Creating the Future

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“CONTINUED FROM PAGE 2 - ACCOMPLISHMENTS RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT Theory of Change CATALYTIC THINKING - Published in draft form for public comment, 35 people volunteered to be part of the review team. Restructuring - Began discussions to restructure the organization, to best ensure we can accomplish our mission. Published article in Stanford Social Innovation Review comparing traditional organizations to movements. Website - Convened experts and users in online strategy conversations to redesign website as a tool for success of a movement. Crowdsourced education platform as part of that strategy, sharing our experience with the new platform via blog posts, to share the learning. EDUCATION Taught 5-day immersion course 9 participants, 3-day graduate seminar 8 participants 2 fellows taught the class, 6 FlashClasses 115 participants, 2 Continuum of Potential graduate level classes 12 participants. Presented workshops in Portland Collective Enoughness, 200 attendees and Montreal Catalytic Thinking, 30 attendees. Presented 4 video podcasts see details at website for topics. Published articles in Stanford Social Innovation Review Movements vs Organizations, Open Participatory Leadership and the Foundation Centers blog Open Participatory Leadership. New Immersion Curriculum - Developed first class in 5-course online curriculum, to replace our in-person 5 day immersion course. Catalytic Thinking 101 6 weeks of self-paced reading/viewing videos, followed by 18 hours of class time over 6 weeks. 21 leaders in business, nonprofit, government, foundation, consulting, academia participated in BETA course. Faculty Development - 4 new instructors trained to teach the new online immersion course. Taught the BETA and scheduled to teach 102 course as it is developed in 2016. DEMONSTRATION Two Creating the Future internal initiatives were demonstrations via Creating the Futures open participation - Web Strategy conversations and Organizational Restructuring. All aspects of those discussions demonstrate how asking different questions leads to more powerful results. Supported one of Creating the Futures fellows in proposing for a Robert Woods Johnson Foundation community demonstration project. While we did not get the grant, we demonstrated to our fellows that this is their organization, with resources to support their own community initiatives. Began planning for the Sharing Stories initiative. creating a platform for people to share stories of Catalytic Thinking in Action. CONVENING AND ENGAGING In-person convenings - Portland City Club 200 community leaders, Portland conversation between grantmakers and community members, Portland Executive Directors Training Program, Willamette Valley Development Officers 200 attendees, Montreal Next Edge Festival. Facebook group for Community Benefit Consultants - 4 moderators facilitated hundreds of individual discussions with almost 1,000 comments during 2015. Community members consistently identify this as their go-to group of peer advisors. INFRASTRUCTURE AND SUPPORT Moved from renting office space to 100 virtual organization, eliminating almost all non-personnel overhead expense October 2015. In 2015 we accomplished far too much in all four areas of our mission to share in the small space of this form. To see how we helped people ask questions that are changing the world, see the supplemental info at http//creatingthefuture.org/2015-program-successes/”