Creating the Future’s Board / Community Meeting: Monday, February 8th, from 10am – 12pm Pacific time NOTE: Per the agreements in our bylaws, the board will go into closed session to address a personnel matter prior to the regular meeting. The regular meeting will begin late, after the closed session is over. Topic: What does … Read more
What a year we’ve all been through! With a new year on the horizon, congratulations for making it to the 2020 finish line! Each day in 2020, we were honored to first help our Creating the Future family (you!) breathe and find calm, and then from there, to step into what is possible. Here is … Read more
About a year ago, our board determined its most important role would be to ensure the actions of the organization are walking the talk of our values… an Integrity Board. To that end, we first encoded that role into our bylaws, creating plain English bylaws that describe how decisions are made, by whom, and according … Read more
Current e-Journal – How to make YOUR organization more OPEN In this eJournal, you’ll find the mechanics of… * Open meetings (and the invitation to our upcoming meeting re: Racial Equity) * Openness and the 990 * Openness and Bylaws Openness is embedded in Creating the Future’s DNA. We have described the multitude of benefits … Read more
Creating the Future’s Board / Community Meeting: Monday, July 13th from 10am – 12pm Pacific time Topics: 1) Bylaws Guiding Documents for Accomplishing our Mission 2) Ensuring Racial Equity as an “Integrity Board” Logistics: The meeting will happen right here at this post. Details are below. Watch the meeting HERE on Monday. Just scroll to … Read more
Creating the Future’s “Socially Distanced” Board / Community Meeting: Monday, April 27, 2020 10am – 12pm Pacific time Topic: How Are You Doing? And What’s Next? Logistics: The meeting will happen right here at this post. Details are below. Logistics: The meeting will happen right here at this post. Details are below. Watch the meeting … Read more
Current e-Journal – February 23, 2020 Imagine the possibilities if every system you encountered was aimed at bringing out the best in you! Helping You Create Systems Change Creating the Future’s mission is to help you change the systems you encounter every day, making those systems more humane, all via the questions you ask. So many of the … Read more
Creating the Future is at an exciting jumping off point, to scale the impact of our mission as broadly as possible. And we want YOU to be part of that! Creating the Future’s mission is to help you change the systems* you encounter every day, through the questions you ask. So many of the systems … Read more
If there were no such thing as organizations as we currently know them, what would we build to accomplish social missions and propel social change forward? For the past four years, this question has been at the heart of our board’s discussions.* Because Creating the Future is a grounds for experimenting with systems change, this … Read more
Experimenting with Creating the Future Calling all organizational development geeks! Creating the Future is one big experiment. Not only do we experiment out in the world, we are also an experiment ourselves, testing new approaches to make our own day-to-day work more effective. And because all our work is open and participatory, you can be … Read more