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Congratulations to Laura!
We’re pleased to share with you that CIC team member Laura Venhaus has been promoted to Project Consultant! She’ll continue to work with existing clients on projects that are in progress while taking on a larger role and more responsibility on new projects. You’ll...
Unlocking Your Organization’s Full Potential: The Deep Insights Process
A theater notices a symptom: attendance is declining. They know many of their patrons are seniors, so their hunch is that it might be that the curtain time is too late. Five different audience members have mentioned they’d like the shows to start earlier, so they...
Creating Miracles Every Day: Care and Share Food Bank
In Southern Colorado, one in nine people faces hunger. Care and Share Food Bank works hard to get neighbors the food they need to survive and thrive. Last year they distributed 17 million meals to more than 200,000 people. But they’re committed to doing even more....
Meet Kallie!
We’re happy to introduce our project associate, Kallie Akinola, who joined us in July! Kallie onboards new clients and manages the schedules and deliverables for each of our projects, then analyzes our workload across the entire client portfolio and helps us set goals...
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.