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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!
When groups begin aiming their work at making more of a difference in their community, they quickly realize that none of us can accomplish much on our own. Individual organizations begin reaching out to others doing similar work. They hold summits and host ongoing discussions. They create plans. Often, great things happen from that work. … Read more
The first-ever, last-minute, Creating the Future year-end appeal is now officially over. Yes, if you still want to give, your funds will be hugely appreciated. But we have stopped the fireworks, the tweeting, the videos, the letters. We have declared victory, with just $1,000 in the bank from this campaign. No, that is nowhere close … Read more
Our open, transparent year-end appeal is happening! As of this morning, we had topped $1,000 in our last-minute appeal. We are excited! Our commitment has been to share our strategy, our targets, our goals and our progress. And while I blogged our goals and budget last week, we are learning that doing a campaign with … Read more
Fundraising – the place where everyone feels they have to hide, work competitively, and whatever they do, NOT to share what they learn (lest they lose their competitive advantage!). Well I guess we will just see if that is the case! As we announced last week, we will be doing our year-end fundraising appeal entirely … Read more
I thought it was going to be easy. Yes, I know, famous last words, but I really did. In a post early last week, I asked whether or not we should do a year-end fundraising appeal. We received many responses to that post (sadly, most of those responses were off-line – what is it about … Read more
As I noted in yesterday’s post, Dimitri’s and my decision to immediately begin running Creating the Future full time means we need to start fundraising, and fast! (Truth is we probably needed to start fundraising months ago, but starting now will just have to do…) And so, given that it’s the end of the … Read more
Last week I posted the list of all we accomplished this year. In that whole long list, there is one thing we hadn’t expected – something that became clear only when we not only considered what we had accomplished, but considered what’s next. When we set our goals at the beginning of 2010, we had … Read more
Last year we began a tradition I am eager to uphold – creating the WOW List, to publicly celebrate all we accomplished towards our goals throughout the year. Those of you who have been following our work have a sense that this year totally kicked butt at Creating the Future. When you look at the … Read more
It’s Monday! This is not an ordinary Monday, though. On this day between the Halloween that took over this past weekend and the US Election Day we will face tomorrow, today we have a moment to rest, to see more clearly. A month ago, I posted about the solace and meaning we can find in each … Read more
Something surprising happened to me this week. I was preparing a pre-reading list for a client – the list of readings and video clips that allow our precious face-to-face time to be more meaningful. This workshop will be about engagement, and so I flipped through the books I’ve written on those subjects, to cite pages … Read more