AGENDA

We’ll spend two dynamic days exploring emerging stakeholder engagement trends. The Future 500 team will present our 2025 Force for Good Forecast Report, sharing insights into how the US Presidential elections and global geopolitical realignment may shift donor and NGO priorities in the US and abroad, and manifest in challenges for different companies in the room. We will then hear from NGO and corporate leaders at the forefront of advocacy and sustainable business.

Sessions Include:

Future 500 Force For Good Forecast Trends

From growing geopolitical tensions and associated supply chain disruptions, to rising litigation against companies, escalating environmental activism funding, uncertainty in the future of climate disclosure laws, and much more, business leaders must tackle a suite of ever complex challenges to ensure a resilient and stable society. The Future 500 team will share our 2025 Force For Good Forecast, outlining some of the critical issues we anticipate confronting companies in 2025 and beyond, how NGO advocates and their funders will react, and how businesses should consider engaging to navigate potential challenges

Preview of NGO Marketplace Campaigns during Trump 2.0 with Mighty Earth Founder and CEO, Glenn Hurowitz

Glenn will share how his group’s “theory of change” is built to withstand political shifts, noting that many of their marketplace successes are independent of U.S. government action or who is president. He’ll outline plans to spur private sector action to protect nature, promote industrial decarbonization, and counter what he sees as growing threats to civil society globally. He’ll also offer insight into how the US Supreme Court’s Loper Bright decision influences Mighty Earth’s strategy.

Human Health as the Frame for Environmental Activism with Emmie Mediate, Chief Program Officer from Health Care Without Harm

Emmie will explore how the interconnection of human and ecological health has emerged as the unifying frame for social and environmental activism. The session will help unpack how human health is becoming the foundation of global ecological stewardship and justice movements, from climate change and microplastics to chemicals and deforestation.