Creating the Future By: Debra Beck, EdD We recruit our nonprofit board members, in part, for the potential represented in their personal, professional and community connections. We gravitate to their rich expertise and skills. But too often, we confine them to the boardroom and a stifling list of passive roles that do anything but engage them. If our … Read more
To read a complete transcript of the rich discussions that happened during this meeting, click here. Background Overall background for our web strategy is here. The video of Meeting #2 is here. You’ll find a summary of Meeting #1 here. The video of Meeting #1 is here. Strategy Process Our web strategy process will use … Read more
LISTEN TO THE MEETING HERE or Download the MP3 (To download to your hard drive, right-click {or click and hold on a Mac} on the link above and select “Save Target As”.. or “Save Link as”… depending on your browser) At its February board meeting last month, Creating the Future’s board discussed their priorities for … Read more
We’re getting ready for the February meeting of Creating the Future’s board of directors on Monday, February 9th at 10:00 am Pacific Time. You’ll be able to watch our board meeting live at this post. Before describing the guts of the meeting, let us offer a bit of context. Like many boards of community benefit … Read more
LISTEN TO THE AUDIO HERE or Download the MP3 (To download to your hard drive, right-click {or click and hold on a Mac} on the link above and select “Save Target As”.. or “Save Link as”… depending on your browser) Our next website strategy Google Hangout meeting will take place at this post on Wednesday, February … Read more
In preparation for Creating the Future’s web strategy work, we hope this information is helpful. First, this quick video describes the approach we’ll be taking to accomplishing our mission, as well as our work over the next few years to accomplish that. (If you’d like to look at / print out the SlideShare for that … Read more
We have found a treasure trove of free online research, and we just had to share! Research about hunger and transportation. And about economic development and the environment. And pretty much any area of focus that has to do with changing the world! IssueLab is an online resource with over 16,000 articles available – for free, … Read more
This post is part of an ongoing series inviting social change funders and investors to recreate how social change is resourced, to align the values of their means with their intended ends. To read about this effort from its inception, head to this post at our Philanthropy blog. For all posts related to rethinking philanthropy … Read more
How could your annual planning create the future of your community? And how is that different from the planning most organizations already do? Gayle Valeriote has been doing just that kind of planning with organizations across North America. In the February edition of the Making Change vid-cast, Gayle will be joined by the leaders of two … Read more
Our February board meeting will happen right here at this post on Monday, February 9th at 10:00 a.m. Pacific Time (NA) // 1:00 p.m. Eastern Time (NA). This month we’ll be welcoming a new board member and developing the board’s “work plan” for 2015. Here is February 2015 Creating the Future Board Agenda. And this … Read more