Creating the Future

“In 2023, creating the future continued to lay groundwork in critical mission areas. For a full description of these accomplishments (in a more readable form) head to - https://creatingthefuture.org/accomplishments- 2023/ 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. Creating the future operates from a place of mutual aid/collective enoughness, that together we have everything we need. The result is a cash budget that does not truly reflect the huge extent of work being done. On the contrary, the organization operates via thousands of volunteer hours and thousands of dollars of shared resources, with fellows around the world spreading the mission in their own way. As a result, describing our work in dollars alone does our work a significant disservice, as the community resources we are activating to do our work are far more applicable to accomplishing our mission. To see the real story behind the numbers, see http://creatingthefuture.org/annotated-990-for-2023/”

“Refunds 1,064 miscellaneous income 242 total 1,306”

“Expenses it expenses 3,239 payroll taxes 2,927 telephone 2,192 workshop & educational 2,078 computer expenses 1,512 travel 905 volunteer relations 842 administrative expenses 461 office expense 89 total 14,245”

“Undeposited funds 240 in the prior year, undeposited funds were not included on the balance sheet and were shown as a reduction in the opening balance of net assets. In the current year, these undeposited funds are included with other assets and the correction for the prior year is shown as an other increase to net assets.”

“Accounts receivable 0 1,085 undeposited funds 0 240 total 0 1,325”

“Credit card & other payables 114 75 expense reimbursement payable 595 2,098”

“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: in 2023, we focused on implementing what our community asked us to accomplish in the final 3 years of our mission. This is a huge experiment in sharing the implementation of our mission, rather than building an ongoing program that needs to be sustained in perpetuity. The work in 2023 was strategic and highliy engaged, inviting our community to determine what's next and how to implement that. In 2023, we also worked with the edmonton chamber of voluntary orgnaizations, applying catalytic thinking to help their community completely eliminate poverty. See https://creatingthefuture.org/accomplishments-2023/ for details.”

“Education programs: we developed new classes this year, and new ways to share those education programs. We developed new self-paced classes and reconfigured older classes. We designed webinars around all our classes - not just the new ones - which were produced by partners in our community and shared with their audiences. See http://creatingthefuture.org/accomplishments-2023/ for details.”