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!
Last week, Creating the Future began its first Asset-Based Resource Development plan. As we begin developing new programs, we are soon going to be engaging in Asset-Based Program Development as well. Because all this planning is being done live online, and because folks will be able to follow along (and learn from) that planning at … Read more
The planning framework we use at Creating the Future turns most other planning frameworks inside out. Instead of beginning with today and moving forward to create goals (planning in reactive mode, responding to today’s issues), we instead begin at the future we want, tethering our plans to that future, and reverse engineering back to today. … Read more
Earlier this week, we attempted to begin Creating the Future’s plan for resource development – doing so live online, as we’ve begun doing with all our planning. Unfortunately, our planning session quickly became a learning opportunity about the technology of the broadcast, as we learned from someone who had been trying to participate that the … Read more
Today at 10am Mountain time US (12 noon ET) we will be live streaming our first meeting with Zach Braiker of Refine and Focus, to begin figuring out how to talk about Creating the Future. You will be able to watch that live-streamed discussion right here! (The video will appear as if by magic when … Read more
Today at 2:30 Mountain time US (4:30 ET) we will be live streaming our first meeting with Dave Svet of Spur Communications, to begin figuring out how to talk about Creating the Future. You will be able to watch that live-streamed discussion right here! (The video will appear as if by magic when the meeting … Read more
Two years ago, as one of Creating the Future’s first efforts at doing anything at all as an organization, we attempted a year-end appeal. Long time friends may recall that we shut down that appeal moments before “the biggest giving days of the year.” * We shut it down because it didn’t feel right. As a … Read more
Last month, Creating the Future finished its 3rd successful scholarship campaign at StartSomeGood.com – a crowdfunding platform that (unlike other more high profile platforms) is entirely focused on funding for social impact / changing the world. As we do with every venture we embark upon, we learn from every crowdfunding campaign we do. Herewith, in … Read more
This has been a year filled with community disaster. Given life on planet earth, one could say that almost any year. Earthquakes and hurricanes, shootings and riots and bombings – whether man-made or natural, from the time of the dinosaurs to today, life’s biggest occurrences are often outside our control. Perhaps the greatest lesson from … Read more
If we want to see communities where people are fully engaged, participating in their own lives and their own futures, what would it look like if that was modeled everywhere – starting with our own organization? This is a question that has been in the making at Creating the Future since the initial decision, before … Read more
The following is a reprint from a post by Hildy, originally penned back in 2003. It remains one of the most reprinted posts in the whole Creating the Future library. And it feels especially important to re-share now, as we approach the madness that is year-end. The Sound a Thank You Makes It was a crazy … Read more