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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...
Join Our Team: Research Internship
Creation In Common, a 16-year old strategic services consulting firm working with regional and national nonprofits, foundations, and government agencies, is seeking a bright, highly-motivated, self-starter who wishes to advance their knowledge and expertise in the...
Strength Over Power: Framing Healthy Board Engagement in Fundraising
By Carlo M. Cuesta Most board members and volunteers have an unhealthy relationship to fundraising. They often place it within the context of having or not having enough power (personal wealth, connections, and influence). “Do I know enough wealthy people?”...
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