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The Canoe Group - Nonprofit Resources For Today's Realities

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We don't sell canoes. We help you think better.

Based in Portland, Oregon, The Canoe Group provides non-profit consulting in the areas of strategic plans, strategic communications, program assessment, and information technology.

• Added on: Sep 12th, 2008
• Country: United States
• Language: English

• Author: The Canoe Group
• Listed in: Innovation Arts
• Tags: non profit organizations non profit marketing nonprofit consulting nonprofit consultants non profit management non profit leadership

Recent Posts

• Oregon’s Bill Of Creative Rights: A Platform For Change

  Posted on Wednesday November 26th, 2008 at 09:00 in political campaign, community engagement, strategic communications, oregon arts education congress, arts education policy, oregon arts education

  There’s no time like the present for pragmatic optimism.  So last week, paddling through the eddies of our recent election, we helped the Oregon Arts Commission launch the 1st Annual Oregon Arts Education Congress. The Canoe Group kept getting...

• It takes a village… the unveiling

  Posted on Monday November 24th, 2008 at 18:51 in community engagement, oac, lake oswego library, arts council of lake oswego, oregon arts education congress

  I never cease to be amazed by what can be accomplished when people come together with open hearts and open minds. If you have been reading my blogs, you know that I have been doing volunteer work with the Arts Council of Lake Oswego.  One of our new...

• Acting Like We Know What We Know

  Posted on Wednesday November 5th, 2008 at 14:41 in strategic planning, non profit management

  I have a dear friend who is a very gifted strategic thinker and facilitator.  Several years ago, when we were working at the same non-profit organization in southern Oregon, she said something that kinda rocked my world: “Let’s act as if we know...

• Six Suggestions To Stimulate Value At Your Next Board Retreat

  Posted on Tuesday November 4th, 2008 at 09:36 in non profit management

  The Fall/Winter 2008 issue of Oregon Humanities arrived in the mail with a series of articles about civil discourse, one featuring comments by David Gutterman, a political science professor at Willamette University (and surprisingly a teacher for our...

• Information Technology - Luddite no more

  Posted on Wednesday September 17th, 2008 at 10:42 in information technology, ted talks, novamind, ted.com, the canoe group, the j stroke

  It started for me with TED. John Jay at Wieden+Kennedy explained “TED talks” to me at a planning retreat I was facilitating last winter.  He was enthused.  “I download them and listen to them when I need inspiration,” he sai...

• It takes a village… part two

  Posted on Friday September 12th, 2008 at 01:16 in community engagement, the canoe group, arts council of lake oswego, deborah elliott, lake oswego farmer's market, lake oswego librry

  If you read my first blog, you know that I have been doing volunteer work with the Arts Council of Lake Oswego and that I’m really excited about one of our public art projects – the Whimsical Flower Garden at the Lake Oswego Library. Last Saturda...

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