Follow Up

CI Workshop-centred Process

Follow Up Phase

After reviewing the Workshop Digest, the Board or Executive Director determine how the organization should go about completing four follow up tasks. The Creative Initiatives Foundation encourages grant recipients to employ a business consultant or to seek the help of a non-profit service agency to help it carry out the four follow-up tasks.

Phase 3 Tasks

The Board or Executive Director to determine how the organization should go about completing these four follow up tasks:

1.	Establish the workshop parameters
2.	Information gathering
3.	Information analysis and synthesis
4.	Workshop preparation

1.	Define the organization's current state and paradigms
2.	Create the Vision and develop a desired future state
3.	Identify gaps and rank them by importance
4.	Develop creative initiatives to close the gaps
5.	Prepare a Digest that documents the workshop inputs, outputs and next steps

1.	Select the most practical initiatives in the light of competing needs and resources
2.	Develop a strategic plan and action plans for achieving the Vision
3.	Implement the plans
4.	Evaluation and quality review

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The degree to which an organisation is able to demonstrate its willingness and capability to follow through on the workshop outputs has a significant influence on whether the organisation will qualify for a Creative Initiatives Workshop grant.

The Foundation encourages facilitating business consultants to reduce their fees or to donate their time or in order to help NPOs successfully implement workshop outputs. Click here to view other ways an NPO or NGO might get help.

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Follow Up

CI Workshop-centred Process

Follow Up Phase

Phase 3 Tasks