Hildy Gottlieb Yesterday I lamented that we all feel we don’t have time to think. And that the reason we don’t have time to think is that we don’t make time to think. Which is to say that we don’t value thinking near as much as we value doing. Nowhere is this more evident than in the … Read more
The conversation I shared yesterday, with a young social change agent trying to find his path, brought up for me an issue that is glaringly absent in almost all discussions of “best practice” in the social change arena. Put simply, we devalue thinking, exploring, experimenting. What we value is “doing.” When individuals take time for … Read more
Just a quick update for those who have been helping us raise money to purchase the domain names CreatingTheFuture.com/.org. We have almost doubled last week’s total – a huge leap forward! After some last-minute giving via Facebook and Twitter, the total in the Domain Campaign fund is (drumroll please…) $3,000 exactly! (Thanks to some folks … Read more
This was just going to be a quick post to update everyone on our progress in raising money to purchase the domain names CreatingTheFuture.org and .com. But something happened this morning that moved me so deeply, that I wanted to share. So first, I hope you will bear with me as I share a story. … Read more
People in the community benefit sector, all over the world, are doing the work that makes our communities livable, joyful, warm and inviting and healthy and strong. This sector’s work is about compassion, resilience, health. It is about vibrancy, humanity. Our work is about caring for children, for the elderly. For people living with illness, … Read more
The following is a post that CharityChannel CEO Steve Nill posted to CharityChannel’s Consultants forum this morning, as he considered the work we are proposing with the CDI Demonstration Project. Because CharityChannel is only available by paid subscription, Steve had copied his post into the comments here. After re-reading Steve’s thought-filled post several times, I … Read more
So much of the discussion of yesterday’s Name Change blog post happened in the comments, that I’m making this a separate post. If you haven’t read those comments, please do so here. The conversation truly took my breath away. In that discussion you will see that we are going to move forward to raise money … Read more
If you are new to the issue we are addressing in this post – changing the name of the Community-Driven Institute – come up to speed here. Well this is it – we believe we have finally found the name that says what this organization is about at its core. With that, several key decisions … Read more
I confess that sometimes even this Pollyanna gets fed up. I don’t get fed up with the same things as most people in this field, though. I get fed up with blame and intolerance. I get fed up with pointing fingers at symptoms, focusing and refocusing on addressing those symptoms, drilling deeper and deeper, unpacking … Read more
Renaming the Community-Driven Institute has become a combination of deep analysis and serendipity. None of that would have happened to the extent it has happened without the input of everyone reading and participating in this discussion. So first, thank you. Second, if you have any doubts about the value of transparent engagement – sharing the … Read more