About Future Milwaukee

Future Milwaukee is a community leadership development program with more than 1,400 graduates. For over 30 years, participants have been making an impact on the Greater Milwaukee area through their leadership positions in government, business, higher education, religious and non-profit institutions.

As a measure of the organization’s success and status, beginning in 2005, Future Milwaukee became affiliated with Marquette University’s College of Professional Studies. Marquette's leadership development programming is professionally developed, is measured on its effective outcomes and qualifies for continuing education credits in many professions.

Our mission is to develop, motivate and empower diverse, ethical leaders who create positive change in greater Milwaukee through effective civic engagement.

Future Milwaukee’s graduates represent every facet of community diversity:

• Ethnic diversity: 38 percent people of color (including African-Americans, Latinos, Native Americans, and those from the Asian-Pacific and Indian subcontinent)
• Gender diversity: 60 percent women; 40 percent men
• People with disabilities
• Age diversity from early 20s to mid-60s
• Employment diversity: 50 percent from private sector; 40 percent from non-profit sector; 10 percent from government sector
• Geographic diversity from the four-county greater Milwaukee area