by laurav | Sep 17, 2026 | Collaboration, Creativity and Innovation, Uncategorized
Here’s a key exercise you should do as a CEO or Executive Director before starting a strategic planning process: turn your organizational chart upside down. Take it into your next leadership team meeting. At the new top of the chart, focus on your frontline staff —...
by laurav | Aug 5, 2026 | Collaboration, Creativity and Innovation, Uncategorized
One of the most common things we hear during strategic planning is: “We don’t want to just wallpaper new strategy over the old.” Organizations know the real challenge isn’t adding new priorities. It’s deciding what no longer belongs. In a sector built on commitment...
by laurav | Jul 23, 2026 | Collaboration, Creativity and Innovation, Uncategorized
Systems are at the core of social impact work. A food shelf’s intake system affects dignity. A clinic’s data system affects whole-person care. A nonprofit’s internal workflow affects whether staff can stay focused on the community or spend their day chasing...
by laurav | Jul 8, 2026 | Collaboration, Creativity and Innovation, Uncategorized
The future of the social impact sector will not be built on the backs of exhausted people performing acts of daily heroism. For years, many social impact organizations survived because extraordinary people did extraordinary things. They worked late. Covered for vacant...
by laurav | Jun 22, 2026 | Collaboration, Creativity and Innovation, Uncategorized
For a while, many of us believed we were living through a transitory storm. When the pandemic arrived, we adapted. We improvised. We worked harder than we thought possible. We told ourselves that if we could just get through this moment, things would settle down. But...
by Carlo Cuesta | Mar 18, 2026 | Collaboration, Creativity and Innovation, Uncategorized
At the end of a long strategic planning retreat, there’s a moment our team at Creation in Common has come to recognize well. The room is tired—deeply, honestly tired—from a day spent in creative collaboration. People have stretched beyond their usual roles, listened...
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