by Carlo Cuesta | May 14, 2021 | Creativity and Innovation, Great Nonprofit Examples
As an organization that’s deeply committed to ending hunger throughout North Dakota and Western Minnesota, Great Plains Food Bank was familiar with trauma and crises. Among the 102,000 people it served, many struggled daily just to survive. And then came the pandemic....
by Carlo Cuesta | May 13, 2021 | Collaboration, Creativity and Innovation, Great Nonprofit Examples, Shared Creativity Stories
By Dana M. Gillespie Dana Gillespie and Carlo Cuesta, Co-Founders of Creation In Common 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...
by Carlo Cuesta | May 13, 2021 | Creativity and Innovation, Great Nonprofit Examples, Shared Creativity Stories, Uncategorized
A familiar refrain at the start of the pandemic was that COVID was a “great equalizer”; that we were all in the same boat. It quickly became apparent that this was not true — we’re all in the same storm, but not the same boat. And while some of our boats are...
by Carlo Cuesta | Jan 26, 2021 | Creativity and Innovation, Great Nonprofit Examples, Inclusion, Shared Creativity Stories
Episode 5 When Wilderness Inquiry had to do the Pandemic Pivot (discovering new ways to pursue its mission), they went in search of the unique strengths of their team to help them create moments of outdoor discovery in a social distanced world. Check out our latest...
by Carlo Cuesta | Jan 18, 2021 | Collaboration, Creativity and Innovation, Great Nonprofit Examples
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,...
by Carlo Cuesta | Dec 15, 2020 | Collaboration, Creativity and Innovation, Shared Creativity Stories, Uncategorized
Episode #03 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...
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