Building a Thriving Organizational Ecosystem

Creating the Future is reinventing itself, to ensure our organizational structure is not only supporting our efforts to accomplish our mission, but is modeling our vision and values in every way. The following summarizes our efforts through the end of 2015, as we head into our January 2016 meeting on the subject. For a complete … Read more

January 2016 Board / Community Meeting

At our December meeting, we made great strides in determining the pre-conditions for success if our organizing structure is to accomplish our mission. We will be blogging as summary of that meeting in the next day or two – including a schematic of what that structure might look like. During our meeting on January 11th, … Read more

Organizational Structure – Questions for the December 14th Discussion

In preparation for the continued discussion of the organizational structure that will support Creating the Future to accomplish its mission, the following are the questions we will be exploring during our meeting on Monday, December 14. • Within each aspects of our structure (listed below), what do people need to feel in order to bring … Read more

Organizational Structure That Accomplishes Change Board Meeting Dec-14

Creating the Future’s December Board / Community Meeting will take place right here on Monday, December 14th at 1pm ET / 10am PT. Watch the meeting live and share your ideas, questions, and observations by tweeting to the hashtag #CTFuture. If the video does not appear precisely on the hour, please be patient (and reload the … Read more

Feeling Prepared to Teach

Vision: The future your work is aimed at creating for the world. At Creating the Future, we envision a world where everyone is living well, individually and collectively. We know such a world is possible, simply because it is not impossible. Mission: The result you are vowing to accomplish – the condition(s) you are vowing … Read more

Collective Enoughness

We use the term “Collective Enoughness” so much at Creating the Future, as part of our Theory of Change and pretty much every action we take.  If you’ve been wondering about our definition of that term, here it is: Collective Enoughness The economic theory that together we have everything we need; it is only on … Read more

The BIG Meeting: November 5th

Creating the Future’s Special November Board Meeting will take place right here on Thursday, November 5th at 10am ET / 7am PT.  Scroll to the bottom of this post for details on how to watch and participate. “What leadership and management structures would support a movement for change vs. simply leading an organization?” “What could … Read more

Update from the Living Lab

Wow it has sure been a while since we provided an update on our work! We’ve become so accustomed to our meetings being the place where we communicate with the world. But with no board meeting since June (the video below and this post here explain why), we have been remiss in finding other ways to … Read more

Change the Questions, Change the World! (Video)

How can the questions we ask in our day-to-day work significantly enhance the quality of life in our communities? Earlier this year, Hildy spoke at Portland’s prestigious City Club, sharing some of the results of our research into what really creates change in communities. And it won’t be a surprise to learn that it’s all … Read more