The 100K Project (http://www.100kproject.us) is all about artists and creative workers using their creative superpowers to organize for power, to run for local office (or help someone to run) in order to govern for the common good. Listen to this interview with Dr. Frances McGarry of “First Online with Fran” here. Contact us at info@100kproject.us.
Creative leadership workshop online – Sunday October 4, from 10am-11:30am Central Time. This is part of the national Fall Of Freedom national call to action. No charge. Join here. Let’s NOT have freedom fall, OK? Instead, let’s talk about how artists and creative workers can get some real power to govern for the common good. Let’s talk about how artists can RISE to the occasion as civic leaders, including running for local office and helping others to run. Part of the 100K Project.
Join me on Thursday morning October 1 at 11am Central Time at the Grace Church in Logan Square for a creative and interactive leadership/candidate training workshop! We are the leaders we have been waiting for. This event is part of the Social Justice Theater Festival produced by the Still Point Theatre Collective and is part of the 100K Project. Find out more and register. We are the leaders we have been waiting for!
Super proud to have done this interview with longtime civic and creative scholar Bill Cleveland.
The great folks at The Nonprofit Quarterly have been publishing my essays on the focus and future of America’s nonprofit sector since last December. Here is the latest piece:
Here are the other pieces:
I am super proud and excited to announce that I am co-designing and will be part of the delivery of an amazing eight-week leadership/candidate training program aimed at artists and cultural workers that is being delivered by a partnership between the 100K Project, the National Guild for Community Arts Education, and the Cleveland Arts Education Consortium.
This is a civic leadership program designed to equip artists, cultural workers, and creative organizers with the skills, knowledge, and confidence to campaign and build people power at the state, local, and national levels. The program is via Zoom for two hours, beginning October 9. Learn more.
We are doing our first online leadership/candidate training program for creative workers! Learn more. Watch the information session video below to learn all about this creative, interactive, and powerful learning opportunity.
Read my piece from the Nonprofit Quarterly, “US Nonprofit Sector Documents Its Own Powerlessness. but What Will We Do?” from May of 2025. Answering my own call to action from The Nonprofit Quarterly, I am helping to launch the 100K Project! We seek to recruit, train, and propel 100,000 people from the arts, nonprofit, social services, education, and science sectors (and their supporters) to run for local office or help those with our values run as champions of service, science, justice, equity, peace, creativity, and the public sector. All permitted functions inside the 501 c 3 framework. Read this piece from The Nonprofit Quarterly “From Service to Power – Retooling the Nonprofit Sector.”
The CivicLab is thrilled to host the Chicago version of the Global Card Board Challenge on October 5, from1pm to 4pm.
Watch this video and YOU will want to play with us!
This is a kid’s event and is perfect way for a family to foster imagination and engaged play AND expose kids to design, science, engineering and a whole lot more. There is no charge but you must read the directions and register via EventBrite.
