ARE:A Renewal Enterprise

Who Is Giving Thanks For You Today?

What - and who - are you thankful for today? None of us got where we are on our own steam. If you're anything like us, you've been influenced, inspired, mentored, challenged, educated, and given a shot to try something new by countless people throughout your life.

3 Maligned Mice

The way business is done hasn't changed much since about 1850. In way too many of our organizations - nonprofit and for-profit alike - there is still the equivalent of the cigar-chomping, corner-office-dwelling, big guy with the biggest salary who gets to have the biggest voice. The guy might not actually be a guy today, although most still are. But you get the picture.  

Encouraging Innovation In "Enterprise Zones"

Across every sector of this economy, people are dreaming new dreams about how to create organizations and movements that are vital, sustainable, purposeful and reproducing. Here's a voice from within the mainline church who argues for "enterprise zones" where new ideas could turn into experimental projects and processes for the sake of figuring out how to be and do church in this new century. The author references one of our favorite bloggers, Seth Godin, as he writes about the value of creating space where "pilot projects" can take place: