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...
by Carlo Cuesta | Feb 10, 2026 | Uncategorized
By Carlo Cuesta When I studied to become a theater director, one textbook described human drama in the following equation featuring Person A and Person B: A does to B. B reacts and B adjusts. Then… B does to A. A reacts and A adjusts. As the process between A and B...
by Carlo Cuesta | Oct 7, 2025 | Uncategorized
Power is seductive. It feels like control, like certainty. And in nonprofit leadership, it’s easy to believe that if only we had more of it—more money, more connections, more influence—we could finally do the work we were meant to do. But here’s the paradox:...
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