Creative In Common
Upcoming Training

The Power to Engage the Public: Five Practices that Strengthen Nonprofit Communications

January 21, 9 a.m. to noon – Dallas,Texas

Building strong relationships with your participants and supporters requires a team effort that cuts across all parts of your organization. Effective external communications requires organizational leaders build a workplace culture that empowers board and staff members to speak in a way that engages your different audiences with compelling messages about the unique value you deliver. The goal of this workshop is to introduce executive directors, board leadership, and development/communications staff to five practices that will strengthen your organization's communications effort by building a robust communications' culture.

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Kick Start Your Nonprofit Branding Effort

February 18, 9 a.m. to noon – Maplewood, MN

This workshop is for Board and Staff leadership who are considering a major marketing or communications effort for their organization and need guidance on the best way to get started.

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Skill-building

Our skill-building workshops provide practical tools and techniques for overcoming barriers organizations face everyday. Workshop topics include:

  • Introduction to Nonprofit Branding
  • Branding Your Fundraising Campaign
  • Nonprofit Branding Intensive
  • Community Participation-Building
  • Nonprofit Marketing
  • Building an Engaged Workforce
  • Effective Use of Video in Fundraising (in partnership with AquariesMedia)

We have presented our workshops at the Association of Fundraising Professional Conferences in Montana and South Dakota; Care Providers of Minnesota Annual Convention; Minnesota Planned Giving Conference and Minnesota Council of Nonprofits Annual Convention.

Learn more about our current workshop or contact us to customize a topic to meet your organizational needs.

Breaking Ice

In partnership with Minneapolis' Pillsbury House Theatre, Creation In Common provides client services for Breaking Ice, a dynamic and engaging improvisational-based performance that gets to the heart of difficult issues. Breaking Ice performances dramatize real life situations in a fresh, entertaining and insightful collage of theatre, poetry, music and movement that serve as a thought-provoking catalyst to explore relevant issues of diversity and difference. A facilitated discussion follows the performance.

  • Breaking Ice offers a fresh, enthusiastic approach to educating audiences about aspects of human diversity and difference.
  • Breaking Ice performances are custom-made in consultation with the client to best fit their needs and reach the audience for lasting impact.
  • Breaking Ice promotes understanding that will enhance the work environment.
  • Breaking Ice inspires healthy dialogue around tough issues.

Contact Julia Sand for more information at julia@creationincommon.com or call 612-237-5169