Creation in Common Founder and Managing Partner, Carlo Cuesta, discusses how organizations experiencing rapid or unexpected growth can benefit from the work of a cross-functional leadership team.  Why is cross-functional leadership such a focus for Creation in Common right now?  Over the past five years we’ve seen a surprising amount of rapid growth among nonprofits, […]

By Dana M. Gillespie Soon after the world started falling apart — with the pandemic, the isolation, the murder of George Floyd, and the uprising that came after — I had a deeply touching experience. We live about a mile away from the police precinct that became the hot zone. We had watched on the […]

Located in Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina, the Penland School of Craft is considered to be one of the foremost craft schools in the world. Penland offers one-, two-, and eight-week workshops in bookmaking, paper, clay, drawing, glass, iron, metals, photography, printmaking, letterpress, textiles, and wood. Its mission is to support individual and artistic […]

Creation In Common is excited to announce the addition of Lindsey Burdick to our team. Lindsey joins us as our new project associate and will oversee client coordination and scheduling as well as serve as a co-facilitator on specific team projects.  Before joining Creation In Common, Lindsey served as a science educator and curriculum writer […]

In our third installment of Shared Creativity Stories, Leslie Parker of Leslie Parker Dance Project and Liz Engelman of Tofte Lake Center talk about discovering collaboration and coalition building during a time of great change and transformation.