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Welcome to Bridge to the Future
We work to achieve comprehensive community change.
Every community has assets and potential as well as needs and challenges.
OUR STARTING POINT
Our starting point is simple. We believe that a holistic approach is necessary to achieve even relatively small changes in a community. This is because communities are dynamic living organisms and they are resistant to one-dimensional interventions.
In general, everyone wants employment, an education for themselves and their family, a good place to live, and community life. So our initial mapping of a community's potential, assets, needs, and opportunities focuses on these areas:
EMPLOYMENT
EDUCATION
NEIGHBORHOOD
COMMUNITY LIFE

Each community has its own eco-system and an ego-system. They interact with each other, shape what is done, how and with whom. They determine whose voices are heard and whose are not. Understanding a community’s eco and ego systems is a fundamental part of our approach.
UNDERSTANDING ECO AND EGO SYSTEMS

All communities, even those that are striving to fight decline, have under-utilized human assets, untapped potential, and pride in their narrative. BTF works to activate these assets, and re-establish an effective 3-way partnerships between residents, the local council and national government.
CREATING EFFECTIVE 3-WAY PARTNERSHIPS
THE BTF WORKFLOW
We have taken the Agile workflow from industry and adapted it to suit the dynamics of community change. Each change leads to another and another..
There is a general direction of travel but no pre-determined outcome.
COMMUNITY ANALYSIS
BTF incorporates grounded, state of the art analysis tools such as GEAR, POISE and PCB. It constructs an in-depth picture of the collective and individual strengths and potential.READ MORE
IDENTIFY POTENTIAL
Successful, and most importantly, sustainable changes should address the needs and sensitivities of actors coming from three main arenas; civic, bureaucratic and political. READ MORE
TRUST MANAGEMENT
Trust is the most fundamental resource for social networking and community development. READ MORE
CHANGE FACILITATION
Change Facilitation is the ability to nourish change, and relies on authentic community potential. Therefore change cannot be imposed. It has to be identified, facilitated and correlated to combined interests.
CAPACITY BUILDING
Capacity building is the actualization of ability. The objective is to create sustainable capacity that is based on a mutual vision and shared interest.
OWNERSHIP
Ownership is a sense of consensus on leadership and direction while understanding and perusing the benefit of synergetic action.
FADE OUT
The stage of fading out is a crucial stage in facilitation. It is defined and organized together with relevant actors and the due setting is unique for each intervention.