Future Caucus

Future Caucus currently operates 34 state Future Caucus chapters, co-chaired by 2 bipartisan young lawmakers. The State Future Caucus Network is dedicated to fostering a space to cultivate connection, dialogue, and fertile ground for collaborative policymaking. Each caucus pursues a bipartisan policy agenda that proposes solutions to the problems that will impact future generations. Future Caucus also helps connect state lawmakers in the Future Caucus network to peers across state lines through virtual and in-person programming.

In September 2023, Future Caucus launched the Innovation Lab. The Innovation Lab serves as a hub for policy education and bridge-building on the issues that matter most to the next generation and the future of our democracy. As part of the Innovation Lab, Future Caucus also launched three Innovation Fellowships to cultivate the next generation of national leaders with the skills to build bipartisan coalitions and pass effective legislation. In this program's inaugural year, Future Caucus had 29 Innovation Fellows who focused on three issue areas with the help of more than 25 expert mentors.

Future Caucus leads efforts to organize the Congressional Future Caucus, our nation's first and only bipartisan caucus for young members of Congress, and its Hill staff counterpart, the 270+ member Millennial Action Staff Association. Representatives Sara Jacobs (D-CA) and Blake Moore (R-UT), who previously co-chaired the 117th Congress' Future Caucus, garnered attention as some of the most effective freshman members in 2021.

In July, we held our sixth-annual Future Summit, Future Caucus' national gathering of state lawmakers. Future Caucus convened a bipartisan group of 70 state legislators, hailing from 34 states, to gather with leading policy experts for a day of connection, innovation, and collaboration. The diverse group of participants shared their governing best practices and ideas on next-generation policies affecting young people across the country.

Our 6th Annual Rising Star Awards ceremony highlighted young leaders - one Republican and one Democrat - who embodied Future Caucus' vision of transcending toxic polarization, along with one outstanding state Future Caucus for their future-focused leadership and political bridge-building.

Future Caucus developed a digital leadership curriculum specifically tailored to meet the needs of young legislators. This suite of training programs focuses on leadership skills, mental well-being, and bridge- building, empowering them to be effective leaders ready to cultivate bipartisan relationships.

Future Caucus engaged with state lawmakers in Arkansas and Oklahoma as part of a fellowship designed to build resilience by facilitating healing on 3 levels: personal, political, and communal. The fellowship is designed to enable policymakers to learn tools to manage themselves, their teams, and their time; effectively navigate complexity within the legislature, lead healing in their communities, with each other, and within themselves; and help them grow as leaders both personally and professionally.

Inspired largely by the work of the Select Committee on the Modernization of Congress to bring civility back to politics, the Pluribus Fellowship brought together a bipartisan cohort of young policymakers to learn and practice the skills needed to be a successful leader.

The Policy Advisory Committees involve a carefully-selected group of driven leaders and young professionals who are dedicated to helping usher in a new post-partisan era. This group serves as MAP's "inner-circle" of Millennial advisors who embody our mission, while offering various resources, access to networks and strategic counsel supporting the growth and reach of the organization.

Future Caucus embarked on its inaugural "On the Rise" Tour, a roadshow designed to amplify and unify the voices of young lawmakers across the nation. Through these trips and conversations, we engaged over 50 Future Caucus members in dialogues around critical policy areas, including maternal health, workforce development, and criminal justice reform.

Future Caucus and the Greater Good Science Center (GGSC) at the University of California, Berkeley partnered to develop an intensive coaching and professional development cohort with members of the Oklahoma State Future Caucus. These sessions were designed to help this bipartisan cohort develop concrete tools that link skills like legislative negotiations, committee work, and constituent communications with deeper competencies of mindfulness, diversity, equity and inclusion (DEl), and emotional intelligence.

Future Caucus, in partnership with The One America Movement and David French, hosted a summit for religious leaders to support them to navigate and speak out against toxic polarization.

Future Caucus and Braver Angels explored ways to expand the types of issues upon which cross-partisan policy consensus can be found among young policymakers at the federal and state levels.

All-Volunteer Force 50th Anniversary Event: MAP has invested significant resources into building an inspiring narrative of a positive vision for young leaders changing the way we govern. This program includes PR strategy and support, leveraging national conferences for visibility, thought-leadership content, modeling a constructive civil dialogue, all complemented by a robust and growing social media strategy.

National Week of Action mobilizes young people from all corners of the country - in Congress, in state legislatures, and at the grassroots level - to join together and showcase examples of good governance, and build a new narrative around what effective collaboration looks like.