Creation In Common, LLC

Creation In Common is a team of strategic facilitators who help people lead and create together. For 20 years we have worked with regional and national nonprofits, foundations, and government agencies on organizational assessment, strategic planning, organizational development, collaboration advancement, and resource development projects. Collaboration is at the center of what we do and we pride ourselves on deeply connecting with and helping to strengthen communities through shared creativity. 

Some of our projects over the last 18-months have included:

• Working on the Phase 1A rollout of COVID-19 Vaccines for health professionals, front-line workers, and older adults
• Advancing the development of a new referral website to assist families in identifying early-childhood resources
• Facilitating a national inter-disciplinary think tank on the potential and future of craft in America 
• Developing efforts to amplify the voice of individuals and families who are accessing or seeking to access emergency food services 
• Leading strategic planning, organizational development, and evaluation projects with Arab American National Museum, Feeding America, Houston Food Bank, and We Are Water - a partnership of the Minnesota Humanities Center, the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, the Minnesota Historical Society, and the Minnesota Departments of Agriculture, Health, and Natural Resources

Creation In Common is a minority and women-owned business certified by the State of Minnesota. We are a small yet nimble company with a team of five staff and four contractors. The work we do is very challenging, fun, and meaningful. Below are the values that our team strives to live each day. 

See Strengths First

• Giving people the opportunity to share their strengths in their way
• Making abundance possible by harnessing everyone’s strengths 
• Embracing strengths over power

We Are Colleagues

• Always supporting each other and investing in our team
• Matching care for the team with achieving greater impact for our clients
• Engaging each other not by title or role, but as a partner and colleague

Make Inclusion a Priority

• Making sure that individuals and communities we work with get to shape the strategy and services that impact their future
• Creating environments that are welcoming, safe, and engage people to contribute in the ways that best represent who they are
• Never making someone feel “othered”

Co-Create Through Every Interaction 

• Creative collaboration among our whole team
• Including clients and key stakeholders as part of the collaboration to advance capacity
• Creating environments and situations where people feel fully engaged to develop solutions that impact their lives

Share Stories that Transform

• Being accurate in our facts and creative in our storytelling
• Actively seek out stories that rarely get heard
• Amplifying people’s voices through their own unique stories