Creating your Mission Statement

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"If you don't know where you're going, it doesn't matter which way 

 you go."
Cheshire Cat, Alice in Wonderland

The all important mission statement is the most foundational business planning you will do for your budding creative reuse center. It will encapsulate your purpose and identity.  It will justify your raison d'etre. It will inform all of your activities and programming. Having a carefully crafted mission statement will have a significant pay-off for the life of your organization. And, at the end of this process, you will know where you're going.

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Nonprofit? For Profit? Hybrid?

Here’s where we get all businessy and start talking about establishing yourself as a business. After all, a creative reuse center is a legal entity that must be registered with the government and Internal Revenue Service. Since you’ve had an opportunity to identify your passion to start a creative reuse center, the time to tap into it is when things get a little dry and left-brained. 

Do you have a technique for keeping focused on your dream?  Use it!

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What is your passion?

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And, what's passion got to do with it?  

We all have strong, compelling feelings. Our temperaments, personalities, experiences, skill sets and preferences inform our passions. For the most part our passion is intuitive, powerful and difficult to quantify. The root of our passion can reach deeply into childhood or a family legacy.

Passion plays an important role in establishing a creative reuse center. Without a compelling drive, it's difficult to stay the course when it gets bumpy. And at times it will get plenty bumpy, but that’s another chapter. Consider how tempting it can be to bail out of a situation when nothing seems to be going right. You’ll need an anchor to hang on to during the challenging times. Enthusiasm and passion for the work make up that anchor.

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