Open, Participatory Leadership At Creating the Future, all our strategy meetings and board meetings are open for anyone to not only watch, but participate in fully. Because our decision-making is all done by consensus, our community members add to the discussion AND become part of the actual decision-making. You’ll find guidelines for participating in our … Read more
Leadership & Bylaws What does it make possible when the leaders of social change organizations see themselves as leading a movement vs. an organization? And importantly, what does it take to be that kind of leader? Being an experiment to see how much change we can effect to create a more humane world requires that … Read more
The July 2016 Creating the Future board meeting will focus on legal compliance. • While Creating the Future is in transition from one organizational structure to the next, are we remaining in compliance with the law? With our own bylaws? • If not, what will we do about that? Warning: If you’re thinking this is a … Read more
Creating the Future is reinventing itself, to ensure our organizational structure is not only supporting our efforts to accomplish our mission, but is modeling our vision and values in every way. The following summarizes our efforts through the end of 2015, as we head into our January 2016 meeting on the subject. For a complete … Read more
Creating the Future is at a jumping off point – a point where the results of our work are poised to scale exponentially to accomplish our mission. To facilitate that leap forward, on November 5th our community began discussing the question of organizational structure. (Watch or download and listen to that meeting here.) What form … Read more
In preparation for this Monday's upcoming board meeting, there are two reports to help bring everyone to the same page. The first is a summary of this year of considering the board's legal obligations – a year of foundational conversations that will have impact on how this organization does its work from this point forward. … Read more
Creating the Future's board meeting will happen right here on Monday, April 14th at 1pm EDT. Scroll to the bottom of this post to watch it live. To share your ideas, questions, and observations, tweet to the hashtag #CTFuture. Board Packet Materials: • Agenda • Agenda video • Board Report: Video This month Creating the … Read more
Our January 2014 board meeting is Monday, January 13 at 1pm ET(NA). To join in the conversation, watch for the video stream to appear at the end of this post. To ask questions, to share observations, to participate as part of our community – tweet to us using the hashtag #CTFuture. For the video describing the … Read more
During its December meeting (for context, see this post summarizing our November meeting, and this post announcing our upcoming January meeting), Creating the Future’s board addressed this question: What will it take for the board – and individual board members – to hold themselves accountable for accomplishing the organization’s mission? The result of that question … Read more
Our August board meeting will be Monday, August 12 at 1pm ET(NA) right here. To join in the conversation, watch for the video stream to appear at the end of this post. (There will be no video there until the meeting begins. If it's 1pm or a few minutes after, and there is no video, … Read more