This brief video explains how Due East started out, got its name, and created its own strategic direction. Credit to The Hatcher Group.

I rarely watch movies twice except around the holidays, when rewatching the same movie for the 30th time somehow feels like tradition. I happened to catch the tail end of The Martian the other night, and was struck by how relevant that story is to our own “supernatural” experience of living in 2022.

When I first started as the executive director of a fledgling community foundation, I dreaded the idea of a strategic planning process. The word “process” sounded like a lot of time and money. Our small team was already stretched thinly, and financially, we were operating on barely more than a month-to-month budget.