LIBRARY RESOURCES & BLOG
This area is filled with how-to articles, engaging conversations, and tons of examples of Catalytic Thinking in Action including actual planning sessions. Much to explore and learn from!
On February 4th, Creating the Future held its first strategy meeting, to begin the process of blowing up our website and starting over. Because the point of our website will be to accomplish Creating the Future’s mission, we began by sharing this video about just that – what it will take to accomplish our mission … 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
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 here. For all posts related to rethinking philanthropy in general, click the category link here. … Read more
Creating the Future’s tagline is simple and powerful: Change the Questions, Change the World! Which of course then begs the question, “What are those questions?” The answers lie in our brand new white paper, Change the Questions, Change the World: Creating the Future’s Theory of Everything. Download it Now When you download the paper, you’ll find it is actually … 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