Creating the Future Creating the Future’s Community Engagement planning work will continue on Friday, July 11th at 9am Pacific time. To participate in that meeting (or to just watch) scroll to the bottom of this screen for details. If you are just tuning in to our Community Engagement Planning process, welcome! To prepare you and provide some background, … Read more
What does it take to build real collaborations, where trust and exploration and learning together lead to pooling resources to make great things happen? These 3 foundation leaders spent time with Creating the Future’s founder, Hildy Gottlieb, to share their thinking about the factors that lead to collaboration, and ultimately, to making a bigger difference … Read more
You have written proposals for your program. You are confident you will find the funding you need. But for now, you are waiting. Or perhaps you are waiting on the results of your big annual event, the cash from which will carry your organization for many months. The longer you wait, the louder you hear … Read more
We will continue Creating the Future's Community Engagement planning work on Wednesday June 25th at 11am Pacific time. To participate in that meeting (or to just watch) scroll to the bottom of this screen. Per the planning format described in this post, the process we are using follows Creating the Future's causality framework. Determine what we … Read more
On May 14, 2014, Creating the Future held its first planning session for our own community engagement plan. (You can watch / listen to that meeting here, and follow along the tweet stream.) We followed the simple steps in this “How to Craft a Community Engagement Plan” blog post. 1) Determine what you want the … Read more
Last week, in Creating the Future’s Facebook group for consultants to community benefit orgs, an article from Forbes titled Are You Dealing With A Real Expert Or A Fake? 7 Ways To Tell led to an interesting discussion. The list included this at #2: Real experts have no trouble saying: “I don’t know.” That led to an interesting … Read more
To skip directly to the meeting, head to the bottom of this post. The meeting will appear there at 1pm PT on May 14th. If we're a few minutes late, please be patient – like all meetings everywhere, some start late. To participate, tweet to the hashtag #CTFuture. See you there! How can we find … Read more
What roles, structures and functions are the backbone of support for online communities that are thriving – where people feel safe to explore and learn together, and to just be themselves with one another? In our first meeting on this topic, we described what “thriving” would look like in online communities. And in our second … Read more
The first-ever Creating the Future conference – a fully co-created effort with the Pennsylvania Association of Nonprofit Orgs (PANO) – is happening this Monday and Tuesday. And with the theme of The Power of We, YOU will be a big part of this event, wherever you are! Live-streaming of the Plenary Sessions (right here!) Follow the … Read more
In Hildy's report to the board for the April meeting, she shared a five-year perspective since our first immersion course in April 2009. For those who prefer the Cliff Notes version of just the past year, please enjoy 2013's top accomplishments. And please click here to see how you would like to participate in this work … Read more