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GOAL 4
GOAL 4 STEWARD AND NURTURE
Bring people together to catalyze change. Steward and nurture our places, people, relationships, and knowledge to leverage the power of collective creativity for good.
STRATEGY A // Serve Others Through Organizational Volunteerism
Craigardan’s staff and board are active members of local, national, and international groups. We serve on boards, grant-selection panels, advisory boards, and steering committees. As respected leaders in our communities, we uphold the values of Craigardan, and we exemplify its ethos in our personal and professional lives. We will continually reach outward beyond self-interest to participate in timely conversations and serve our communities.
OBJECTIVE 1 // Lead and Advise
Join the advisory councils, boards, and grants panels of complementary organizations and initiatives in order to remain informed and engaged in local and national issues.
OBJECTIVE 2 // Present and Share
Organize, present, and/or facilitate conference panels, community talks, and public presentations to present and share our work and to highlight the work of others.
OBJECTIVE 3 // Create Social Good
Lead and participate in initiatives that promote community building and education, generated through local programs, fundraising, and workshops.
STRATEGY B // Seed Partnerships and Cultivate Networks for Impact
To date, Craigardan has established dozens of active partnerships with individuals, nonprofits, universities, arts collectives, businesses, and private initiatives. These partnerships are often non-traditional, unexpected, and interdisciplinary in nature — resulting in an amplified impact and creative solutions in a short amount of time. We will continue to work beyond silos, be collaborative, and focus on the collective good. We will provide service through leadership, and leadership through service, by moving our concepts out into the world.
OBJECTIVE 1 // Lead Craigardan Programs Offsite
Replicate and adapt the Craigardan experience off-site at new locations with partner organizations. A placebased, interdisciplinary experience that brings people together should be available to everyone.
OBJECTIVE 2 // Collaborate to Amplify Impact
Create new programs for collective impact by engaging peer organizations to help convene and lead crucial conversations, workshops, and trainings. This collaboration allows Craigardan to highlight and make accessible the expertise of others.
OBJECTIVE 3 // Invite Organizations Onsite
Invite other mission-driven, mission-compatible programs, people, or initiatives to bring their work to Craigardan and to do their work on our campus. Welcoming other people, ideas, and organizations to our property will deepen and enrich our own sense of place and possibility, while assisting the creative changework of others.
STRATEGY C // Define and Perpetuate “Craigardan-ness”
Over the course of these next five years, we will continually ask the question: What is “Craigardan-ness”? This is a question without end. Asking this question reflects Craigardan’s process: bringing people together to understand and experience place, to learn and gain new perspectives through interdisciplinary learning, and to use creativity to change the world for the better.
OBJECTIVE 1 // Continue to Bring People Together
Ask: How can initiatives such as The Gardan journal and the Farm Store grow to become effective tools to connect, support, educate, and change? How does our on-site and off-site programming support collaboration and cross-pollination? What are other new, innovative ways we can accomplish this in the future?
OBJECTIVE 2 // Continue to Learn and Gain New Perspectives
Ask: How can we activate alumni? How do our alumni continue their exchange? How do people carry their Craigardan experience out in the world? How do they create change in their own work and in their own spheres?
OBJECTIVE 3 // Continue to Work to Change the World
Ask: How do we understand Craigardan as an active designer of the world we want to see? What are our biases and how do we interrupt them? How do we disrupt institutionalized inequities and engender systems change?
