Current e-Journal – January 14, 2025 What actually creates social change? Our first podcast interview of this new year is filled with ideas and inspiration from one of the most dedicated and inspiring leaders we know. Yodit Mesfin Johnson is the CEO of Nonprofit Enterprise at Work (NEW), a movement support organization in southeast Michigan. … Read more
Current e-Journal – January 7, 2025 How to Plan in Uncertain Times In this week’s Systems Change Newsletter… Invitations and Announcements Catalytic Thinking Exercise: How to Plan in Uncertain Times Resources to Further Your Practice Invitations & Announcements Integrity Conversation Next Monday’s Integrity conversation (aka our board meeting) will review our accomplishments in 2024 and … Read more
Current e-Journal – December 26, 2024 Gifts from us to YOU What a year it’s been! We hope you are taking this week between the holidays to visit with friends and family. Perhaps to watch cheesy Hallmark movies. And mostly, to rest. That’s why our team pulled together some things to entertain and help you … Read more
Current e-Journal – December 3, 2024 This is WAY better than Giving Tuesday In this week’s Systems Change Newsletter… Catalytic Thinking Exercise: Giving Tuesday and Collective Enoughness Resources to Further Your Practice Catalytic Thinking Exercise: Giving Tuesday and Collective Enoughness It’s time for our annual post about Giving Tuesday! And as we do every … Read more
Current e-Journal – November 26, 2024 What if it’s really just about LOVE? In this week’s Systems Change Newsletter… Invitations and Announcements Catalytic Thinking Exercise: What if it’s really just about LOVE? Resources to Further Your Practice Invitations and Announcements Nonprofit Killer Bill in the U.S. Congress Before we dive into our normal newsletter, we … Read more
Current e-Journal – November 12, 2024 A post-election note from Hildy Dear friends, We had planned a different newsletter for this week. But as has happened for so many of us, nothing is as we had planned. Or as we had hoped and worked towards. I have a whole lot of observations. About race … Read more
Current e-Journal – November 5, 2024 What DO you have control over? In this week’s Systems Change Newsletter… Invitations and Announcements Catalytic Thinking Exercise: What DO you have control over? Resources to Further Your Practice Invitations & Announcements The Creating the Future Podcast! What does it take to create sweeping, visionary, systemic change? That is … Read more
Current e-Journal – October 29, 2024 What actually creates change? We’ll get to the point quickly in this newsletter: We’ve launched the Creating the Future podcast! The podcast focuses on the most important question for folks in the social change arena: What actually creates change? If we want a future that is more humane, more … Read more
Current e-Journal – October 22, 2024 The Problem with Evaluation In this week’s Systems Change Newsletter… Invitations and Announcements Catalytic Thinking Exercise: The Problem with Evaluation Resources to Further Your Practice Our Final Webinar of 2024! Next week Creating the Future will host our final webinar of 2024: Unlocking Your Board’s Potential with Catalytic Thinking. … Read more
Current e-Journal – October 15, 2024 Asking for what you really want In this week’s Systems Change Newsletter… Invitations & Announcements Catalytic Thinking Exercise: Asking for what you really want Resources to Further Your Practice Invitations & Announcements Grant-writing: A Different Approach On October 23rd we will apply Catalytic Thinking to grant proposals – and we … Read more