Social Organizations, Educational Institutions or NGOs that wish to participate within TFS programs and activities must express their commitment with sustainability goals, social justice and human rights. Mutual focus on education is a priority and includes providing the knowledge and skills to support the future employability of participating students.
Partnership agreements with participating universities and colleges are reviewed annually to evaluate performance within established goals, such as promoting their participation in social spheres addressing the needs in rural, urban or political contexts.
TFS may provide a space on its channels to promote participating social organizations whose work benefits the societies with which TFS and the organization are working together. The partner social organizations may also receive access to scholarships for their members in exchange for their collaboration.
Partnertship programs can be created to achieve the following goals:
For more information about partnership opportunities for educators, local leaders or researchers, please e-mail us at partnership [at] thefutureschool.org
Fundación Mapuche Nahuelbuta (Chile)
Is a chilean NGO created to promote and protect cultural values of the Mapuche culture, as protectors of the human treasure of “cordillera Nahuelbuta” (Great Jaguar mountain chain). They educate and invote to “dream together future collectives that cradle and cultivate peace, equity, respect, tenderness, a sense of belonging and responsibility with the natural world to build sustainable, resilient societies oriented to Good Living“.
Turismo Comunitario Pillankura (Chile)
A local entrepreneurship dedicated to offer historical and natural communitary tourism. Visitors and tourists can immerse in cultural expressions of the Mapuche people and take guided tours to the Nahuelbuta heights, tutelary peaks of the region in company of a thousand-year-old araucaria forest. The history of the Mapuche people tells of the adaptation and centennial knowledge of the natural environment and mother nature, as well as the records of the territorial presence of past times and the vision of the future.
Fundación OMAERE (Ecuador)
“Omaere” meaning “jungle nature”, is an Ecuadorian NGO founded in 1993, by 3 women, one Shuar and two from France. Together they bought and reforested 15ha of land to preserve important species for the Amazonic cultures. Today the NGO teaches and promotes the ways of life of Shuar and Waoranies cultures. It provides visitors and education organizations of Sustainability Education about sanitation and residual management.
Fundación Ruta de las Misiones (Chile)
Since 2003, this NGO has organized educational activities towards the promotion of the Aymara values, using previous routes of cultural exchange.
The Seminar Andean Temples: to thank, care and celebrate – Aim to celebrate the traditions from grandmothers and grandfathers, and work together to face the challenges towards the conservation and sustainable development that the planet needs
STUDY ABROAD SUMMER PROGRAMS
Climate Change Advocacy - Chilean Expedition
Happy City - Criteria for Urban Well-being
Costume Design for Theater & Film - Dressing it Up
Making it Better - Industrial Design
Occupation 101 - Three Case Studies
CULTURAL STUDY TOURS
Prague Stories - Literature & Film
Architectural Treasures - Medieval to Modern
Tradition in Fibers - Maintaining the Craft
Green for Life - Prague's Parks & Gardens
The Glass Route - Czech Masters
WORKSHOPS & OTHERS
The Power of Art & Design - Chile
Digital Art Tools - ONLINE
Watercolor in New Orleans
Write a Screenplay in Prague
Service Learning - Rural Development