Creating the Future

“In 2021, creating the future laid groundwork in critical mission areas. For a full description of these accomplishments (in a more readable form) head to - https://creatingthefuture.org/accomplishments-2021/ during our formative years, the founders have chosen to self fund the organization, receiving only small stipends for their more than full time work. This has allowed the organization to focus on program development and proof of concept vs spending all our time raising money. In future years, as the organization scales to accomplish its mission (and must seek funds to do so), full time salaries and additional staff will be added as funds are generated.”

“Expenses advertising 5,820 payroll taxes 3,154 it expenses 2,942 telephone 1,806 computer expenses 1,389 workshop & educational 1,074 administrative expenses 805 volunteer relations 620 office expense 142 community engagement 72 travel 6 total 17,830”

“Credit card & other payables 273 -115 loans from officers 1,587 1,537”

“To show people how to change the systems they find themselves in, to aim those systems at bringing out the best in people, all by changing the questions they ask.”

“Experimenting: applying catalytic thinking to systems change: in 2021, we continued to do demonstration projects, applying catalytic thinking to systems change at 2 different universities, at a large regional food bank, and to the internal systems of board recruitment, resource development, and succession planning at creating the future. We continued research into systems within the social change ecosystem that keep organizations from accomplishing more change, and worked with community-centric fundraising to publish some of the findings from that research. See https://creatingthefuture.org/accomplishments-2021/ for details. Sharing what we learn about catalytic thinking and systems change: taught catalytic thinking at 2 universities; in conferences; in classes and workshops; in practice cohorts and work teams; in our ejournals; in our online consultants community. In addition, because our board meetings are open for anyone to watch and/or participate in, those meetings are one more way we share catalytic thinking in practice. See https://creatingthefuture.org/accomplishments-2021/ for details.”