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Managing Growth: The Power of Cross-Functional Leadership Teams

by Carlo Cuesta | Sep 26, 2021 | Collaboration, Creativity and Innovation

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...

Resilience: Great Plains Food Bank

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....

A Year of Shared Creativity

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...

The North 4 Program at Emerge

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...

Discovering Our Team’s Strengths – Wilderness Inquiry

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...

New Clients: Penland School of Craft and Climate Generation

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,...
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