Creating the Future Updating the Bylaws – three words that send shivers to the soul. Leaders of entities that legally require bylaws quickly relegate the task to a committee (with a mix of appreciation and condolences) or to the organization’s attorney. During its November meeting, Creating the Future’s board (along with participating guests Regina Birdsell, Heather Tunis and … Read more
Updating the Bylaws – three words that send shivers to the soul. Leaders of entities that legally require bylaws quickly relegate the task to a committee (with a mix of appreciation and condolences) or to the organization’s attorney. During its November meeting, Creating the Future’s board (along with participating guests Regina Birdsell, Heather Tunis and … Read more
On Tuesday, December 3rd at 4pm ET, our Faculty Development team will continue its work, as our first cohort of teachers does the work to develop a FlashClass from scratch. FlashClasses are 20-30 minute recorded webinars, with post-class handouts and Q&A via our Facebook page. Their purpose is an in-depth introduction to a narrowly defined concept. For … Read more
Our December board meeting is Monday, December 9 at 1pm ET(NA). To join in the conversation, watch for the video stream to appear at the end of this post. To ask questions, to share observations, to participate as part of our community – tweet to us using the hashtag #CTFuture. For the video describing the agenda … Read more
On Thursday, December 5th at 3pm ET, we’ll be debriefing our participation in this year's BoardSource conference. The video of that session will appear at the bottom of this post at the time of the meeting. To participate, tweet to #CTFuture. This year for the first time in many many years, BoardSource opened their conference … Read more
At today's meeting, Creating the Future's board will continue to the link between bylaws and the role of the board. Going through our original boilerplate bylaws section by section, what does each sections say about the role of the board in this organization? What systems and practices will support that role? To see the discussion … Read more
We are excited to find someone who loves governance and wants to help Creating the Future's board as our Recording Secretary / Documentarian. And while we will be posting this to Idealist.org in the next few days, we didn't want to waste a moment before posting it here. If you find boards and governance issues … Read more
Creating the Future's Faculty Development Team will continue its work right here, on Monday, October 21st at Noon Pacific time / 3pm Eastern time. After many months of meeting, and after many more months of processing what we have been discussing, our first cohort of instructors will begin preparing to teach on behalf of Creating … Read more
What conditions allow disparate individuals to gracefully become a community that brings out the best in every participant? Join us on Thursday, October 17 at 12noon ET (NA) to continue our exploration into that question! Meeting #4 of our Building Thriving Online Communities team will continue our discussion of turning conditions for success into practical … Read more
What would a community-wide capacity building initiative look like if it aimed not at organizational capacity but at community capacity? And what would it take to make that so? These are the questions a group of us gathered to explore in late August, towards the end goal of a possible demonstration project – a proof … Read more