Leadership through Governance
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Leadership Through Governance
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
Creating a Website from Scratch – Part 2 – Learnings
This post is part of an ongoing series as we develop a web strategy with the intent to blow up our website and start over. For other posts in this category, click here. Our second web strategy meeting included “aha” after “aha.” It’s hard to believe that a web strategy meeting could be dubbed “inspiring,” … Read more
Servant Leadership – The Making Change Broadcast
LISTEN TO THE BROADCAST 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) (To download to your hard drive, right-click {or click and hold on a Mac} on … Read more
Creating a Website from Scratch – Part 3
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
Board Meeting – March 2015
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
Creating a Website from Scratch – Part 1 – Learnings
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
Developing the board's "work plan" for 2015
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
Creating a Website from Scratch – Part II
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
Web Strategy Work – Background Info
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