FutureGood Referral Program

FutureGood Referral Program

FutureGood values referrals from staff, strategists, clients, and friends of the organization. When you introduce us to an organization that becomes a paying client, we say thank you with a 5% referral fee.

Registering a referral means you agree to the terms below. 

What Qualifies as a Referral

A referral is a direct introduction to an organization (or a department within an organization) we haven't been in touch with before, where your introduction is the reason they end up hiring us.

You make the introduction. We take it from there — the sales conversations, the proposal, the contract, and the project design.

Registering a Referral

Tell us before you make the introduction, or at the same time.

Email [email protected] with the name of the organization and the person you're introducing us to. 

Charitable Alternative

Some people aren't allowed or do not wish to accept a referral fee. 

We'll make a charitable donation of five percent (5%) of Collected Fees instead, on the same schedule.

Thank you for helping us connect more organizations to the power of strategic visioning, futurism, and future-focused leadership!

The Fine Print

Our decisions. We decide who's eligible. If it's ever unclear whether your introduction led to the work, or two people register the same organization, we'll make the call — and we won't split a fee. These decisions are final.

Registering. Register before or when you make the introduction; if it isn't registered and confirmed, no fee is owed. The client must sign within eighteen months of the day you register, or the referral expires.

What we pay. The fee is based on Collected Fees — what we actually receive, not reimbursed expenses, travel, subcontractor or pass-through costs, sales tax, or late fees; refunds and reversals reduce them. You earn as we get paid, and we'll send payment within thirty days after the end of the month the client pays us. If the client never pays, no fee is owed. If we overpay, we'll offset a future fee or ask you to return the difference within thirty days.

One contract. The fee covers the first contract only — not renewals, extensions, or later projects. One exception: if your introduction opens a genuinely new department, program, affiliate, or division of an organization we already work with, we may pay a fee, confirmed in writing.

When there's no fee. There's none if the organization found us on their own — our website, marketing, an event, any outreach they started — or if they were already a client, prospect, or in conversation with us when you registered. Same for a former client who returns, or moves to a new organization and contacts us themselves, and for renewals or continuations of work we already do. And there's no fee if the introduction grew out of work you were already doing for or with FutureGood, or your regular job duties — including business development, marketing, and client-relationship work.

If you work at FutureGood. You can refer, but you can't take part in any decision about the project — whether we pursue it, how we price it, what's in the proposal, whether we sign — and you can't supervise anyone who does. We pay staff fees through payroll, with normal withholding. A fee doesn't count toward salary, bonus, commission, retirement, or leave, and doesn't guarantee another. If you leave before all installments are paid, we'll decide the rest case by case.

If you're a strategist or contractor. Work that comes out of what you already do for us isn't eligible. A fee is separate from your contract pay, not an advance on it, and doesn't change your independent-contractor status.

Charitable alternative. Prefer not to take a fee, or can't? We'll donate 5% of Collected Fees to a 501(c)(3) in FutureGood's name instead — no tax deduction or receipt for you. We won't donate where you or a close family member is an officer, director, trustee, or employee, won't cover a pledge you've made, and won't accept recognition that benefits you.

Taxes and paperwork. We need a completed W-9 (or a W-8BEN / W-8BEN-E if you're not a U.S. person) before we can pay. We report fees as the law requires and send a 1099 where the threshold applies; taxes on your fee are yours to handle. If your paperwork doesn't reach us within twelve months of a fee becoming payable, it's forfeited.

Outside the U.S. Withholding and treaty rules may apply. If paying you would create a compliance, currency, or sanctions problem we can't reasonably solve, we may decline or donate instead. Payments go out in U.S. dollars by check or ACH; any bank or conversion fees are yours.

Ground rules. We won't pay a government official or employee, or anyone where being paid would break the law, an employer's policy, or a funder's rule — and by taking part you confirm it's allowed for you and you've made any disclosure you owe. A referral doesn't make you part of FutureGood, so please don't present yourself as our agent, discuss pricing, make commitments, or promise what we'll deliver — just send the introduction. Keep anything non-public you learn (pricing, proposals, clients, prospects) private and use it only for the introduction, even after the program ends; share a prospect's information only if you're allowed to.

Legal basics. We may change, pause, or end the program anytime, but that won't undo a referral we've confirmed or a fee you've earned. You can't assign or sell your right to a fee without our written consent. These terms are the full agreement, replace earlier understandings, and are governed by California law, with disputes handled in California courts. If one part doesn't hold up, the rest stands; not enforcing something once doesn't waive it later. The tax, agency, confidentiality, and governing-law terms survive the program's end. Registering means you've read and agree to these terms as they stand, confirm taking part is allowed for you, and that what you've told us is accurate.