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Accentuate the Positive: Appreciative Inquiry Bibliography
The Creation in Common team embraces positive, strengths-based concepts like Appreciative Inquiry. That’s why Project Associate Laura Venhaus has been compiling a community-building bibliography of models and resources to inform our work....
Creating Together: Celebrating the 20th Birthday of Our Logo!
Twenty years ago, when Managing Partner Carlo Cuesta and graphic designer Mary Brozic came together to develop the Creation in Common logo, we didn’t know exactly where our company would end up. But we knew what we wanted to do: Help people lead and create...
A Finger on the Pulse: Center for Craft 2021 Think Tank and Report
Center for Craft in Asheville, NC fosters new ideas in the field of craft while backing the next generation of makers, curators, and scholars. In October of 2021, they brought together more than a dozen multidisciplinary thought leaders for “Craft Can,” a three-day...
A Revolutionary New Model: Today’s Harvest
Today's Harvest may look much like any other bright, friendly neighborhood market, but it's so much more. Six days a week Today's Harvest shoppers grab a cart and select from a variety of fresh fruits and vegetables, baked goods, meats, dairy products, and more in a...
Case Study: Shop One
Go here to read the report In the fall of 2020, Creation In Common began working with the Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District to re-envision their historic Shop One space on the grounds of the water treatment plant serving Wisconsin capital. Together, with nine...
Congratulations, Lindsey!
We're delighted to announce that our project associate, Lindsey Burdick, was recently promoted to senior associate project manager! Lindsey's interest in project management grew last October when she took the reins on a project to cover for a colleague on...
Think Fast: Rethinking Strategic Plan Implementation
The genesis of Creation in Common's adaptive strategy map provides a great story about how the pandemic has affected those of us who work in and with the nonprofit sector. At its heart, the tale is about capturing the crucial learnings and capabilities that have...
Defining Your Stakeholders
This is excerpt from an online training we conducted that provides a simple approach for how organizations can identify and define their multiple stakeholders.
Meet Julie Sand!
Julie Sand During Creation In Common's earliest days, we contracted Julie Sand to help with a big statewide survey of arts organizations for the Jerome Foundation. We were impressed with her energy, breadth of experience, and her organizational skills. After that,...
Client Spotlight – Center for Craft: Embracing Our Shared Humanity
Center for Craft's National Innovation Hub located in Asheville North Carolina Although "arts and crafts" are often lumped together, they are actually distinct forms of creativity with their own approaches and philosophies, but they can still be hard to define. Now...
Our Three Promises
Strategic facilitation is one of Creation In Common's greatest strengths. We have become very adept at helping people collaborate, connect their ideas, and identify and articulate really tough questions. And then we help them find a way to tackle those...
Finding Our Moonshot: 20 Years of Creation In Common
2002 - Year One of Creation In Common - (l to r) Dana Gillespie, Carlo Cuesta, and Padraic Lillis As Creation In Common celebrates our 20th anniversary this year, we look back to the very beginning, when three theater makers — Dana Gillespie, Carlo Cuesta, and Padraic...