by Carlo Cuesta | Sep 9, 2012 | Board Engagement, Branding and Communications, Collaboration
You want to help your board members to engage around building influence and inspiring commitment for your organization? At your next board retreat, focus the conversation around these three key elements: The shared passion the everyone on the board holds for the...
by Carlo Cuesta | Sep 8, 2012 | Branding and Communications, Collaboration
Creation In Common’s approach to nonprofit branding is based on one-on-one brand assessments we have conducted with over 250 organizations as well as several client engagements across multiple fields within the sector. If you are interested in learning more...
by Carlo Cuesta | Sep 4, 2012 | Branding and Communications, Collaboration
For the Nonprofit Quarterly’s Winter 2012 edition, Creation In Common’s Carlo Cuesta writes: When the web emerged, in the 1990s, it was a seminal moment for the nonprofit community. The possibilities of enabling communication, interaction, and transaction...
by Carlo Cuesta | Dec 6, 2011 | Collaboration
Several year’s ago I was facilitating a meeting when the president of the organization said… “We are not who we are.” That odd statement codified what everyone was feeling in the room—lost. Somewhere along the organization’s journey it got detoured and ended up in a...
by Carlo Cuesta | Jun 11, 2011 | Board Engagement, Collaboration, Creativity and Innovation
At the first board meeting I ever attended, the only person who spoke was my boss, the executive director. Driving back to the office, she asked me what I thought of the meeting. I told her the board was not very engaged. She agreed and said, “I just don’t know how to...
by Carlo Cuesta | May 26, 2011 | Board Engagement, Collaboration, Creativity and Innovation
Here’s a simple way to find out. In a middle of a board meeting, look at the people around the table and ask yourself: Does the quality of this discussion match the quality of people? Granted, “quality” is fairly subjective. Yet, it is pretty easy to...
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