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Community Impact Edition!
This
month’s focus is all about community - community results, community
impact, community focus. Because after all, the only reason we all do the work
we do is to make our communities healthier, more vibrant, more humane, more
engaged. We hope you find useful information for creating the future of your
own community! |
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Please welcome
the newest member of Creating the Future’s blog team - Nancy
Iannone!
Nancy is a
former ED, a grassroots board member, an elected School Board member, a
consultant and an overall community change agent.
In this post,
Nancy shares 3 simple questions to help any group, no matter how small, create
huge impact in your community.
A
Simple How-to
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4
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This month's
video is a 4 minute how-to on the power of a Community-Focused
Vision.
In just 4
minutes, organizational consultant and community organizer Gayle Valeriote
shows how having that vision - and putting it to use - can build strength into
your community AND your organization!
Simple How-to video
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Article:
Think Big |
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Nobody
cares about your organization.
What if
that’s true? And if it IS true, then what DO they care
about?
A post by Hildy
Gottlieb, to get your mind to Think Big.
Think BIG
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While
You Commute... |
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Does the
question of evaluating real community change leave you scratching your head?
Are you tired of measuring things that don’t seem to
matter?
Then you will
want to hear what the Annie E. Casey Foundation's Tom Kelly has to say about
evaluating the things that really matter.
Listen
here
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What
Would You Do? |
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Case Study: When
program leaders realize that creating more impact would mean completely
changing their operations, what should they do?
Creating the
Future has been wrestling with just that question, as we realized we can create
significantly more impact in communities if we make a sweeping change to our
immersion programs.
What would you do?
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Cool
Distraction |
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Neil deGrasse
Tyson and Jon Stewart talk about Creating the Future.
Seriously.
(Watch to the
end for the best punchline ever!)
Be inspired!
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Thank you, as always, for the work
you do to make your communities better places to live. We wish for you all the
possibilities life holds. |
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