About FUTURES™

Futures Without Violence

For almost 40 years, Futures Without Violence (FUTURES) has been building healthier, safer and more prosperous communities.

Through innovative programs, award-winning public campaigns, and lasting policy gains, FUTURES advances change across 5 key pillars:

Preventing Violence Against Women and Children
Creating Positive Pathways for Men and Boys
Improving Quality Health Access at Every Age
Expanding Economic Opportunity
Building the Next Generation of Courageous Leaders

Because enduring change takes all of us, we work in partnership with others, including schools; employers; healthcare, legal and child welfare leaders; advocates; and communities—in places where it’s needed most.

And next year, we will open the Courage Museum in The Presidio National Park in San Francisco—in collaboration with renowned designer Jake Barton—to spark a movement of young changemakers ready to turn courage into action.

Leadership

As Founder and President of FUTURES, Esta Soler has made advancing health, preventing violence, and expanding economic opportunity national priorities, securing billions of dollars for life-saving services. Soler was a driving force behind the trailblazing Violence Against Women Act, and pioneered programs and strategies that helped reduce domestic violence against women by 60% over the past 30 years.

Under her leadership, Soler has made FUTURES a national powerhouse that drives culture and policy change to reduce violence against women and children, enlist men as allies, improve health outcomes including mental health, and inspire the next generation of courageous leaders. She is working to strengthen our health care and education systems, make workplaces safer, and more. Soler is a frequently sought-after speaker and has been featured in every major media outlet. She has served on numerous high-level government commissions and received many prestigious honors throughout her illustrious career.

Watch Esta’s TEDtalk charting 30 years of tactics and technologies—from the Polaroid camera to social media—that have shaped the movement to end domestic violence.