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Data Collection: The Effective, Versatile Survey
Data can be a powerful tool to help nonprofits, both large and small, gather information and feedback from clients, guests, audiences, beneficiaries, and even their own board and staff members. However, many organizations are unsure how to collect that data. Creation...
Welcome, Laura!
Please join us in welcoming our newest team member — Laura Venhaus! Laura will support Bryn and the team on research and evaluation projects with the Minnesota Department of Health, Minnesota Humanities Center, and the Schubert Club. Laura has a broad array of...
Managing Growth: The Power of Cross-Functional Leadership Teams
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...
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...
Resilience: Great Plains Food Bank
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....
Communications Tool: Simplify Your Organizational History
Anyone who has ever had to write a bio will likely agree: writing about yourself can be hard. The same is true for nonprofit organizations. And yet an organizational history is very useful for writing grants, for onboarding new staff and board members, and for...
A Year of Shared Creativity
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
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
https://youtu.be/r5HnWm2zgEQ 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...
New Clients: Penland School of Craft and Climate Generation
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,...
Welcome Lindsey and Congrats Bryn
Creation In Common is excited to announce the addition of Lindsey Burdick to our team. Lindsey joins us as our new project associate and will oversee client coordination and scheduling as well as serve as a co-facilitator on specific team projects. Lindsey...
Collaboration Through This Time – Tofte Lake Center & Leslie Parker Dance Project
https://youtu.be/WkpDSg1zPfk Episode #03 In our third installment of Shared Creativity Stories, Leslie Parker of Leslie Parker Dance Project and Liz Engelman of Tofte Lake Center talk about discovering collaboration and coalition building during a time of great change...