Creating Meaning

ost nonprofit organizations seek to engage the world to come together to create art (solutions). We celebrate the remarkable. We generously give money and time and information to those whose lives we seek to improve. We make judgment calls - determining how we can attain the most good for the greatest number of people with the limited resources we have. By virtue of working to serve some sector of the population, we aspire to connect people and ideas. Organizationally, we might (at least on paper) have it right. Yet how many of us who work for nonprofits are engaged in the same path of creating meaning?