||||||
| Minnesota Association of Co-operatives. | |||||||||||
| MN UU Social Justice Alliance. | |||||||||||
| Midwest Booksellers Association (MBA). | |||||||||||
| National Conference on Organized Resistance (NCOR), 2008. | |||||||||||
| Nicollet Cooperative Association. 2 folders. | |||||||||||
| Nokoma Co-Operative. | |||||||||||
| Nonviolence and anarchism. | |||||||||||
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| 123.E.18.8F | 9 | North Country Co-Op. | |||||||||
| North Country Coop Development Fund/Sunrise Villa Cooperative. 4 folders. | |||||||||||
| Organizing to win! | |||||||||||
| Peace Coffee. | |||||||||||
| Princeton Pace Center for Learning. | |||||||||||
| Raspberry Ridge Co-Op. | |||||||||||
| Reclaiming Priestess training. | |||||||||||
| Riverton County housing. | |||||||||||
| Service Employees International Union (SEIU). | |||||||||||
| Seward Café. | |||||||||||
| Seward - Spokes. | |||||||||||
| Sisters Camelot. | |||||||||||
| Strategy skills - share, January 2004. | |||||||||||
| Strategy workshop for GLBTQ. | |||||||||||
| St. Louis justice and peace shares. | |||||||||||
| Student Environmental Action Coalition (SEAC) activist conference, 2003. | |||||||||||
| Sustainable activism. | |||||||||||
| Sweet Home C-Housing. | |||||||||||
| Training of Social Action Trainers (TSAT). 1999, 2009-2012. 9 folders. | |||||||||||
| United for Peace march and Iraqi pledge. | |||||||||||
| Virginia Organization of Consumers Asserting Leadership (VOCAL) retreat. | |||||||||||
| Voluntown Peace Trust. | |||||||||||
| Welfare reform. | |||||||||||
| Wells College. | |||||||||||
| Youth Against War and Racism. | |||||||||||
| Zephyr Community Farm. | |||||||||||
| Zephyr Community Land Trust. | |||||||||||
CATALOG HEADINGS
This collection is indexed under the following headings in the catalog of the Minnesota Historical Society. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons or places should search the catalog using these headings.
- Topics:
- Consultants -- Minnesota.
- Consulting firms -- Minnesota.
- Cooperative societies -- Minnesota.
- Green movement.
- Peace movements.
- Small business -- Minnesota.
- Social advocacy.
- Social change.
- Social justice.
- Persons:
- Raasch-Gilman, Betsy, author.
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