It’s official: Creating the Future is building its infrastructure and becoming a real live organization! Not that our efforts haven’t been “real” so far. It’s just that we have always felt like we’ve lived in two worlds. On the one side, we have always believed in our hearts that the Community Benefit Sector holds the … Read more
It’s time for us to do one of the most exciting things I can think of – recruit the founding board for Creating the Future! Yes, exciting. It’s exciting because a board means this organization is real (not that we don’t already have programs that are extremely real, and all the other stuff that says, … Read more
On August 1, I embarked on a month of “semi-sabbatical,” writing and exploring and planning and reading. I say “semi-sabbatical” because I only decided mid-July that the time was right. So there are still some tasks to be done, some projects with timelines that won’t allow me to simply abandon ship. This post is about … Read more
Last year, as we planned to incorporate the Community-Driven Institute as its own tax exempt organization, we considered all the steps new organizations take in the beginning – build a board, apply for tax exempt status, build sustainability (financial and otherwise), and a whole line-up of tasks beyond that. As we began that planning, the … Read more
What a ride we’ve been on! As you all encouraged in the blog post that started all this, 30 days ago we set out to raise $9,500 to purchase the domain names CreatingTheFuture.org and CreatingTheFuture.com. And I confess that when we started this final week of the campaign with just $3,500, we were more than … Read more
After all the discussion that led to our name change, it’s here! What do you think? Dimitri has been working to create a logo that matches the name you all helped us find. We are pretty excited about the simplicity, the sense of action, and the connection to the thing that matters most – creating … Read more
Just a quick update for those who have been helping us raise money to purchase the domain names CreatingTheFuture.com/.org. We have almost doubled last week’s total – a huge leap forward! After some last-minute giving via Facebook and Twitter, the total in the Domain Campaign fund is (drumroll please…) $3,000 exactly! (Thanks to some folks … Read more
This was just going to be a quick post to update everyone on our progress in raising money to purchase the domain names CreatingTheFuture.org and .com. But something happened this morning that moved me so deeply, that I wanted to share. So first, I hope you will bear with me as I share a story. … Read more
The following is a post that CharityChannel CEO Steve Nill posted to CharityChannel’s Consultants forum this morning, as he considered the work we are proposing with the CDI Demonstration Project. Because CharityChannel is only available by paid subscription, Steve had copied his post into the comments here. After re-reading Steve’s thought-filled post several times, I … Read more
So much of the discussion of yesterday’s Name Change blog post happened in the comments, that I’m making this a separate post. If you haven’t read those comments, please do so here. The conversation truly took my breath away. In that discussion you will see that we are going to move forward to raise money … Read more