Abstract
As we look around us in America and the world, much of what is important to us is already broken or is endangered, much of it unnecessarily so.  Because it is people who have broken much of the world and endangered its future, it is people that can and must fix what is broken and build a survivable and thriving future.  This is our moral imperative.   

People’s behavior is the key to creating and sustaining large, positive, and timely change for a thriving future.  People’s behavior is what most endangers our future; people’s behavior is also what offers the best chance to change and build a thriving future. 

But for transformation  and the human behavior that brings about that change to occur, people must be motivated and able.  Thrive! is a great endeavor and the  motivating call for action by our leaders, all of us together, and each of us  viaFuture provides “next generation” strategy and the  enabling framework and strategy for creating that large, positive, and timely change.  While helpful to issues (e.g., health) and subpopulations (e.g., the vulnerable), the framework and strategy are especially helpful for whole communities (including non-geographic populations, towns, cities, counties, states, regions, nations and the whole world).  Three examples demonstrate their use:  Building a Healthy America, Vulnerable in America, and Building a Thriving Community. 

We are now at a “tipping point” when our future is most endangered and we are most capable Large, positive and timely change  must happen now.  Creating and sustaining a thriving future requires understanding that it is us. who have broken the present and endangered the future.  It is only us, working together on this great endeavor, that can create and sustain the necessary large, positive and timely change for building a thriving future for all of us