Current e-Journal – October 01, 2025 Remember to Celebrate In this week’s Systems Change Newsletter… Invitations and Announcements Catalytic Thinking Exercise: Remember to Celebrate Resources to Further Your Practice Invitations and Announcements: New Zealand and Australia: Creating the Future is Coming to YOU! In a special series this November and December, Creating the Future will … Read more
Current e-Journal – September 24, 2025 Ask for what you really want In this week’s Systems Change Newsletter… Invitations and Announcements Catalytic Thinking Exercise: Ask for what you really want Resources to Further Your Practice Stepping into your POWER in these dark times Life is pretty harrowing for changemakers right now. Whipsawed by government policy … Read more
Current e-Journal – September 16, 2025 Are you EXCLUDING your community from your planning? “Keep out” by Combe Lane by Derek Harper, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons In this week’s Systems Change Newsletter… Invitations and Announcements Catalytic Thinking Exercise: Are You EXCLUDING Your Community from Your Planning? Resources to Further Your Practice New Webinar: Stepping … Read more
Current e-Journal – September 02, 2025 The Important Question Strategic Planning Never Asks In this week’s podcast episode, strategy and connection guru May Miller-Dawkins explores questions that lead to deep connection and dramatic results. That powerful combination of strategy, connection, and a focus on results is what we all wish for when we enter into … Read more
Current e-Journal – August 19, 2025 In this week’s Systems Change Newsletter… Invitations and Announcements Catalytic Thinking Exercise: Opening the Door to Your Community Resources to Further Your Practice Invitations and Announcements: Documenting Program Learnings (aka Evaluation) The final phase of Creating the Future’s mission is about documenting what we’ve learned and sharing it broadly. After … Read more
Current e-Journal – August 05, 2025 4 Assets You Can Build Upon RIGHT NOW In this week’s Systems Change Newsletter… Invitations and Announcements Catalytic Thinking Exercise: 4 Assets You Can Build Upon RIGHT NOW Resources to Further Your Practice Invitations and Announcements: Using AI for Nonprofit Evaluation At the next meeting of our Integrity Team … Read more
Current e-Journal – July 22, 2025 Toxic Polarization and the Stories We Tell Ourselves In this week’s Systems Change Newsletter… Invitations and Announcements Catalytic Thinking Exercise: Toxic Polarization and the Stories We Tell Ourselves Resources to Further Your Practice Money and Politics and Churches The IRS is preparing to allow churches to endorse candidates (and … Read more
Current e-Journal – July 08, 2025 That’s an awesome question! In this week’s Systems Change Newsletter… Invitations and Announcements Catalytic Thinking Exercise: That’s an awesome question! Resources to Further Your Practice Invitations & Announcements How the U.S. Budget Bill will affect nonprofits around the world Last week, the U.S. Congress passed a sweeping bill that … Read more
Current e-Journal – July 01, 2025 What if creating social change means YOU need to change? x What does it really mean to “be the change you want to see in the world”? Including Gandhi’s quote as part of your email signature is one thing. But it is quite something else to actually – well … Read more
Current e-Journal – June 17, 2025 When group work is like herding cats In this week’s Systems Change Newsletter… Invitations and Announcements Catalytic Thinking Exercise: When group work is like herding cats Resources to Further Your Practice Invitations & Announcements What builds strong, healthy coalitions? In this week’s podcast, Vitalyst Health Foundation’s David Martinez shares … Read more