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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!
Creating the Future’s Community Engagement planning work will continue on Friday, July 11th at 9am Pacific time. To participate in that meeting (or to just watch) scroll to the bottom of this screen for details. If you are just tuning in to our Community Engagement Planning process, welcome! To prepare you and provide some background, … Read more
What does it take to build real collaborations, where trust and exploration and learning together lead to pooling resources to make great things happen? These 3 foundation leaders spent time with Creating the Future’s founder, Hildy Gottlieb, to share their thinking about the factors that lead to collaboration, and ultimately, to making a bigger difference … Read more
You have written proposals for your program. You are confident you will find the funding you need. But for now, you are waiting. Or perhaps you are waiting on the results of your big annual event, the cash from which will carry your organization for many months. The longer you wait, the louder you hear … Read more
We will continue Creating the Future's Community Engagement planning work on Wednesday June 25th at 11am Pacific time. To participate in that meeting (or to just watch) scroll to the bottom of this screen. Per the planning format described in this post, the process we are using follows Creating the Future's causality framework. Determine what we … Read more
On May 14, 2014, Creating the Future held its first planning session for our own community engagement plan. (You can watch / listen to that meeting here, and follow along the tweet stream.) We followed the simple steps in this “How to Craft a Community Engagement Plan” blog post. 1) Determine what you want the … Read more
Creating the Future's board meeting will happen right here on Monday, June 9th at 1pm EDT. Scroll to the bottom of this post to watch it live. To share your ideas, questions, and observations, tweet to the hashtag #CTFuture. Board Packet Materials: • Agenda • Board Report: Video Good day to you! Let’s start … Read more
Last week, in Creating the Future’s Facebook group for consultants to community benefit orgs, an article from Forbes titled Are You Dealing With A Real Expert Or A Fake? 7 Ways To Tell led to an interesting discussion. The list included this at #2: Real experts have no trouble saying: “I don’t know.” That led to an interesting … Read more
At our most recent board meeting for Creating the Future, we took time to deeply explore the role financial management, reporting, and leadership should play in the organization. As a demonstration project exploring what could be possible for all boards, we spend a fair amount of time engaged in a process talking about process. I personally … Read more
It’s time for another strategic plan – yay! Wait, that wasn’t your reaction? Is it because you didn’t enjoy your last planning sessions? Or because that last plan didn’t really make a difference? If you are frustrated by the lack of significant results from your prior plans, and you’re not looking forward to your group’s … Read more
At our most recent board meeting for Creating the Future, we took time to deeply explore the role financial management, reporting, and leadership should play in the organization. As a demonstration project exploring what could be possible for all boards, we spend a fair amount of time engaged in a process talking about process. I personally … Read more