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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...
Communication & Transparency – Commonweal Theatre Company
https://youtu.be/t_ucDFNcrKI Shared Creativity Stories #02 In our second installment of Shared Creativity Stories, Hal Cropp, Executive Director of Commonweal Theatre Company, speaks to the importance of communication and transparency with all of their stakeholders....
Strengthening Community – Pangea World Theater
This is the first installment of a video series we are launching called Shared Creativity Stories. https://youtu.be/UWhkT_l-7uk Shared Creativity Stories - #01 "There is no mystery in how to create community" says Pangea World Theater's artistic director Dipankar...
Workshop Recording: Adaptive Strategy Map – April 21, 2020
The Adaptive Strategy Map is part of our Moving Beyond This Crisis series. Go here to view more resources and download the map packet. On April 21, twenty nonprofit leaders joined us online to learn more about the Adaptive Strategy Map crafted by Creation In Common....
Recovery Is About the Commitments We Make Together
This is the fourth post in our series Moving Beyond This Crisis. Go here to read about the Adaptive Strategy Map. By Carlo M. Cuesta When we experience scarcity we begin to tunnel— hunker down and get hyper focused on how to solve the immediate problem before us. This...
Adaptive Strategy Map – A Tool to Help Nonprofits Move Beyond This Crisis
Go here to download our free Adaptive Strategy Map packet. On April 21 and 23, we are offering a webinar on how to make use of the map. Please go here for more information. Through our connections with nonprofit leaders across the country, we recognize how hard it is...
Now is the Becoming
This is the second post in our series Moving Beyond This Crisis. Go here to read the first -- Hope Is At Our Front Door. By Carlo M. Cuesta Meena Natarajan and Dipankar Mukhergee, who lead Pangea World Theater, embraced the moment and consciously took a pause....
Hope Is At Our Front Door
This post is part of our Moving Beyond the Crisis series. By Carlo M. Cuesta In the middle of the night my cousin Michele posted on Facebook how she was having another sleepless night. Out of the darkness came a soft and kind reply from our friend, Donna, who we both...
Mission: A Superhero’s Guide
Words & Drawings by Carlo M. Cuesta
Social Sector Leadership for Our Time
By Carlo M. Cuesta "These are the times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed. The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. Great...
To Imagine…Together: Vision Lived through an Ensemble
By Carlo M. Cuesta Early in my career I was a theater director. My approach was to be as collaborative as possible while still conveying my vision about the play. I had a picture in my mind’s eye of how it would all go, like a film running inside my head. My job, as...
Evaluating a Complex Collaboration: WE ARE WATER
https://vimeo.com/310858804 WE ARE WATER MN is a unique collaboration among the Minnesota Humanities Center, the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, the Minnesota Historical Society, and the Minnesota Departments of Agriculture, Health, and Natural Resources. Through...