Creating the Future’s Program Evaluation
Friday, November 13, 2026
10am-12pm Pacific time / 1pm-3pm Eastern time
Watch the meeting LIVE right here at this post.
Just scroll to the very bottom of the page.
Details about how to participate are below.
Creating the Future is stepping into our final demonstration project – evaluating and documenting everything we have learned from the 30 demonstration projects we’ve done since our inception. And we hope you will follow along and participate in that project! (Background is here.)
As we begin this effort, all sorts of questions arise.
- What shall we evaluate? What shall we document?
- What did we really learn?
- Who are we evaluating for?
- What do those individuals and groups need from the case studies that will result from this effort?
And as always, the bottom-line question:
- Why bother? Why is this important to do? And important for whom?
As we step into this project, clearly the most important people to ask and answer these questions is YOU. And of course, that leads us to one more question:
- What does it look like when our community determines what they want our evaluation to reveal?
That’s why last month, we posted this invitation, asking our community members to be the design team for this effort. The folks who responded to that invitation will begin meeting this week.
And you are invited to join us via live-stream and your comments at YouTube!
How to Prepare
First, let us know if you plan to attend by sending a note at this link.
Second, please look through the links throughout this post, to familiarize yourself with the topic at hand.
Third, if you are not familiar with Catalytic Thinking, the following will be helpful:
The Catalytic Thinking Framework is described at this link, with links to videos and other documents that can help you understand the framework. You can also check out the questions that guide Catalytic Thinking at this link . We recommend having those questions available during the meeting, to spark your thinking during the discussion.
2 Ways to participate
If you have never been part of Creating the Future’s work, all our strategy and board meetings are open and participatory, for anyone who wants to be part of the discussion. You can see more about that at this link.
Where we meet:
The meeting will take place online via Zoom. You can watch it right here at this post. If the video does not appear precisely on time, please be patient – we are probably just running a few minutes late.
There are 2 ways you can participate in this meeting.
- Watch the live-stream in real time and share your questions and ideas to us in the chat stream in YouTube. We read those comments aloud during the meeting, just as if you were there.
To participate in this way, come to this page at the time of the meeting. You will see the meeting streaming at the bottom of the page here. At the bottom of that video, you will see the words “Watch on YouTube.” Click through, and you can follow directly on YouTube and comment there.
(Please note: We will only see your comments if you type them at the Youtube page of the live stream. During the meeting, we will NOT look at blog comments here at this post. While we will check those comments later, during the meeting we will only be following the comments at Youtube.)
- If you want to simply watch, or you want to think about what you’re hearing and respond later – or if you will be watching the recording after the meeting happens – please add your thoughts into the comments here at this post. We will include that thinking into the mix of things once the meeting is over.
We look forward to your being part of the discussion!
Watch the meeting HERE on Friday, November 13th
Note: if the meeting does not start on time please be patient as we may be running a few minutes late.