Category Archives: Nonprofit Planning

Building a Program by Engaging Community

On August 1, I embarked on a month of “semi-sabbatical,” writing and exploring and planning and reading.  I say “semi-sabbatical” because I only decided mid-July that the time was right.  So there are still some tasks to be done, some projects with timelines that won’t allow me to simply abandon ship.  This post is about… Continue Reading

Goals for 2010 and Beyond

The vision of the Community Driven Institute is a healthy, vibrant, resilient, peaceful, humane world. To make that vision a reality for all of us, the mission of the Institute is to encourage and support the Community Benefit sector to leverage its considerable resources to do so. In developing our plans for the next 12-24… Continue Reading

Planning to Change the World: 2009′s WOW List

In yesterday’s post, I shared the ambitious goals we had set two years ago, to lay the groundwork for the Community-Driven Institute.  Having founded two prior organizations, we knew it was necessary to lay that firm foundation while our consulting firm was still incubating this new organization. With that nurturing start, the Institute would be… Continue Reading