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Future Perfect seeks to tell stories about the world’s problems — problems that are big and neglected, and that most people in the US don’t hear about nearly often enough. These are problems where tremendous progress is possible with just a bit more resources and attention.

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Thanks to support from the BEMC Foundation — a grant-making organization committed to outstanding charities and causes promoting high-impact opportunities for saving and improving lives throughout the world — Future Perfect brought in our first class of fellows in 2021 and added more staff. We’ve also engaged in greater collaboration with Vox Video and Vox’s The Weeds podcast, and are gearing up for an expansion of the Future Perfect podcast and the continuation of the fellows program in the coming months.

In 2022, Future Perfect received a grant from Building a Stronger Future, a family foundation run by Sam and Gabe Bankman-Fried, to support a project on technological and innovation bottlenecks that hamper human progress. This project is now paused.

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